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'Colorum' driver, accomplice rape 2 women inside van

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<h3>Accomplice still at large</h3><figure class="op-social"><iframe frameBorder="0" height="383" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/R3XPCUJJwQM" width="510"></iframe></figure><p>MANILA - Police have arrested the driver of a colorum UV Express shuttle who allegedly raped two women inside his van in Quezon City last week.</p><p>The victims, ages 22 and 27, boarded the van in Quezon Avenue-EDSA last Friday night.</p><p>The driver and his accomplice allegedly declared a hold-up when they reached Batasan Hills, tied up the victims and took away their valuables.</p><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/news-special1/metro/6/15/uv-express-driver.jpg"/></figure></div><p>The two men allegedly raped the victims alternately while driving around in Caloocan and Bulacan.</p><p>The suspects dumped the women, still bound up, in Sauyo Road in Quezon City Saturday morning.</p><p>Police identified the van driver, Wilfredo Lorenzo, through CCTV footage of his van in Caloocan and Sauyo Road.</p><p>Authorities arrested Lorenzo while he was picking up passengers in Commonwealth Avenue on Monday.</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"><p dir="ltr" lang="tl">Driver ng UV express na nanggahasa sa 2 babaeng pasahero sa QC, arestado; 1 pa tinutugis | via <a href="https://twitter.com/Dennis_Datu">@Dennis_Datu</a> <a href="https://t.co/LYWFkHWRht">pic.twitter.com/LYWFkHWRht</a></p>— DZMM TeleRadyo (@DZMMTeleRadyo) <a href="https://twitter.com/DZMMTeleRadyo/status/742946507704406016">June 15, 2016</a></blockquote><script async="" src="~//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script><p>A plastic sachet of suspected shabu was recovered from his van. The suspect also tested positive for using drugs.</p><p>Lorenzo&#x27;s victims positively identified him at Camp Caringal on Wednesday.</p><p>Enraged, the two women and their family mobbed the suspect and had to be restrained by policemen.</p><p>The victims also appealed to President-elect Rodrigo Duterte to fulfill his promise of reinstating the death penalty for perpetrators of heinous crimes.</p><p>&quot;President, kailangan namin ng tulong niyo. Wala nang dapat mabuhay na ganyan, maraming mabibiktima. Kaya kong manindigan, patayin niyo lang siya,&quot; wailed one victim.</p><p>READ:<strong> <a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/nation/06/08/16/duterte-favors-hanging-not-lethal-injection" target="_blank">Duterte favors hanging, not lethal injection</a></strong></p><p>Meanwhile, Quezon City Police District-Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit (CIDU) chief Insp. Rodel Marcelo said police have release a cartographic sketch of Lorenzo&#x27;s accomplice, identified only as alias &quot;Buddy&quot;.</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"><p dir="ltr" lang="tl">Pagtugis kay alias Buddy, isa pang suspek sa panggagahasa, patuloy | via <a href="https://twitter.com/raphbosano">@raphbosano</a> <a href="https://t.co/yyYbw4k1hx">pic.twitter.com/yyYbw4k1hx</a></p>— DZMM TeleRadyo (@DZMMTeleRadyo) <a href="https://twitter.com/DZMMTeleRadyo/status/742946354473906176">June 15, 2016</a></blockquote><script async="" src="~//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script><p>Marcelo believes that the suspects may be behind other similar cases in the adjoining Makati City and Rizal province.</p><p>&quot;We understand na sa ibang lugar din, sa Rizal, sa Makati, ganitong modus operandi rin yung ini-employ. May mga kaso tayo na unsolved na nanininiwala ako na ito yung may mga kagagagawan,&quot; he said.</p><p>Lorenzo has been charged with rape, robbery and illegal possession of drugs. -- <strong>Report from Dennis Datu, radio dzMM</strong></p><div><a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/focus/v2/04/19/16/a-rape-every-53-minutes-fast-facts-on-rape" target="_blank"><strong>A rape every 53 minutes: Fast facts on rape</strong></a></div>

Police have arrested the driver of a colorum UV Express shuttle who allegedly raped two women inside his van in Quezon City last week.