Batangas rape suspect nabbed in Tarlac after 5 years in hiding
MABALACAT CITY, Pampanga—Authorities finally caught up with a 60-year-old Batangas rape suspect, who was arrested Tuesday in Barangay San Vicente, San Manuel town, Tarlac province.
Col. Renante Cabico, Tarlac police director, said Abundio Ilag, a driver from Rosario town in Batangas, is the subject of a warrant of arrest issued November 2015 by Judge Rose Marie Manalang-Austria of Rosario Regional Trial Court Branch 87.
Cabico said Ilag was the third most wanted person of Police Regional Office 4-A in Southern Luzon.
“He went into hiding for almost five years in San Manuel,” he said.
Joint police personnel from Batangas, PRO4-A, National Capital Region, and San Manuel conducted the operation that resulted in the arrest of the suspect.
In another operation, the police arrested a certain Jeremiah Parazo, 25, in Barangay Tagumbao, Gerona, Tarlac for alleged violation of the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012.
Article continues after this advertisementCabico said the suspect was the subject of a warrant issued by Judge Ma. Roma Flor Ortiz of Tarlac City RTC Branch 63 with a recommended bail of P30,000.
