American wanted in US nabbed in Cebu town

CEBU CITY—An American wanted in the United States on a sodomy charge was arrested last week at the village of San Roque in Ginatilan town, Cebu province. Donald Robert Tyler was nabbed on Dec. 10 in a house he shared with a Filipina partner. He arrived in Cebu on Nov. 9, 2019, said Special Investigator Maria Contessa Lastimoso of the National Bureau of Investigation in Central Visayas, who served the warrant issued by the Circuit Court of Oregon on Nov. 4, 2019. The NBI’s help to locate Tyler was sought by the U.S. Department of State Diplomatic Service, Office of the Overseas Criminal Investigation at the U.S. Embassy in Manila through its attaché, Michelle Michaud. Tyler was turned over to the Bureau of Immigration for deportation proceedings. —NESTLE SEMILLA