Female dentists' sexual molester positive for drugs

MANILA, Philippines - One of the suspects in the spate of sexual attacks and robberies against female dentists in Metro Manila and neighboring areas tested positive for illegal drugs.

Urine samples taken from Albert de la Cruz, 31, showed positive residue of the illegal drugs shabu, according to the report submitted by the Scene of the Crime Operatives (SOCO) of the Southern Police District (SPD).

National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) chief Director Alan Purisima said the SOCO report bolstered their suspicion that De la Cruz and his cohort Ronald Policarpio were high on drugs when they attacked their victims.

The SOCO findings, Purisima said, would strengthen the cases they filed against De la Cruz and Policarpio, who yielded a sachet of shabu each, at the time of their arrests.

He said at least 15 of their victims have positively identified De la Cruz as the person who sexually molested and robbed them, while Policarpio acted as a “lookout.”

Purisima urged the other victims to surface and file charges “so the two of them would rot in jail.”

Senior Superintendent Conrado Capa, NCRPO’s intelligence chief said De la Cruz and Policarpio admitted that they take shabu before each strike to make them “daring and bolder.”

Capa said they are also checking reports that De la Cruz started taking illegal drugs in 2000 while Policarpio entered a rehabilitation clinic at the height of his drug problem.

Capa also noted that De la Cruz was caught on video inside a dental clinic feverishly wiping his face and arms, one of the habits of drug addicts.