A policeman who has been hiding from the law for nearly a decade for the crime of rape was finally apprehended by the Department of Transportation’s Special Action and Intelligence Committee for Transportation (DOTr-SAICT) for illegally passing through the EDSA busway on Monday, March 24.
According to the officers of DOTr-SAICT, they caught the suspect illegally using the busway reserved for the exclusive use of public utility buses and authorized emergency vehicles.
When he was asked to stop, he identified himself as a member of the Philippine National Police (PNP) and ordered the SAICT personnel to let him pass.
The authorities contacted the PNP’s Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) to verify his identity.
They discovered that the rider has a long standing warrant of arrest for the crime of rape issued on Feb. 22, 2016.
After obtaining a copy of the warrant, CIDG officers went to the area to apprehend the suspect and escorted him to Camp Crame while SAICT personnel confiscated the suspect's driver's license.