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GENERAL SANTOS CITY — The Department of Energy has ordered an investigation into the anomalous unloading of more than five million liters of petroleum products worth P250 million into the oil depot owned by Seaoil Philippines in Barangay Bawing this city.

GENERAL SANTOS CITY — Presidential aspirant Sen. Manny Pacquiao has warned to send to jail corrupt public officials should he win the presidency in next year’s elections.

GENERAL SANTOS CITY – Local authorities arrested at least seven people who presented fake vaccination cards at the airport here last Saturday, November 27. Assistant city health officer Lalaine Calonzo said the suspects arrived in the same group from Manila aboard Cebu Pacific aircraft and were held by police aviation security personnel after they presented fake vaccination cards. The local Inter-Agency Task Force vs. Covid-19 has issued standing policy to exempt fully vaccinated arriving passengers from the mandatory 14-day quarantine. Calonzo said the suspects were brought to an isolation facility in Barangay Fatima for custody and they will be subjected to RT-PCR test on Monday. Police are set to file charges for falsification of public documents against he suspects most them are members of the Indigenous Peoples.

GENERAL SANTOS CITY — A member of Civilian Armed Forces Geographical Unit (CAFGU) is facing charges for the killing of his own son who ran amuck and tried to attack him in Alabel, Sarangani last Tuesday.

GENERAL SANTOS CITY — Local disaster officials have launched rescue operations on more than 200 families who were trapped during flashfloods in Glan, Sarangani province last Friday.

KIAMBA, Sarangani — The provincial government has distributed Global Positioning System with fish finder devices and life vest worth P265,000 to local fisherfolks from the two villages of this municipality.

KORONADAL CITY, SOUTH COTABATO- Authorities are eyeing a work-related angle as a possible motive in the killing of a human rights lawyer in Surallah, South Cotabato last September 15.

PALIMBANG, SULTAN KUDARAT – The leadership of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front has diffused the tension between its warring members the past days here and in nearby Maitum town in Sarangani.

GENERAL SANTOS CITY – Security forces were deployed on Sunday, August 29, in Palimbang, Sultan Kudarat and Maitum, Sarangani to diffuse the tension between the warring groups of Moro Islamic Liberation Front members the past days.

KORONADAL CITY, South Cotabato – Police have filed murder charges against a woman for killing her nine-month-old niece while under her custody as a nanny here last Wednesday.

NORTH COTABATO – Security forces arrested on Monday a member of a local terror group who was tagged responsible for the burning and bomb attack of passenger buses in the towns of Tulunan and M’lang that killed five people and injured several others.

GENERAL SANTOS CITY – Police arrested last Saturday former two-time Philippine champion Eden Sonsona during a drug-bust operation conducted by police operatives in Barangay apopong, this city.

GENERAL SANTOS CITY – A suspected gunman in the killing of Brigada media network executive surrendered on Monday to police authorities.

GENERAL SANTOS CITY – Police are eyeing personal grudge as possible motive in the killing of a top executive of the Brigada media network here last Friday.

M’LANG, Cotabato – Police tagged a local terror group as responsible for the burning of a passenger bus here last Thursday, June 3, in which three passengers were killed and six others injured.

NORTH COTABATO – Security forces captured two siblings who lead a local armed group which had links with a local terror group following a six-hour firefight in Pikit town on Sunday.

GENERAL SANTOS CITY – Police intelligence operatives arrested the wife of the slain leader of the local terrorist group Ansar Al-Khilafah in Kiamba, Sarangani last Thursday.

GENERAL SANTOS CITY – The city government had ordered the closure of a beach resort owned by the family of Mayor Ronnel Rivera for grossly violating health protocols after a melee broke out during a concert held at the resort last April 17.