{"id":34782,"date":"2014-12-09T16:39:01","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T08:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=34782"},"modified":"2014-12-09T16:47:55","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T08:47:55","slug":"caloocan-serial-rapist-apprehended-by-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/12\/09\/caloocan-serial-rapist-apprehended-by-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Caloocan \u2018serial rapist&#8217; apprehended by police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_122688160.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34791\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_122688160.jpg\" alt=\"Handcuffs_shutterstock_122688160\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_122688160.jpg 500w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_122688160-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_122688160-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_122688160-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 The suspect in a series of rapes in Caloocan City has been apprehended, 5 months after he was ordered arrested by Caloocan Mayor Oscar Malapitan.<\/p>\n<p>Albert Biol, 42, was arrested on Saturday night after he broke into and ransacked a house in the Bukid Area, killing the homeowner in the process.<\/p>\n<p>Police arrested Biol at the Bernardino Hospital, where the suspect had gone for treatment of injuries sustained in a scuffle with the slain homeowner, Benjamin Alhambra, 32-years-old.<\/p>\n<p>Upon checking their records, authorities found out that Biol was wanted for rape under the alias of Daniel Mercado.<\/p>\n<p>Since his arrest, ten women victimized by Biol have positively identified the suspect as the man who raped them at gunpoint; according to Caloocan police chief Senior Superintendent Bartolome Bustamante.<\/p>\n<p>Bustamante noted that the rapes occurred within a span of a few days, and that they were expecting more women to come forward and press charges against Biol.<\/p>\n<p>The police chief added that the suspect was caught after officers at the scene of the break-in found evidence of a struggle. They then searched nearby hospitals, which led them to Biol. The suspect had sought medical attention for a head wound he sustained when the victim hit him on the head before he was killed by Biol.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Mayor Malapitan assured the women that the city government will assist them in their quest for justice for the crime committed against them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 The suspect in a series of rapes in Caloocan City has been apprehended, 5 months after he was &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":34791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","mauthors-angie-duarte","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}