Part 1 of a series on the infamous vlogger.
TARLAKENYO (Dec. 16, 2025) — Pyra Lucas is infamous in Central Luzon as a self-proclaimed crusader fighting against corruption. The heavily filtered social media photos of Lucas have become the face and source of disinformation.
She joined the Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption (VACC) in 2016 after her daughter was ambushed and killed in Mabalacat City. In 2019, she was unceremoniously kicked out of the VACC. Lucas soon after founded the United Pilipino Against Crime and Corruption (UPACC), the group that has gained notoriety in the region for its unscrupulous activities.
Lucas was born on Dec. 17, 1965, in Brgy. Cacutud, Mabalacat City, Pampanga. Her husband, Arsenio Gantan, is a former Barangay Kagawad of Cacutud. They had two children, Marian and Joseph, before they separated. According to a source, she reportedly has another daughter aged 17 or 18 now.
The same source who once served as a house help of Lucas said that around 2016, she was in a relationship with an Australian doctor named “Henry.” There were also unconfirmed reports of a relationship with a certain “Ernest,” a retired colonel.
Lucas’s 29-year-old daughter, Marian, was killed in an ambush on MacArthur Highway in Barangay Mabiga, Mabalacat City, on November 23, 2014, while on her way home to Barangay Cacutud. According to Lucas, this was a case of ‘mistaken identity,’ and that she was the real target.
Marian sustained three gunshot wounds in different parts of her body and died on the spot. Investigators recovered .45 caliber shell casings.
The hysterical mother was seen at the crime scene after the shooting and repeatedly stated that then-Mayor Marino “Boking” Morales was responsible for her child’s death. Lucas is a member of the newly formed Mabalacat Citizens’ Union, which claims its advocacy is about transparency and good governance.
Due to the implication of his name, Morales filed a P20 million libel case against Lucas.
According to former Superintendent Henry Flores, then chief of police of Mabalacat City, the victim was driving a white Hyundai Tucson with plate number TOH 442 – her mother’s car – heading north when she was attacked by two armed men on a motorcycle.
However, according to the authorities’ investigation, it may have been a “crime of passion.”
A report by Punto! Central Luzon said that a man who introduced himself as Marian’s husband was at the crime scene after the shooting and was even photographed looking at the lifeless body of the victim, which remained in the car.
Flores later identified him as John Ramos. However, the police stated that Marian was not married. According to sources, she reportedly had three boyfriends, and Ramos was just one of them. Unverified reports claim that Marian allegedly had a fight with one of her boyfriends, who refused to allow her to go abroad. Marian was supposed to leave for Singapore on November 26. At Gantan’s wake at St. Louie Funeral Parlor in Barangay Mabiga, a second alleged boyfriend was reported to have arrived.
The second boyfriend reportedly received a threatening text message shortly after Marian’s murder, saying: “Ika na ing tutuki (You’re next).” A reported third boyfriend was said to be in another country.
The case remained unsolved to this day.
After the tragedy, Lucas moved around a lot, not staying in a house for long. This might be for security reasons, as she has stirred hornet’s nests all over the region. The same source said she took up several residences around Angeles City in the mid-2010s — most notably in Pulu Amsic Subdivision.
Her last recorded address was at Blk. 51, Lot. 24, Brgy. Cristo Rey in Capas, Tarlac. She lists this address in her documents along with her mother, Ligaya’s, house in Brgy. Cacutud, Mabalacat City.
