ANGELES CITY — Two men who identified themselves as National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) agents were arrested Wednesday by the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) in an entrapment after an alleged extortion try in Maharajah, Anunas, this city.

Senior Superintendent Marvin V. Bolabola, regional chief of the CIDG, said that the arrest of the suspects – Reynaldo Silva of 4093 Amsic, Angeles City, and Pablito Reyna of Lot 16, Block 85, Phase 8, North Fairview, Quezon City – came after the two tried to haul the motor vehicle of the victim, not knowing that a team of CIDG agents led by Chief Inspector Randy Glenn S. Silvio, Pampanga CIDG chief, were posted around the area.

Bolabola said that as soon as the two armed suspects tried to get the Kawasaki motorcycle of Ellaine Cunanan Torres, 20, of Barangay Anunas, Angeles City, they were immediately arrested by the CIDG agents.

The entrapment was done after Torres sought CIDG’s assistance regarding the activities of the two suspects who claimed to be NBI agents.

Silvio said the alleged NBI agents had earlier forcibly took all their properties inside their apartment at 17 Maharajah Apartment in Barangay Anunas, several days after they arrested her partner – Levi Anderson, an American – on alleged involvement in human trafficking.

Later, the suspected NBI agents sent text messages demanding turnover of their motorcycle in exchange for the release of Anderson, who they said is under the custody of the NBI-National Capital Region. This prompted Torres to seek the assistance of the CIDG. (Mar T. Supnad)