NBI nabs cop in La Union for sextortion

A police officer was arrested in an entrapment operation on Friday, 4 July, after allegedly extorting sexual favors from his former live-in partner in exchange for the deletion of intimate videos he had secretly kept and later uploaded online.

Agents from the National Bureau of Investigation-Ilocos Regional Office, in coordination with the Philippine National Police-Integrity Monitoring and Enforcement Group Team 1, apprehended Police Officer 1 John Mark Rivera y Emperador at a fast-food restaurant in Rosario, La Union, around 1 p.m.

He was arrested following a complaint filed on 2 July by the victim, who accused the officer of multiple violations, including Republic Act 9262 (Anti-Violence Against Women and Their Children Act), Grave Coercion in relation to the Cybercrime Prevention Act (RA 10175), and the Anti-Photo and Video Voyeurism Act (RA 9995).

The victim claimed that Rivera — her former boyfriend and live-in partner — recorded several of their sexual encounters with the promise that the videos would be deleted.

But after their relationship ended over Rivera’s alleged infidelity, the woman discovered that explicit images and footage had been posted through a dummy social media account, which she identified as coming from videos Rivera had earlier recorded.