KALIBO, Aklan – The suspect in the killing of the RD Pawnshop Kalibo manager-reliever is now being hunted down.
Pawnshop security guard Mark Archie Torrefiel, 31, has left Kalibo. The family of Bonna Hercia Ambay, the victim, is offering a P120 thousand cash reward for his arrest.
Ambay was found dead in the pawnshop located on Mabini Street, Poblacion, Kalibo early morning on June 6.
According to the police who checked his background, Torrefiel, native of Batan, Aklan and temporarily residing in Barangay Cajilo, Makato, Aklan, has been charged with robbery in 2021 in Pasig City and theft in 2015 in Batan. He was also a drug surrenderee of Oplan Tokhang in 2016 in Pasig City.
The 23-year-old Ambay succumbed to stab wounds to the neck, shoulder and chest.
Police investigators believe she was killed between 5 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Sunday, June 5, as she worked in her office. Torrefiel was the scheduled guard on duty that time.
The next day, RD Pawnshop employees and the incoming security guard on-duty discovered Ambay in a pool of blood.
Cops recovered a 21-centimeter knife, a handcuff, coin purse, towel, handbag, and security guard long sleeves, all with bloodstains, in the pawnshop.
Kalibo deputy chief of police for administration Lieutenant Abdon de Mateo said the pawnshop has so far reported the missing mobile phone of Ambay and the manager’s piggy bank with cash valued at P4,000.
From what the police so far gathered, Torrefiel left the pawnshop and went home to Makato, Aklan. Accompanied by his live-in partner, he took a roll on, roll off boat from Caticlan, Malay to Batangas on Sunday evening.
Kalibo deputy chief of police for operations Lieutenant Aubrey Ayon said they are not losing hope to solve the Ambay case.
“Isolated ang kaso. Malinong ang Kalibo, peace-loving ru Kalibonhon,” Ayon said.
Anyone with information on the suspect is encouraged to contact the Kalibo police station at 09399167066, she added./PN
