Shop owner blackmailing women with sex videos

The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) on Tuesday apprehended a cellular phone repair shop owner who allegedly filmed his sexual trysts with his textmates and then using them to blackmail his victims.

According to Supervising Agent Arnel Dalumpines, of the NBI-Special Task Force (STF), suspect Richard Miranda, alias Marco Clarence Miranda, 27, allegedly enticed women to have sex with him for money and then refuse to pay up.

The NBI apprehended him in an entrapment operation after a 26-year-old former entertainer in Japan complained that Miranda, of Tramo, Las Piñas City, was allegedly extorting money from her by threatening to humiliate her by posting their sex video on the Internet or in tabloid newspapers.

The woman said she met Miranda through a text chatroom aired on a cable television.

They met in front of the Heritage Hotel in Pasay City sometime during the second week of December last year.

The suspect promised to pay her P30,000 if she agreed to have sex with him. They proceeded to Carlston Hotel in Parañaque City.

However, after she has fulfilled her obligations the suspect borrowed her mobile phones to call a friend and stepped out of the room. The woman said the suspect failed to pay her the promised P30,000 and took off with her phones.

They met on two other occasions but he refused to return her cellular phones and did not give her money. She was also forced to have sex with him and a friend. The suspect also reportedly demanded that she pay him P2,000.

The NBI set the entrapment operation last Tuesday. Agents arrested Miranda after the payoff.

Case investigator Agent 3 Johnny Logronio said they filed several charges against Miranda before the Parañaque City Prosecutor’s Office. Aside from rape, they also slapped charges of robbery through intimidation, theft, grave threats and human trafficking.