The police authorities found an abandoned vehicle linked to the disappearances of a Pampanga beauty queen and her boyfriend in Tarlac City. Capas Police Chief LtCol. Librado Manarang said the Tarlac Provincial Office has created a committee on missing persons to expedite the investigation of the disappearances of Pampanga’s Mutya ng Pilipinas candidate Geneva Lopez her fiancée Yitzchak Cohen.
“We are still looking for CCTVs for the backtracking...
Right now, based on the report, operatives found a vehicle in Barangay Tibag, Tarlac City in the Province of Tarlac,” Manarang said in Filipino. “As of now, I still don't have concrete details regarding the abandoned vehicle that was found,” he added. Riding an SUV Lopez, 26, and Cohen, 37, were last seen on 21 June when they left Angeles City, Pampanga, and drove to Capas, Tarlac to check the land property they were planning to purchase.
The couple’s vehicle was discovered burning on 22 June at 2:36 a.m. along the Capas-San Jose Road in Cristo Rey village.
Manarang said authorities had obtained testimony from the middleman who assisted the couple in buying the property. "In the affidavit and testimony, we interviewed the middleman. On June 21, around 2 to 3 p.
m., the middleman met the couple and they went to Barangay Armenia, Tarlac City where they checked the property that the two were going to buy," he said. “The couple met only the middleman in the very area where they are supposed to buy land,” he added.
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