October 10, 2024 | 2:21pm
COTABATO CITY — The police finally arrested an elusive suspect in statutory rape cases in an operation in a secluded area in Barangay Titulok in Bagumbayan, Sultan Kudarat on Tuesday, October 8.
Brig. Gen. James Gulmatico, director of the Police Regional Office-12, told reporters on Thursday that Patrocinio Semeniego Jr. was cornered by combined personnel of the Bagumbayan Municipal Police Station and the Sultan Kudarat Provincial Police Office in a secluded area in Barangay Titulok with the help of local officials.
Semeniego disappeared in Koronadal City, where he resides after local courts had ordered his arrest for statutory rape cases last July.
Agents of different units under PRO-12 kept searching for him in different towns in South Cotabato and interior areas in Koronadal City until residents of Bagumbayan, an interior town in Sultan Kudarat, reported his presence in Barangay Titulok. This enabled policemen to serve him the warrants for his arrest.
Semeniego yielded peacefully when he was shown the warrants for his arrest, one of which was issued by the Branch 12 Family Court in Koronadal City, dated July 17, 2024.
Gulmatico said the court has not recommended bail for Semeniego’s temporary release from detention.
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