Enter the women.

A female accomplice has joined the all-male snatching groups that have been operating in the streets of Dumaguete City in the last two years.

The first snatching incident involving a female thief took place yesterday morning in Barangay Batinguel.

Rosalina Viliran, 50, a housewife and resident of Barangay Piapi, said she and another woman were in front of the Rainbow Orphanage waiting for a tricycle ride to the city's public market at about 6:30 a.m., when a motorcycle with a man and a woman on board suddenly appeared near them.

Viliran said that as they neared, the unidentified female back-rider grabbed her bag and the motorcycle sped away.

She said the bag contained her SSS, PhilHealth, and NORECO 2 IDs and P400 in cash.

About six hours before that, at about 12:15 a.m. Monday, 14-year-old Jhulleanne Mae Cagang of Locsin Apartment at San Jose Street said she was inside Genesis Internet Café near the Redemptorist Church when an unidentified man entered, grabbed her Nokia 1100 cellphone on the table in her cubicle, and left hurriedly.

Meanwhile, two other women lost a laptop computer and a cellphone in separate snatching incidents recently.

The victims were Cindy Grace Cabio, 25, single of Laguna, Looc, Dumaguete City; and Mary Carleen, 19, single, a student of Saint Paul University and a native of Sta. Catalina, Oriental Negros.

Cabio said she was about to cross Sta. Catalina Street for her vehicle parked in front of the OK Pension at about 10 a.m. Friday when two unidentified men on a motorcycle appeared, and the back-rider suddenly grabbed her P45,000 Unit XDA II laptop computer.

She said she was stunned and failed to shout for help.

On the other hand, Carleen said she was riding a pedicab on her way to her boarding house in Bantayan at about 9:15 p.m. Sunday, when, on reaching St. Paul University, a motorcycle with two riders appeared at her side and the back rider snatched her Nokia 3315 cellphone.*RG

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