A barangay chairman and three others were arrested on Thursday (Aug. 26) for allegedly stealing Social Amelioration Program (SAP) funds in Sta. Mesa, Manila. (mp Police identified the suspects as Mario F. Simbulan, 73, Barangay 608 chairman; Ma. Cristina D. Zara, 53, barangay councilor; Isagani B....
Combined elements of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) arrested Wednesday, August 25 four pushers and seized P3.4 million worth of shabu during a buy-bust operation in a parking lot of a mall in Alabang, Muntinlupa. PDEA spokesperson Derrick...
Not even the threat of the deadly coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is discouraging drug pushers from selling shabu. On Monday, operatives of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) arrested a drug pusher and seized some P384,000 worth of shabu during a buy-bust operation in Batangas. In a Viber...
Operatives of the Bureau of Immigration (BI) have arrested three South Koreans who are on the agency's list of wanted fugitives and overstaying staying aliens in the Philippines. (Photo from BI Facebook page) In a report to Immigration Commissioner Jaime Morente, the BI’s fugitive search unit...
At least six people were arrested when combined elements of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA), Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) police and the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) raided a suspected drug den in Port Area in Manila on Tuesday, July 27. PDEA Regional Office-National Capital...
Ten members of Partido Manggagawa were apprehended on Monday in Caloocan City while on their way to a protest rally inside the University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman campus for President Duterte's State of the Nation Address (SONA). Caloocan City Police Substation 8 commander Maj. Joey Hizon...
A member of the Makati City Public Safety Department (PSD), who allegedly extorted P200,000 from a restaurant-bar owner in Barangay Poblacion, was arrested by policemen on Thursday night (July 23) during an entrapment operation in Makati City. (Photos courtesy of Makati City Police) Police...
LIMA, Peru – Nine people, including public hospital staff, have been arrested in Peru accused of "selling" intensive care beds to desperate coronavirus patients for thousands of dollars apiece, police and prosecutors said Thursday. ICUBEDS PHOTO The nine, which also included the directors of...
At least 31 illegal wildlife traders have been arrested between March 2020 and May 2021, or practically since the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic began. CAGED--Umbrella cockatoos have been among the species recovered by DENR agents from illegal wildlife traders who continue to ply their...
Police seized on Tuesday a cache of high-caliber guns in an entrapment operation that led to the arrest of a 33-year-old man who was reportedly selling illegal firearms via social media site Facebook. NPD-PIO The Northern Police District (NPD), which launched the operation, identified the suspect...
Three female drug peddlers and their male cohort were arrested by members of the Pasay City police during a drug buy-bust operation after they yielded more than P100,000 worth of shabu. Col. Cesar Paday-os, Pasay City's police chief, identified the suspects as Janice Braga, 31, of 374 G. Villanueva...
Almost P1 million worth of shabu was seized by the Eastern Police District-Drug Enforcement Unit (EPD-DEU) from a couple who are into drug peddling in Pasig City, Monday night (May 31), a belated police report released on Wednesday (June 2) showed. Maj. Darwin Guerrero, EPD-DEU chief, identified...
