BY RUBY P. SILUBRICO
ILOILO City – The No. 4 most wanted man here was arrested on Saturday in Barangay Sto. Angel, Dumalag, Capiz.
Rape suspect Manuel Barrios, 60, of Barangay Sinikway, La Paz district was immediately turned over to the La Paz police station.
Barrios has been accused of raping a 19-year-old mentally-ill woman in 2011.
“We have been hunting him for three years,” said Senior Insp. Edgar Anonoy , La Paz police chief.
Combined personnel of the La Paz and Dumalag police stations cornered Barrios in the house of a relative around 4 p.m.
Regional Trial Court Judge Elena Opinion of Branch 27 issued the warrant for his arrest. No bail has been recommended.
“The victim was his neighbor,” Anonoy said.
Barrios denied raping the woman.
He also said he was in Capiz working, not hiding./PN
