Suspect in gruesome murder of Ruby Rose Barrameda falls

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MANILA, Philippines—The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) arrested one of the accused in the gruesome killing of Ruby Rose Barrameda, sister of former beauty queen Rochelle Barrameda.

Accused Robert Ponce was arrested in Cauayan in Isabela Province by virtue of a warrant of arrest issued by the Malabon City Regional Trial Court.

Ponce, the NBI said, admitted his participation in the crime.

He told reporters that he was the one who poured cement into the drum containing Ruby Rose’s body.

He, however, said he did not witness how she was killed. He also said he had no knowledge where the other suspects disposed of the drum after he sealed it with cement.

Ponce added that he was also one of men who fetched Ruby Rose from the house of Atty. Manuel Jimenez in Paranaque but he was not in the same vehicle with Ruby Rose.

“She is with Spyke [co-accused former police officer Leonard Descalso],” he told reporters.

He said he has been hiding in Isabela for three years.

Ruby Rose was reported missing in March 2007. Her body was found stuffed in a cemented drum and dropped in waters off Navotas City on June 10, 2009.