Immigration agents arrest US suspect in 18-year Alaskan rape case

April 11, 2019

The Bureau of Immigration (BI) is deporting an American wanted for his alleged involvement in an 18-year-old rape case in Alaska.

Immigration Commissioner Jaime Morente said Thursday Carmen Daniel Perzechino Jr. was arrested April 4 by members of the BI Fugitive Search Unit (FSU) at his apartment in Angeles City, Pampanga.

Morente said he issued the mission order for Perzechino’s arrest at the request of the US Embassy in Manila.

Perzechino reportedly fled to the Philippines last Feb. 11 after receiving information about his impending arrest.

Morente said Perzechino’s passport was revoked by the US State Department to facilitate his immediate deportation as an undocumented alien.

He said Perzechino is subject of an arrest warrant by a Superior Court in Kenai, Alaska where he was charged with two counts of sexual assault in the first degree and one count of kidnapping-injury with sexual assault.

“The crime was committed 18 years ago, but now he has been caught by our men, and will be sent back to his country to face trial,” he added.

According to Fugitive Search Unit chief Bobby Raquepo, Perzechino committed his alleged crime in Sterling, Alaska on Jan. 20, 2001 when he kidnapped his victim before sexually assaulting and raping her.

The American is presently detained at the immigration facility in Camp Bagong Diwa, Taguig pending issuance by the Bureau of Immigrations Board of Commissioners of his summary deportation order.

He will be then placed in the Bureau of Immigration blacklist and banned from re-entering the Philippines for being an undesirable alien. DMS