ONE of the three security guards of Fooda Saver’s Mart on Gen. Maxilom Ave. Ave., Cebu City branch failed in the polygraph test.
“This means, someone is telling a lie,” said Chief Insp. George Ylanan, chief of the Investigation Detective Management Branch (IDMB) of the Cebu City Police Office (CCPO).
Ylanan, however, said he still has to receive the official copy of the test result as he was just initially told about it verbally.
He said he cannot disclose who among security guards Geoffrey Luna, Jesse Rey Bahinting and Niel Zoren Boquecosa of GDS Security Agency failed the test.
Police asked the guards to undergo the polygraph test as part of the “elimination process” in the investigation related to the heist last Monday at Fooda.
The establishment lost some P100,000 in loose change to eight heavily armed robbers, who posed as a team of police operatives responding to an indiscriminate firing alarm, but ended up staging the robbery.
The CCPO had alerted the banks, gasoline stations and malls to watch out for people bringing large amounts of coins for conversion into bills as they might be the ones who victimized the supermarket.
While the polygraph result cannot not be used in court, Ylanan said, it gave him and the rest of the team of investigators from the IDMB and the Theft and Robbery Section “the lead” to further investigate one of the guards.
The two other guards will be eliminated from the scrutiny but will still be asked to issue affidavits as witnesses, Ylanan said.
CCPO Director Patrocinio Comendador, who was interviewed earlier yesterday, said they have found “significant information” that may help them identify the group behind the heist.
He said he cannot discuss the information further as it is still subject to verification.