Man held over 3 statutory rape raps

ILIGAN CITY — Police arrested a 40-year-old man wanted for three counts of statutory rape during a joint manhunt operation in Tubod, Lanao del Norte, early Saturday.

Police Col. Leo de Leon Sua, provincial director of the Lanao del Norte Police Provincial Office, said joint tracker teams from the Tubod Municipal Police Station, Provincial Intelligence Unit, 1st Provincial Mobile Force Company and 1005th Mobile Force Company of the Regional Mobile Force Battalion 10 conducted the operation at around 1 a.m. in Purok 3, Barangay Camp V.

The operation resulted in the arrest of a suspect identified only as alias “Jas,” 40, married, a farmer, and a resident of the barangay.

The suspect was arrested by virtue of a warrant issued on 5 Nov. by Judge Richie Gay Tomboc Mendoza of the Regional Trial Court, 10th Judicial Region, Branch 7 in Tubod.

The warrant covers three criminal cases — Nos. 4002-07-2026, 4003-07-2026 and 4004-07-2026 — involving alleged violations of Article 266-A of the Revised Penal Code, as amended, or statutory rape. No bail was recommended.

Following his arrest, the suspect was brought to the Tubod Municipal Police Station, where he remains in police custody for documentation and proper disposition.