BACOLOD CITY – Police arrested a young hitman in a pension house in Barangay 32 here on Saturday, Jan. 21. The suspect was identified as Jonathan Divinagracia, alias ‘’Atan,’’ 21, of Purok Sigay, Barangay 2 here. Lt. Col. Sherlock Gabana, spokesperson of the Bacolod police, said that...
CAMP OLIVAS, City of San Fernando, Pampanga – A former police officer wanted for double murder was arrested in Pulilan, Bulacan on Monday, Jan. 23. Police arrested the suspect, William Reed, 57, in Barangay Poblacion. He was listed as a most wanted person of the Department of Interior and Local...
ZAMBOANGA CITY (PNA) – A 30-year-old man was arrested while securing police clearance for employment here on Friday, Jan. 20. Lt. Col. Felix Martinez, 1st Zamboanga City Mobile Force Company (1ZCMFC) commander, said Argal Kasim Amirul was arrested at around 2:32 p.m. at the clearance section...
PINUKPUK, Kalinga – Police arrested three persons who posed as National Bureau of Investigation employees for extorting P10,000 from a funfair owner in Tumauini, Isabela on Thursday, Jan. 19. A report to Brig. Gen. Mafelino Bazar, Police Regional Office-Cordillera director, from Col. Charles...
LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – Police arrested a 60-year-old pastor wanted for murder in Benguet in Sitio Balantog, Barangay Poblacion, Luba, Abra on Wednesday, Jan. 18. Col. Damian Olsim, Benguet police chief, identified the suspect as Melchor Langbayan Balance, a resident of Barangay Ol-olingen,...
CAMP Francisco S. Macabulos, Tarlac City – Police arrested seven suspected members of a robbery gang in a hot-pursuit operation that started in Barangay Santo Domingo 2nd, Capas, Tarlac and ended in Moncada, Tarlac before dawn on Friday, Jan. 20. Capas police received a report about a...
BAGUIO CITY – Police arrested a 50-year-old technician wanted for frustrated murder in Magalang, Pampanga here on Monday, Jan. 16. Col. Francisco Bulwayan, city police chief, identified the suspect as Antonio Gomez Benigno Jr., a resident of Lower Quirino Hill here. Bulwayan said Benigno was...
DAVAO CITY – Police arrested two vloggers after they pranked an attendant of a gasoline station in Mawab town in Davao de Oro on Wednesday for their online content. In a report released on Thursday, Jan. 19, the personnel of the Mawab Police Station arrested Jonel C. Cordero and his accomplice...
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – Police arrested two barangay chairmen wanted for murder in Don Carlos, Bukidnon on Tuesday, Jan. 17. The Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG)-Camiguin Provincial Field Unit identified the suspects as Saturnino Cuesta, 55, chairman of Barangay Mahayahay, Don...
Police nabbed 53 law violators from Jan. 9 to 15 in Tarlac province. Twenty-five persons wanted for various crimes were arrested in manhunt operations. Ten individuals were nabbed while 42 plastic sachets containing suspected shabu with an estimated value of P11,206 were confiscated in anti-illegal...
LUCENA CITY – Police arrested three suspected drug pushers and seized shabu valued at P1.3 million in a buy-bust operation in Purok Talabis, Barangay Ibabang Iyam, here on Sunday night, Jan. 15. Suspect Maricris Deocales, a high-value individual; Niel Jansen Igloria, and Rodrigo Brondo were...
SIXTEEN grams of suspected shabu worth P108,800 were seized from a barber in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Singcang-Airport, Bacolod City on Sunday, Jan. 15. (Photo courtesy of Llanee Zil Menardo) BACOLOD CITY – Police arrested a barber and seized 16 grams of suspected shabu worth...