LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – Brig. Gen. Mafelino Bazar, Police Regional Office-Cordillera chief, reported that 92 individuals were arrested and 1,149 assorted guns were seized in the intensified campaign against loose firearms in the region in 2022. Bazar said the Kalinga Provincial Police Office had...
GENERAL SANTOS CITY – Police arrested on Friday, Jan. 6, an Indonesian and two Filipinos for transporting unlicensed high-powered firearms in Kiamba, Sarangani. Major Ludovico Rendaje, Kiamba police chief, identified the suspects as Indonesian Anton Gobay, 29, and his Filipino companions...
CEBU CITY — Suspected shabu worth P7.1-million was seized while more than 100 drug suspects were arrested in simultaneous police operations in Central Visayas on Sunday, Dec. 18. A total of 107 anti-illegal drug operations were conducted in the region-wide police operations dubbed as Simultaneous...
CABUYAO CITY, Laguna – A man working in a car wash shop was collared for possession of a loose firearm in Barangay Banlic on Wednesday, Nov. 30. Cabuyao City Police Station (CPS) identified the suspect as alias Dominic, a resident of Cabuyao. The police conducted a follow-up operation after...
BIÑAN CITY, Laguna – Authorities arrested two suspects for violating the Comprehensive Firearms and Ammunition Regulation Act in two search warrant operations in Barangay Langkiwa on Saturday, Nov. 26. Biñan City Police Station (CPS) operatives arrested alias Ruben and confiscated...
PADRE GARCIA, Batangas – Police arrested a 29-year-old gardener after he yielded suspected shabu valued at P836,000 and guns during a raid in Barangay Bukal here on Friday, Nov. 18. POLICE inventory pieces of evidence from Marco Amparo after the raid. (Batangas police photo) Batangas Police...
TARLAC CITY – Police arrested three suspected gunrunners in Concepcion, Tarlac on Wednesday, Nov. 16. Lt. Col. Warly Bitog of the Tarlac Police Provincial Office identified the suspects as Lolito Pineda, 44; Wilfredo Puno, 55, and Aldrin Larete, 47. The suspects were arrested after they sold...
Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Benjamin ‘Benhur’ Abalos Jr. has ordered the Philippine National Police (PNP) to intensify the campaign to account loose firearms in the country. Abalos explained that loose firearms are usually being used for criminal activities....
PARANG, Maguindanao (PNA) – One-hundred eighteen assorted firearms, including those owned by a losing vice mayoral bet, were seized across the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) since last week. Police Brig. Gen. Arthur Cabalona, BARMM police director, said Friday, July 8,...
BACOLOD CITY - A youth peasant organizer of Anakbayan Negros was arrested for alleged illegal possession of firearm, ammunition, and explosives in Barangay Camang-Camang, Isabela, Negros Occidental on Saturday, Feb. 19. A youth peasant organizer of Anakbayan Negros was arrested for alleged illegal...
The campaign to ensure the peaceful and honest conduct of the 2022 elections is on the right track with the series of operations that led to the arrest of gun-runners and members of partisan armed groups and the confiscation of loose guns, the Philippine National Police (PNP) assured on Sunday,...
Gen. Guillermo Eleazar, Chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), called for a thorough investigation Friday, September 10, into the discovery of an arms cache in three separate law enforcement operations in Quezon City and Bulacan. PNP Chief Gen. Guillermo Eleazar (File photo) Eleazar said...