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Gun-toting priest captures
would-be thieves
Originally ran here
as:
"Gun-toting priest gets snatchers"
Posted: 7:57 PM (Manila Time) | July 12, 2001
By Alcuin Papa, Inquirer News Service
PHILIPPINES -- A pistol-packing Para�aque parish priest yesterday showed a
father and son team of cell phone snatchers the wrath of a man of God.
Fr. Rico Nobleza, 32, of the Sta. Rita Parish in Para�aque City, was on board a
jeepney going to Baclaran when two men also boarded the jeepney at around 5 a.m.
yesterday.
One of the men, later identified as Manuel Samson, 49, of 119 F. Progreso St.,
Para�aque, sat beside the priest in the front seats. Samson�s son, Christian,
19, sat in the back.
Police learned that Manuel poked a knife at Nobleza and asked for his cell
phone.
"I told him, 'Wait a minute, child, I shall get it from my waist,'"
Nobleza told police.
However, instead of getting his cell phone, the priest pulled out a .45 caliber
pistol and told the Samsons to surrender.
Seeing the pistol, father and son jumped out of the jeepney and ran.
But Nobleza, together with the other male passengers, chased the Samsons and
eventually cornered them. The passengers brought them to the nearest police
station.
At the police station, Manuel and Christian begged the priest not to file
charges against them.
The priest refused and said only God could forgive them for what they had done.
"They should rot in jail for the things they have done," the priest
boomed.
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