CAMP GEN. MIGUEL MALVAR, Batangas City – A 24-year-old rape suspect in Batangas was nabbed by joint operatives of the Lemery Municipal Police Station and Batangas Provincial Intelligence Branch (PIB) while hiding at the North Harbor in Tondo, Manila after eluding arrest by authorities for almost four years.
In his report to Calabarzon regional police director Chief Supt. Edward Esperat Carranza on Sunday, Batangas provincial police director Senior Supt. Edwin Aguilan Quilates identified the suspect as Jimson Maullon Villanueva alias ‘James’, who hails from Barangay San Isidro Itaas in Lemery, Batangas and was presently residing at North Harbor.
Quilates said the joint police operatives of the Lemery police, led by Chief Inspector Alfie Maluenda Salang, and the Batangas PIB swooped down on the suspect’s hiding place around 7 p.m. on Saturday.
The law enforcers were armed with a warrant of arrest for two counts of rape under Criminal Case Nos. 159-2014 and 160-2014 issued by Judge Eleuterio Larisma Bathan of the Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 5 of Lemery, Batangas dated Oct. 13, 2014.
Based on police files, the accused is listed as Top 1 under the Lambat Sibat Phase 4, Top 2 under the Lambat Sibat Phase 3 in Batangas and listed as Top 4 under the Manhunt Charlie at the Lemery Municipal Level.
No bail was recommended for the arrested suspect, who is now detained at the Bauan municipal police station jail. (Jojo C. Magsombol/PNA)
