Taxi driver arrested due to fake robbery
FAKE ROBBERY – A taxi driver was arrested after it was discovered that he was lying about being victimized by holduppers in Brgy. Carmen, Saturday morning.
He told cops that there were two men with knives who boarded his taxi and allegedly declared robbery taking his P3,700 income.
However, when the authorities conducted an investigation, they found out that the taxi driver’s claims were false.
It was discovered that it was just his alibi because he did not remit his income after losing the money thru gambling.
The driver will be charged with unjust vexation.
The police stated that they will prosecute anyone who spreads false information, particularly if it causes panic in the community.
Last August, a woman who claimed that she was almost kidnapped in Naval, Biliran issued a public apology after confessing that the event was all made up, in short… fake.
The woman went viral after claiming in a video that she was abducted. Her claim spread amid the surge of abduction cases in the country.
In a viral video, a woman from Biliran whose name was withheld claimed that she was almost kidnapped in Naval, Biliran.
Eventually, she issued a public apology after confessing that the event was fake.
According to her, she did it to get the attention of someone close to her. But she denied that it has something to do with love life.
Netizens were enraged by the fiasco she created.
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