Thespian Audie Gemora is the latest victim of a string of thefts at Cultural Center of the Philippines’ parking area.
On the evening of Sep 9, the founder of theater group Trumpets had a meeting with fellow theater actor Carlo Orosa at the CCP Complex.
“I parked in the area fronting CCP’s Little Theater and Artist entrances. It was characteristically dim since only a few of the lamp posts there work. I intentionally parked near a lit post near the ticket booth para safer,” he writes on his Facebook wall.
When he returned to his car at 10pm, the passenger window was smashed and a bag containing a laptop computer, phone charger, checkbook and important documents were gone.
The suspect? One of the streetchildren loitering in the complex.
“We interviewed a small sampaguita boy who told us he’d seen how it’s done…they rub something on the window of a vehicle then turn a lighter on it and the glass shatters,” he writes.
Gemora says, according to the CCP guard, there was a similar incident in a parking area in front of Star City last week.
The carpark is not managed by CCP. It is rented out to Smart Parking which has its own security agency called El Gringo Security Services.
At the police station where Gemora filed a report, they discovered that one of El Gringo’s security guards, Michael Dublin, had a fake license.
“I understand CCP lacks government funding and there is not enough to go around for arts and culture projects as it were but must you scrimp on lamp post bulbs and electricity? Do we need to wait for injury caused by a hold up before allotting a budget for illumination,” writes Gemora.
Read his post below for the complete details of the incident.
Photo by Nixenzo (Wikipedia)
