Manila, Sept. 2 -- Police authorities in Central Luzon scored a major breakthrough in their campaign against criminality with the arrest of the region's most wanted person during a joint operation in Lubao, Pampanga on Tuesday morning.

The suspect, identified as Kurt Jayson Claudio, 27, was apprehended in Barangay Bancal Pugad, Lubao after an intelligence-driven operation by combined elements of the Regional Intelligence Division - Regional Special Operations Group (RID-RSOG) 3 (Central Luzon), the Police Regional Office (PRO) 3's Cyber Patrol Team, the Lubao municipal police, and the Pampanga police.

Claudio, listed as the Top 1 Most Wanted Person in Central Luzon, is facing five counts of statutory rape.

Police said the warrants of a...