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BY MAE SINGUAY
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Saturday, March 4, 2017
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BACOLOD City – The public utility jeepney driver from Murcia, Negros Occidental accused of robbing and raping a call center agent here has not been charged.
Police allowed the 42-year-old Virgilio Villaflor to go home to Barangay Minoyan, Murcia around 10:30 p.m. on Thursday after showing up at Police Station 7 here earlier that day.
Chief Inspector Charles Gever, police station commander, said they could not arrest Villaflor because he was not immediately identified as a suspect.
The 26-year-old call center agent accused Villaflor only when the latter appeared at the police station, said Gever.
Earlier Villaflor said in a radio interview he went to Police Station 7 upon learning from his brother Rodolfo that officers were looking for him.
Villaflor will not be subjected to a manhunt either, Gever said.
That the victim “positively identified” Villaflor as one of the two people who attacker her around 3 a.m. on Wednesday was not enough. Police still have to gather more evidence, said Gever.
Robbery with rape charges may be filed against the suspects only when there is sufficient evidence, he stressed.
Virgilio vehemently denied the allegations. He said he was at home around the time the incident happened.
On her way to work on Wednesday, the victim hired a red tricycle in Purok San Jose, Barangay Alijis and asked to be taken to Ubiquity Global Service at the CyberCentre on Lacson Street, police records showed.
But the driver and the back rider took her shortcut to Purok Kabukiran, Barangay Taculing, and then stopped and declared holdup.
Police said the suspects brought the victim to Purok Kasilingnan 2, Barangay Mansilingan and raped her there. They also took her mobile phone worth P4,600, and brown sling bag containing a pair of earrings worth P500, a silver necklace worth P1,400 and a thermal flask worth P199.
The suspects then brought her to the Don Jaime Avenue La Salle Ville, also in Mansilingan, and fled, police said./PN
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