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American wanted in US nabbed in Cebu town

The group Bayan Muna decried that one of its organizers was arrested, while the Philippine National Police reported one officer was hurt due to tension at a Bonifacio Day protest along Recto Avenue in Manila.

CEBU CITY—An American wanted in the United States on a sodomy charge was arrested last week at the village of San Roque in Ginatilan town, Cebu province. Donald Robert Tyler was nabbed on Dec. 10 in a house he shared with a Filipina partner. He arrived in Cebu on Nov. 9, 2019, said Special Investigator Maria Contessa Lastimoso of the National Bureau of Investigation in Central Visayas, who served the warrant issued by the Circuit Court of Oregon on Nov. 4, 2019. The NBI’s help to locate Tyler was sought by the U.S. Department of State Diplomatic Service, Office of the Overseas Criminal Investigation at the U.S. Embassy in Manila through its attaché, Michelle Michaud. Tyler was turned over to the Bureau of Immigration for deportation proceedings. —NESTLE SEMILLA

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