CAMP OLIVAS, City of San Fernando, Pampanga -- Central Luzon cops arrested two suspected drug peddlers and seized more than P400,000 worth of shabu during an anti-illegal drug operation in Nueva Ecija on Wednesday morning, April 20. (Photo courtesy of the PNP via Liezle Inigo) Operatives from the...
LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – A weeklong anti-illegal drug operation paid off as operatives destroyed marijuana plantation valued at P14,854,000 and arrested 15 people engaged in illegal drugs trading in separate buy-bust operations in Cordillera. Records from the Benguet Provincial Police Office...
BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya -- An online seller of RTW items who had been under surveillance allegedly for selling illegal drugs was arrested during a buy-bust operation in Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya. Police identified the suspect as Jacqueline Mannag @JEN/Jacky, 30, and resident of Ponce Gym Ext. Purok...
CALAPAN CITY, Oriental Mindoro – Four drug suspects were arrested on Sunday, April 17, 2022, including three in a buy-bust operation, and one at a Commission on Elections (Comelec) checkpoint in Occidental Mindoro. Twenty-two year-old Raniel Liedo, a vacationer from Tondo, Manila is being frisked...
MANKAYAN, Benguet -- A drug courier died after a shootout with police in an encounter that took place early morning of Saturday, April 16, in Pas-adan, Colalo, Mankayan. (Photo courtesy of Mankayan MPS/via Zaldy Comanda) Maj. Wiltz Konrad Sally, chief of police of the Mankayan Municipal Police...
ILOILO CITY – The Police Regional Office (PRO-6) kept its anti-drug operations going even during the observance of Holy Week as its operatives caught a couple in possession of shabu worth P380,000 in Pavia town, Iloilo province. Arrested during a Black Saturday operation were Emil Buyco Sansolis...
The more than 700 police officers who were involved in the illegal drug trade should not only be dismissed from service, but they must also be prosecuted and jailed, human rights lawyer Chel Diokno said. Human rights lawyer Chel Diokno (Photo from Diokno’s Facebook page) Diokno made the remark...
CAMP OLIVAS, City of San Fernando, Pampanga – Police authorities arrested a suspected drug peddler and seized more than P360,000 worth of shabu during a buy-bust operation on Wednesday (April 13) at Brgy. San Nicolos, Manalin, Pampanga. Photo via Liezle Basa Inigo Joint elements of Minalin Police...
Amy Austria has come out to reveal how she overcame several years of her relying on illegal drugs simply to get by. In a vlog, the actress shared how she did not via forced rehabilitation but simply by praying in earnest. It happened, she said, while she was on a spiritual retreat. “Isinurender...
President Duterte on Tuesday said he does not like the next president to be influenced by the communists as well as to have links with illegal drugs. Duterte reiterated that he "will not support any presidential candidate" for the upcoming elections except "if there is a compelling reason to...
BAGUIO CITY – The Baguio City Jail male dorm reported that some 57 percent of the 390 persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) are facing charges before the local court for violation of pertinent provisions of Republic Act (RA) 9165 or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002. (Photo from Rizaldy...
CEBU CITY -- At least 300 bus drivers, taxi drivers and conductors underwent a surprise drug test as part of the authorities’ campaign to ensure safe travel this coming Holy Week. Dubbed as Oplan Harabas, the conduct of the surprise drug test at the Cebu North Bus Terminal and Cebu South Bus...