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Saturday, July 5, 2025

Crime Watch

Alleged conman nabbed

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There was a ma­jor break break­through this week on Crime Watch when host Ian Al­leyne cracked a fraud and theft rack­et.Al­leyne de­scribed Ker­win Fer­di­nand's case as one of the biggest Crime Watch had ever seen af­ter as­sist­ing in his cap­ture.Fer­di­nand was ex­posed by Al­leyne af­ter Nao­mi Williams came to the show claim­ing that she was called by Fer­di­nand, who told her to come to see him for a job in­ter­view.

Up­on meet­ing him, Williams told Al­leyne that was told that she could not wear jew­el­ry when she went to see the own­ers of the com­pa­ny she was al­leged­ly be­ing in­ter­viewed by. She told Al­leyne she then re­moved the jew­el­ry and placed it in her hand­bag.Fer­di­nand then told her to walk in­side to meet an­oth­er in­ter­vie­wee and she re­port­ed­ly left the hand­bag with him. As she walked in­side, how­ev­er, Fer­di­nand, with the bag in hand, im­me­di­ate­ly fled the scene.

The Crime Watch host aired a pic­ture of the sus­pect at the time on the show. Af­ter the shot was aired nu­mer­ous calls came in with over 17 peo­ple claim­ing to have gone through sim­i­lar ex­pe­ri­ences with the in­di­vid­ual. They all said he pre­tend­ed to be in a po­si­tion to se­cure jobs for them, in­vit­ed them to in­ter­views at var­i­ous lo­ca­tions, then made off with their valu­ables af­ter telling them they could not go in­to in­ter­views with them.

The fol­low­ing day, Al­leyne was able to con­tact Fer­di­nand, who agreed to meet with him at Price Plaza, Ch­agua­nas.The dra­ma un­fold­ed af­ter Al­leyne met Fer­di­nand at the arranged place, where he con­fessed to the crime. Fer­di­nand fur­ther claimed to have been en­gag­ing in such ac­tiv­i­ty for years be­cause he did not have any mon­ey.Al­leyne quick­ly called Se­nior Sup. John­ny Abra­ham, of the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion, and told him that he had the per­pe­tra­tor with him.

Short­ly af­ter the call, Abra­ham and a team from the Ch­agua­nas Task Force ar­rived at Price Plaza.But on see­ing the po­lice, Fer­di­nand locked him­self in the car and re­fused to come out, al­though the po­lice tried to ne­go­ti­ate with him to do so.Al­leyne was even­tu­al­ly able to per­suade Fer­di­nand to give him­self up and he was tak­en in­to po­lice cus­tody.The Crime Watch host thanked Abra­ham and his team for as­sist­ing him in ap­pre­hend­ing Fer­di­nand.

In an­oth­er case, the moth­er of spe­cial child Math­ias Man­son, 18, came to Crime Watch in tears as she begged Al­leyne to help her find her son, who went miss­ing on Au­gust 12 around 12 pm.Man­son's pic­ture was aired on Tues­day's show and with­in one or two hours the boy was found and is back home with his moth­er. Man­son's moth­er came back to thank Al­leyne for all his help.In a sim­i­lar case, Ly­dia Safe came on to the show seek­ing help to find her fa­ther, Philbert Safe, of North Man­zanil­la, who went miss­ing Au­gust 5.

Af­ter air­ing his pho­to con­duct­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions, Safe was found that night and is now back home with his daugh­ter.


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