• THERESA MAE DULMAN
Police arrested the third most wanted person in the Negros Island Region Nov. 9, in E.B. Magalona, Negros Occidental, who is facing charges for sexually assaulting the minor sister of his live-in partner.
Operatives from the Regional Intelligence Division of the Police Regional Office-Negros Island Region (PRO-NIR), alongside local police, apprehended the suspect at Santa Monica Road in Barangay Tabigue, in the town at around 8:13 a.m.
The arrest was by virtue of the two warrants for qualified rape of a minor and acts of lasciviousness issued against the suspect.
“The minor victim claimed that the accused, who was the live-in partner of her older sister, sexually assaulted her at a secluded area after asking her to accompany him,” the PRO-NIR said.
The suspect is detained at the E.B. Magalona Municipal Police Station for proper disposition. | TMD
