MANILA, Philippines \u2013 Authorities arrested two foreigners suspected of involvement in child exploitation cases in separate operations conducted in Cavite and Tarlac provinces.<\/p>\n
In a news release Sunday, Bureau of Immigration-Fugitive Search Unit Chief Rendel Ryan Sy said police and immigration agents nabbed Japanese Yuto Konno, 43, during an operation in Cavite on May 12.<\/p>\n
He is wanted by Japanese authorities for forcible sexual intercourse and forcible indecency with a child.<\/p>\n
Records showed that in 2018, he allegedly molested three minors inside a restroom facility in Hokkaido, Japan.<\/p>\n
A warrant for his arrest was issued by the Nagoya Summary Court on Aug. 16, 2024.<\/p>\n
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By signing up with an email address, I acknowledge that I have read and agree to the Terms of Service<\/a> and Privacy Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n Authorities seized from him several electronic devices allegedly containing child sexual abuse or exploitation materials.<\/p>\n Immigration records revealed that the suspect arrived in the Philippines in 2019 as a temporary visitor and has overstayed since April 2022.<\/p>\n He was also found to have active blacklist and watchlist orders for undesirability and overstaying.<\/p>\n In a separate operation on May 13, 37-year-old American national Tony Le was arrested in Bamban, Tarlac.<\/p>\n Le is wanted by US authorities for charges related to enticing and coercing a minor to engage in sexual activity, in violation of US federal laws involving child sexual exploitation materials.<\/p>\n The arrest stemmed from information provided by the US government regarding his presence in Tarlac.<\/p>\n Verification by immigration authorities showed that Le had previously been excluded from entering the country in February 2024 due to derogatory records connected to possible child sex exploitation investigations.<\/p>\n Authorities believe he may have illegally entered the Philippines.<\/p>\n Both fugitives are under the custody of the BI Warden Facility pending deportation proceedings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MANILA, Philippines \u2013 Authorities arrested two foreigners suspected of involvement in child exploitation cases in separate operations conducted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1363,21935,21933,96,8,17,21934,10783],"class_list":["post-27762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-japan","tag-american","tag-back-to-back","tag-fugitives","tag-in","tag-japan","tag-japanese","tag-nabbed","tag-operations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}