A 25-year-old man with the surname Arracera, who had been a fugitive since Saturday after stabbing his mother and setting their house on fire with her inside, was accidentally located this Monday by units of the National System for Civil Protection (Sinaproc) in Quiteño, corregimiento of Las Lomas, district of David, province of Chiriquí. The suspect, whom his own mother identified as her attacker, was found on Monday by Sinaproc while several units were conducting a search for a 63-year-old adult reported missing in Las Lomas. The suspect was dehydrated, having remained in the river since after 10:00 p.m. on Saturday—when he fled his mother's house after attacking her—until around 1:10 a.m. this morning when he was found. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Women confirmed that it is coordinating an interdisciplinary team to provide support and assistance to the family unit of the elderly woman, who is in stable condition despite suffering burns on 20% of her body. Arracera ended up on the banks of a river in David, beaten, with injuries to his arms and a fracture in one of his legs, after being swept away by rising waters, according to Mónika Acosta, provincial director of Sinaproc in Chiriquí. After a half-hour walk, officers managed to transfer the suspect to a safe point where paramedics from the Unique Emergency Management System picked him up and took him to the 'Rafael Hernández' Regional Hospital in David, where he is being held.
Man who stabbed mother and set house on fire found in Panama
A 25-year-old man who had been on the run since attacking his mother and setting their home on fire was found on Monday in a river in Chiriquí province. His mother, with 20% burns, is in stable condition.
