ANGELES CITY– Police operatives rescued last Tuesday the wife of a Japanese national who was kidnapped for ransom by four suspects who held her in a house in Barangay Paltao in Pulilan, Bulacan.
Central Luzon police director Chief Supt. Arturo Cacdac said the victim, Susana Ishihara, 41, was rescued unharmed last Tuesday, although she was held with her eyes covered, her lips covered with masking tape and her hands tied with nylon ropes when police rescuers found her.
The arrested suspects were identified as the alleged mastermind Evangeline Santos Nissisawa, a Filipina also married to a Japanese, and her accomplices Ronald Fino of Barangay Sta Rita in Guiguinto and Perseus Cruz who owned the house in Barangay Paltao, Pulilan where the victim was found. Another suspect identified as Jonathan Mateo has remained at large.
In a report to Cacdac, Senior Supt. Fernando Villanueva of the Bulacan police said that Ishihara, a resident of Japan, was vacationing in Bugo, Cebu City when her friend Queenie Gamboa introduced her to Nissisawa.
Villanueva said that Nissisawa urged Ishihara to visit her place in Bulacan and that she would host her stay in the province. Ishihara accepted the invitation and last July 11, she, Gamboa and Nissisawa arrived in Manila and stayed there overnight for their trip to Bulacan the following day.
The following day, Mateo arrived on a Honda Civic car with plate No. UMW 570 to pick them up from their hotel in Manila for their trip to Bulacan.
The police report said that after their car exited from the North Luzon Expressway in Pulilan, Bulacan, Mateo stopped and alighted from the car as a motorcycle with two men on board approached. One of the men took the wheel, while the other entered the back compartment and poked his pistol at the woman.
The police said that the men ordered Gamboa to alight from the car before it sped off, leaving behind Gamboa and Mateo.
The report said Gamboa, who suspected Mateo’s involvement in the kidnapping, flagged down a passing Pulilan police mobile patrol who arrested Mateo.
Text messages found in Mateo’s cell phone and more text messages under the direction of investigating policemen yielded information on the location of the house where the suspects held Ishihara, the police said.
The messages also revealed that Nissisawa was the mastermind in the kidnapping.
The suspects did not put up a fight when the police rescuers arrived at about 12:20 a.m. last Tuesday at their hideout in Pulilan. The rescuers arrested the suspects and recovered from the site a replica of a 9 mm. Berreta pistol, P50,000 cash, a handwritten letter demanding P2 million ransom from the victim’s Japanese husband, personal belongings and the victim’s passport, and the car used for the crime.
Central Luzon police director Chief Supt. Arturo Cacdac said the victim, Susana Ishihara, 41, was rescued unharmed last Tuesday, although she was held with her eyes covered, her lips covered with masking tape and her hands tied with nylon ropes when police rescuers found her.
The arrested suspects were identified as the alleged mastermind Evangeline Santos Nissisawa, a Filipina also married to a Japanese, and her accomplices Ronald Fino of Barangay Sta Rita in Guiguinto and Perseus Cruz who owned the house in Barangay Paltao, Pulilan where the victim was found. Another suspect identified as Jonathan Mateo has remained at large.
In a report to Cacdac, Senior Supt. Fernando Villanueva of the Bulacan police said that Ishihara, a resident of Japan, was vacationing in Bugo, Cebu City when her friend Queenie Gamboa introduced her to Nissisawa.
Villanueva said that Nissisawa urged Ishihara to visit her place in Bulacan and that she would host her stay in the province. Ishihara accepted the invitation and last July 11, she, Gamboa and Nissisawa arrived in Manila and stayed there overnight for their trip to Bulacan the following day.
The following day, Mateo arrived on a Honda Civic car with plate No. UMW 570 to pick them up from their hotel in Manila for their trip to Bulacan.
The police report said that after their car exited from the North Luzon Expressway in Pulilan, Bulacan, Mateo stopped and alighted from the car as a motorcycle with two men on board approached. One of the men took the wheel, while the other entered the back compartment and poked his pistol at the woman.
The police said that the men ordered Gamboa to alight from the car before it sped off, leaving behind Gamboa and Mateo.
The report said Gamboa, who suspected Mateo’s involvement in the kidnapping, flagged down a passing Pulilan police mobile patrol who arrested Mateo.
Text messages found in Mateo’s cell phone and more text messages under the direction of investigating policemen yielded information on the location of the house where the suspects held Ishihara, the police said.
The messages also revealed that Nissisawa was the mastermind in the kidnapping.
The suspects did not put up a fight when the police rescuers arrived at about 12:20 a.m. last Tuesday at their hideout in Pulilan. The rescuers arrested the suspects and recovered from the site a replica of a 9 mm. Berreta pistol, P50,000 cash, a handwritten letter demanding P2 million ransom from the victim’s Japanese husband, personal belongings and the victim’s passport, and the car used for the crime.
