Philippine police apologize to Thomas Markle Jr. after mistaken person-of-interest label
The Philippine National Police, speaking through Interior Secretary Jonvic Remulla, said it apologized to Thomas Markle Jr. for mistakenly designating him a person of interest in the child-sex-abuse investigation involving his father, during a press conference in Cebu on November 7. The apology followed earlier developments that began on November 2, when police announced cooperation with U. S. law-enforcement agencies on a probe into alleged child-pornography material found at Thomas Markle Sr.
’s Cebu home and later named Markle Jr. as a person of interest, though not a suspect. In the United States, federal agents arrested Thomas Markle Sr. in Florida on federal child-pornography charges after FBI raids of storage units in Florida, California and Mexico, after which he was placed under house detention at an assisted-living facility.