COTABATO CITY – Authorities arrested two suspected drug pushers and seized shabu worth P3.4 million in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Poblacion 8 here on Thursday, May 4. Suspects were identified as Solaiman Mohammad, 26, and Bayan Akmad, 42. Seized from them were 500 grams of suspected...
ILIGAN CITY – Authorities seized high-powered firearms during a checkpoint at Grebona Patrol Base on the Bukidnon-Alamada-Libungan Highway in Libungan, North Cotabato on Thursday morning, May 4. The 34th Infantry Battalion and Libungan police flagged down a silver Toyota Vios with license plates ...
KIDAPAWAN CITY (PNA) – Four armed robbery suspects were killed during a police pursuit operation in M’lang, North Cotabato on Thursday night, April 27, police said. In a radio interview on Friday, April 28, Police Lt. Col. Realan Mamon, M’lang police chief, said three of the six suspects...
COTABATO CITY (PNA) – An off-duty police officer died instantly after his car collided head-on with a pick-up vehicle on the national highway in Kabacan, North Cotabato on Wednesday night, April 26. POLICE Corporal Teodolfo Garavilles’ car. (Kabacan MPS photo via PNA) Police Capt. Razul Pandulo,...
T’BOLI, South Cotabato – Operatives of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency and policemen raided a suspected drug den in Barangay New Dumangas here on Tuesday, April 25, which led to the arrest of its maintainer and two other cohorts. PDEA-12 Director Aileen Lovitos identified the suspects as...
DAVAO CITY – Mayor Juanito Agustin of Pigcawayan town, Cotabato province has stepped in to resolve the infighting of armed Moro groups in Barangay Simsiman to prevent further escalation of the conflict into neighboring areas. Agustin told Manila Bulletin over the phone that he had spoken with the...
KABACAN, North Cotabato (PNA) – Two youngsters drowned while seven others were rescued after they swam on a river dam here on Thursday afternoon, April 13. THE river dam in Barangay Kilada, Matalam, North Cotabato where two students drowned on Thursday, April 13. (Kabacan LGU FB) Two others were...
Unidentified gunmen killed an anti-drug cop in Kabacan, North Cotabato on Tuesday night, April 11. Police Col. Harold Ramos, Cotabato police director, identified the victim as Police Staff Sgt. Abejay Dandan, 35, assigned to the Provincial Drug Enforcement Unit of the Cotabato Police Provincial...
TULUNAN, Cotabato – The leader of a lawless armed group and his four cohorts were killed in an encounter with the police Wednesday morning, April 12, in Barangay Dungos, this town. Brig. Gen. Jamili Macaraeg, Police Regional Office-12 director, said police were implementing warrants of arrest...
COTABATO CITY – A dispatcher tested positive for shabu during a random drug test conducted on Maundy Thursday by authorities on more than 100 Public Utility Vehicle drivers, conductors, and dispatchers in a public terminal here. Christian Fivaldo, director of the Philippine Drug Enforcement...
KORONADAL CITY, South Cotabato – Two miners died and another was injured after they were trapped inside a mining tunnel which collapsed in the gold-rush area of T’boli, South Cotabato on Monday, April 3. Police identified the fatalities as Vincent Allega, 24, and Erwin Sawan, 27, while the...
POLOMOLOK, South Cotabato (PNA) – Mayor Bernie Palencia has issued an order implementing curfew hours in this town as part of preventive measures against crimes. In a statement on Friday, March 24, the mayor said curfew hours are from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m. Palencia issued the order on Thursday, March...