Hijacking with a twist

I have heard on one late night news about a hijacking incident that took place in Atimonan, Quezon one noontime in January of this year.  A truck loaded with copra was flagged down by three armed men then blindfolded and hogtied the driver and his helper.  Such incident rang a bell to my ear.  Few decades ago when I was still working with a Customs Brokerage Company, this likewise happened (but with a little twist) to one of the company’s trucks that was transporting the same commodity, copra.  The truck was reported to the office by the driver to have been hijacked somewhere in the province of Quezon.  However, as the police began the investigation, it turned out that there was no hijacking that took place.  A witness admitted participation in the supposedly hijacking and pointed at the driver as the mastermind.  The goods were recovered in a barrio in Laguna and the truck was later traced in Cavite.  The driver and his four accomplices were later convicted and jailed for 12 to 16 years in prison. 

It was evidently the age when GPS Tracking wasn’t given much importance yet by the business group especially my bosses.  If only the company have thought of making use of a GPS Tracking device, such kind of troublesome incident could have been avoided.  Today, GPS Tracking is a common word not only in the business world but with the private individuals as well.