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Friday, September 02, 2005
Wanted for child rape in US, caught in Bohol
By Karlon N. Rama & Elias O. Baquero
Sun.Star Staff Reporters
An American wanted at home for a rape case was arrested yesterday by National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) 7 agents in a town in Bohol.
Jeremy Dean Dunlap, 60, of 553 Oakhill Drive, Goldendale, Washington was arrested in Sta. Cruz Maribojoc, Bohol, where he resided with his wife of two years.
The Superior Court of the State of Washington issued a bench warrant for Dunlap.
NBI 7 Director Medardo de Lemos said they will turn over Dunlap to BI 7 for his deportation to the United States, where he’d been previously convicted with sexual assault on a child.
“His passport was already revoked because it was fraudulent,” de Lemos said.
Wrong person
But the suspect said the agents arrested the wrong person when they jumped on him and his wife, Remedios, at the Tubigon Pier.
“That’s a different guy,” he told Sun.Star Cebu, as he showed his Philippine driver’s license. It identifies him as J. Dean Butterfield Dunlap.
De Lemos, in an interview, maintains they got the same guy, as evidenced by a copy of a revoked US passport bearing the suspect’s name and photograph.
He said the operation had been going on since the third week of August, when they received a letter request from the US consulate.
Dunlap also denied having left the US to avoid prosecution.
He said they were even on their way to Cebu City to pick up a new passport booklet at the US consular office, in preparation for a trip to Australia with a nephew and a trip back to the US for his mother’s birthday.
He admitted, however, having been previously convicted of armed robbery, but that this was in the 70s “before I stopped drinking and drugging”.
“I was told that there was a problem with my passport and I told them (the agents) that my papers were in order and that I was on my way to the US consulate. They said everything will be sorted out here,” he said.
A team of operatives, led by de Lemos, arrived in Bohol past eight in the morning and immediately proceeded to the Tubigon Pier, where an agent had tailed Dunlap and Remedios after buying tickets at the Calape Public Market.
Extension
After the arrest, they arrived at the NBI headquarters in Cebu City at around 1:30 p.m.
Dunlap left the US on a tourist visa on April 1, 2003 and arrived in the Philippines with a US-issued passport on April 3.
BI 7 Director Geronimo Rosas, in an interview, said Dunlap was granted an extension of stay in the country several times. His latest extension is valid until Sept. 21 this year.
It was the US Marshall Service who relayed the information that Dunlap was wanted back home to the office of Immigration Associate Commissioner Teodoro B. Delarmente.
(September 2, 2005 issue)
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