A policeman was arrested for indiscriminate firing in Barangay Tuao North, Bagabag, Nueva Vizcaya on New Year's Day. Bagabag police identified suspect as Patrolman Abrio, 30, a member of the PNP-SAF based in Lamut, Ifugao and a resident of Mercedes, Eastern Samar Abrio was arrested after a...
Five persons were injured by firecrackers in Muntinlupa despite a total ban in the city amid the revelry to welcome the New Year on Dec. 31 and Jan. 1. Muntinlupa has an ordinance that totally banned the use and sale of firecrackers and pyrotechnic devices. Muntinlupa police chief...
Police nabbed three men with warrants of arrest and spent the New Year in jail in Pangasinan. Eduardo Corpuz, 44, a resident of Barangay Subosob, Rosario, La Union, was arrested for theft. He was taken to the Conrado F. Estrella Regional Medical and Trauma Center for medical examination and placed...
More firecrackers were seized while 60 persons were penalized for using open pipe mufflers in Muntinlupa on New Year’s Eve. According to the Muntinlupa City government, as of 5 p.m. on Dec. 31, nearly 4,000 pieces of firecrackers and pyrotechnic devices including 52 improvised “boga” were...
LINGAYEN, Pangasinan – The Pangasinan Police Provincial Office advised motorists to drive carefully this long New Year’s weekend. Police urged motorists to check not only their vehicles but also rest their body and mind before driving to prevent vehicular accidents. The Pangasinan PPO issued...
CALAPAN CITY, Oriental Mindoro – The Police Regional Office 4-B (Mimaropa or the Oriental Mindoro, Occidental Mindoro, Marinduque, Romblon, and Palawan area) will remain visible in all travel routes, transport terminals, and other places of convergence, including tourist sites, in the region....
Muntinlupa police have confiscated more than 1,500 pieces of firecrackers and pyrotechnic devices amid a ban in the city. Muntinlupa City Ordinance No. 14-092 prohibits “the manufacture, display, sale, distribution, possession or use of firecrackers or pyrotechnic devices and such other similar...
TUGUEGARAO CITY, Cagayan – Police on Friday, Dec. 30, destroyed all confiscated illegal firecrackers and pyrotechnics in Region 2 (Cagayan Valley) worth a total of P59, 715. Regional Civil Security Unit 2 assistant chief Lt. Col. Romulo Talay said these were picollo, poppop, five star,...
Two men, one of them a 62-year-old, were arrested by the police in a buy-bust operation in Taguig on Dec. 30. The Taguig police identified the suspects as Rasid Tiagon, 62, and Esmael Wakid, 40, who were arrested by members of the Drug Enforcement Unit at about 12:30 a.m. along Balanaken Street in...
A suspected member of a drug syndicate who yielded shabu (methamphetamine hydrochloride) was arrested by the police in Taguig City on Dec. 28. Personnel from the Taguig police’s Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) and Substation 6 conducted “Oplan Galugad” along Manggahan Street in Barangay...
CAMP Marcelo Adduru, Tuguegarao City, Cagayan – Police Regional Office 2 chief Brig. Gen. Percival Rumbaoa has warned citizens and police in Cagayan Valley against the indiscriminate firing of guns and use of illegal firecrackers to celebrate the New Year. RUMBAOA (Photo via Liezle Basa-Inigo)...
CORDILLERA region police chief Mafelino Bazar (left) during a visit to a police station in Benguet. (FB) CAMP DANGWA, Benguet – Police Regional Office-Cordillera chief Brig. Gen. Mafelino Bazar on Tuesday, Dec. 26, said that Christmas in the region was generally peaceful. "We have not monitored...
