ZAMBOANGA CITY – A medical representative was shot dead here on Sunday night, Dec. 14. Police identified the victim as 43-year-old Nicolai Torres Asistido. Investigation said the victim was talking to a companion on Calle Real St. in Barangay Mercedes when a man onboard a motorcycle appeared and...
TACLOBAN CITY – A retired police officer was shot dead in Calbayog City on Saturday, Dec. 13. The Police Regional Office-8 strongly condemned the murder. Investigation said the victim was gunned down in a cockpit arena. His last assignment was Lope de Vega town, Northern Samar province where he...
PIDDIG, Ilocos Norte – A barangay kagawad was stabbed and wounded by a fellow village official during a parking dispute in Barangay Abucay here on Friday, police said. Police Major Kristian Lee Badua, chief of the Piddig Municipal Police Station, identified the victim as Kagawad Baptista. Badua...
A woman was shot dead in Cabuyao City, Laguna province, on Saturday, Dec. 13. Police identified the victim as Rose Ann. The victim was sitting in front of the main gate of Citadel Subdivision, Purok 3, Barangay Mamatid, at about 10:35 p.m. when two unidentified men wearing black jackets and riding...
BACOLOD CITY – A 45-year-old policeman killed by the New People’s Army (NPA) in Calatrava town, Negros Occidental province was laid to rest in his hometown of Toboso, Negros Occidental on Saturday, Dec. 13. Personnel of the Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office rendered a solemn 21-gun...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Police are investigating the murder of former Mangalut Barangay Captain Haji Malik Aru of Akbar municipality, Basilan province in Isabela City, Basilan on Thursday, Dec. 11. Investigation showed that the gunman approached the victim on the Lamitan-Isabela Highway in Sitio Pilar,...
CEBU CITY – A Special Investigation Task Group (SITG) has been formed to speed up the investigation on the killing of a Bureau of Internal Revenue lawyer in Mandaue City on Thursday morning, Dec. 11. The SITG is still establishing possible motives in the killing of Duke Ramil Perral Lincuna, said...
TUGUEGARAO CITY, Cagayan – Police arrested a suspect in the murder and robbery of a couple in the town of Diffun, Quirino province last July. The suspect Buddy was listed as the ninth most wanted person in Region 2 (Cagayan Valley). He was apprehended on Thursday, Dec. 11, in Purok 2, Barangay...
The Philippine National Police (PNP) reported a 12.86-percent decline in the number of crime incidents which it attributed to the stronger collaboration between the police and communities. In a statement Friday, Dec. 12, Police Lt. Gen. Jose Melencio Nartatez Jr., acting PNP chief, said that index...
CEBU CITY – A 24-year-old man brutally killed his ex-girlfriend in a fit of jealousy inside a house in Barangay Carreta here at dawn Thursday, Dec. 11. Police said Christian Labarez bashed her girlfriend’s head with a hammer before stabbing her. The victim was identified as Percy Paculaba, 24....
CEBU CITY – Motorcycle-riding assailants gunned down a Bureau of Internal Revenue lawyer early Thursday morning, Dec. 11, in Mandaue City, Cebu province. Duke Ramil Perral Lincuna was driving an Isuzu Crosswind when he was attacked around 6 a.m. on a busy road in Barangay Bakilid. A motorist was...
NASUGBU, Batangas – Police have arrested one of three suspects in the murder of a vendor and his six-year-old daughter here on Sunday. The suspect was identified as Mark, 23, jobless, with a live-in partner, and a resident of Barangay Malapad na Bato, Nasugbu. Mark was apprehended on Wednesday...
