Two Dutch men suspected of running sex Web sites killed in shootout with local police

PhilStar ^ | 26 may 2005 | Staff

[csvset]

Two Dutch men suspected of running sex Web sites killed in shootout with local police.
05/26 2:51:31 PM
MANILA (AP) - Two Dutch brothers suspected of running pornographic Web sites from their Manila house were killed in a shootout with government agents who were serving them arrest warrants, officials said Thursday. Willen Cornelis "Cheri" Van Engelenburg, 44, and his brother Hendrikus Erik Van Engelenburg, 38, resisted arrest and opened fire at police officers during a raid in suburban Quezon City late Wednesday, authorities said in a statement. The raid was one of two simultaneous operations against "cyber sex dens" owned by the Dutch brothers after weeks of surveillance and investigation, the statement said. In the house where the shootout took place, agents found five women who told investigators they were paid to undress and perform sex acts in front of Internet cameras for clients mostly in the United States, for payments of up to 50,000 pesos (915 US dollars) a month. In the second apartment, police arrested the Filipino wife of one of the brothers and a man suspected of being the cashier, the statement said. They also found two women sex models there, it said.

[csvset]

You'll never take us alive, coppers!

[wideawake]

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

[Semper Paratus]

Guess the pay scale for 'actors' is less than in the Netherlands.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Bye, bye scumbags!

[Horatio Gates]

That's two down. It's a start

[ASA Vet]

Does that make the URL available?

[layman]

killed in a shootout with government agents

They died standing up for something they believed in.

[csvset]

Does that make the URL available?

Could be.

Unemployment up, women hit hardest. /sarcasm

[dennisw]

What a shame :)

[TigersEye]

Criminy! What was the punishment going to be? Would they have been sent back to Holland?

[af_vet_1981]

Good riddance to bad rubbish

Bump for Truth

[Deguello]

"make the URL available?"

Maybe, but for sure your Credit Card will be still be debited every month. You might want to watch your monthly statments.

[wideawake]

They probably thought: "Either a guaranteed 20 years in a Filipino prison, or a firefight with the cops which might give us a chance to escape . . . Choice B."

[ASA Vet]

You didn't understand my question.

[jb6]

Can you imagine the Islamic assisted living conditions in Holland if they had a shoot out to the death rather then be deported!

[Deguello]

"didn't understand"

There were some previous threads here in FR about how the brain processes sarcasm and dry humor.

[TigersEye]

I suppose it was either Filipino prison or hand retting hemp stalks for rope in Holland and something had to give.

"Cover me vall I make a break to truck, Hendrikus!"

[TigersEye]

[ASA Vet]

"Cover me vall I make a break to truck, Hendrikus!"

What the heck, it's only a few policemen.

[ASA Vet]

Sick folks think alike.....