Cops catch Caloocan’s most wanted after 3 years on the run

The Caloocan police arrested on Monday the city’s most wanted man who was accused of raping and impregnating a 24-year-old woman with a learning disability.

Hernesto Nolasco, 48, was caught in Marilao, Bulacan after nearly three years in hiding since he allegedly raped “Wendy” three times in 2015, according to Chief Insp. Jonathan Olveña, Caloocan police warrant and intelligence section chief.

Wendy’s father told reporters that the victim had a learning disability, making her unable to care for her child.

Olveña said Nolasco became Caloocan City’s most wanted man because of the “gravity and seriousness” of his crime in light of Wendy’s condition.

After the victim gave birth, her family had to turn her son over to the Department of Social Work and Development.

In May 2017, Judge Raymundo Vallega of the Caloocan Regional Trial Court Branch 130 issued an arrest warrant against Nolasco.
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In an interview, the accused owned up to the crime but insisted that he did not force himself on Wendy.

His arrest came after a former policeman, the city’s third most wanted, was finally apprehended in Butuan City, Agusan del Norte after 13 years in hiding.

Former PO2 Reynaldo de Castro, 53, fled to Butuan after killing his neighbors—city hall employee Isidoro Centeno Jr., his wife Leticia and their son Servando—on Dec. 25, 2004.

Senior Supt. Jemar Modequillo, Caloocan police chief, said De Castro shot the victims after his brother, a pedicab driver, got into a fight with Servando over passengers.

According to De Castro, he was forced to fire his gun because the Centenos “mobbed” him.