The Dumaguete City police continue to face a blank wall in two hold-up incidents during the weekend involving a housewife and a warehouse.

Elisa Martin, 49, of Brgy. Motong was held up at about 12:50 p.m. Friday at the corner of Sta. Catalina and Locsin streets, while the liquefied petroleum gas warehouse in Tubod, was held up just after noon Sunday.

Martin said she had just withdrawn money from Metro Bank and was riding a pedicab when a motorcycle with three riders overtook the vehicle she was on, and ordered its driver to stop.

She said the backriders pointed a gun at her and grabbed her bag.

The hold-uppers then fled with her bag that contained P100,000 in cash, two cellphones amounting to P7,000, her eyeglasses worth P3,500, assorted coins, and her Metro Bank passbook.

Meanwhile, an unidentified man believed to be in his early 40s entered the LPG bodega at Hibbard Avenue, pretending to be a customer.

Moments after he entered, however, he pulled out a gun and pointed it at warehouse employees Ricky Macadelhig, 29, single, of Siquijor, and Oscar Lagunero, of Manjuyod town, then declared a hold-up.

The lone hold-upper fled on board a motorcycle parked outside the warehouse, police investigations showed.*

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