Police use Facebook in arrest of murder suspect July 28, 2010, 11:03am

Police use Facebook in arrest of murder suspect

July 28, 2010, 11:03am

 

 MANILA (AFP) – Philippine police on Wednesday said they used Facebook to track down a Filipino computer technician blamed for the gruesome murders of nine people, three of them foreigners.

 

The suspect, Mark Dizon, 28, was captured by police Tuesday in San Fernando City north of Manila after his father, fearful that his son would be killed in a gunbattle, arranged to meet him.

Dizon was initially identified by witnesses through his Facebook account, where police found out that a daughter of one of the victims was an ex-girlfriend.

"He had an account on Faceboook and two witnesses positively identified him," Senior Superintendent Danilo Bautista, chief of police of nearby Angeles city where the murders took place, told AFP..... MORE

Source:  The Manila Bulletin

URL: http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/269263/police-use-facebook-arrest-murder-suspect