BAGUIO CITY – Five wanted persons were successively arrested by combined police operatives and intelligence agents during separate aggressive anti-criminality operations in the different parts of the city.
Police authorities stated that the manhunt operations resulted in the arrest of a 27-year-old male identified as No. 1 TMWP at the Station Level and No. 3 TMWP at the City Level in Barangay Tiptop, Ambuklao Road. The suspect was apprehended by joint operatives of the different units of Baguio City Police Office (BCPO) and Regional Intelligence Unit (RIU)-14 after the execution of an arrest warrant for violation of statutory rape against a 14-year-old female minor on May 2022.
In BARANGAY Honeymoon Road, a 24-year-old male listed as No. 4 TMWP-Regional Level was arrested by joint operatives of BCPO-CIU, Regional Intelligence Division PRO-CAR, and PS6 following the implementation of a warrant of arrest for Statutory Rape (2 Counts) against a 13-year-old female minor on April 2024.
Further, in Barangay Lower Rock Quarry, a 52-year-old male was arrested by joint operatives of Baguio CPO CIU, Regional Intelligence Unit-14, and Asingan Municipal Police Station after the implementation of a warrant of arrest for Violation of Qualified Statutory Rape against an 11-year-old female minor on January 2024.
Meanwhile, two members of the Communist Terrorist Group, identified as a 47-year-old male and a 42-year-old female, were arrested by joint operatives of BCPO and Police Regional Office-8after the execution of warrants for crimes under the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020 (R.A 11479) and Arson. Despite evading capture in the city for four months, authorities successfully tracked them down in Barangay Guisad and Barangay Upper Quirino-Magsaysay, leading to their immediate arrest.
The suspects were taken into custody by their respective operating units for documentation and appropriate disposition. By Dexter A. See
