TACLOBAN CITY – A 12-year-old girl who went missing on National Teachers’ Day, Wednesday, Oct. 5, was found dead on Sunday, Oct. 9, in Barangay San Antonio, Basey, Samar. Her body was decomposing when it was found at 4 p.m. by a “tuba” (coconut wine) gatherer. Police identified the cadaver...
BACOLOD CITY – The Police Regional Office (PRO)-Western Visayas reported that licenses for a total of 7,901 assorted firearms here and in Negros Occidental were not renewed. At least 302 gunholders renew their firearm licenses during the two-day License To Own and Possess Firearm (LTOPF)...
ILOILO CITY – Two policemen helped a woman deliver her baby at her home in Sibunag, Guimaras on Friday, Oct. 7. Sibunag police chief Lt. Val Cambel and Corporal Joe Ben Moleño were on patrol when a woman asked them to help her niece in labor. They went to their house but the mother said...
CANDELARIA, Quezon – A Grade 8 student and an 18-year-old vulcanizing shop employee were gunned down by two men in Barangay Poblacion here on Saturday, Oct. 8. Candelaria police chief Lt. Col. Dennis de Leon identified the victims as Jimber Villarin Perez and Alexander Taliente Perez,...
CAMP Camp Tirso H. Gador, Tuguegarao City, Cagayan – Four more members of Anakpawis in this province voluntarily surrendered to the police on Friday, Oct. 7. Alias “Junie,”50, and “Jenna,” 66, yielded in Alcala. Two members surrendered in Amulung and Santa Teresita – alias “Zaldy,”...
MIDSAYAP, North Cotabato (PNA) – Two women were killed while three other women and three men were wounded in four separate attacks in Pikit and M’lang, North Cotabato in the past two days, police said on Saturday, Oct. 8. In M’lang, Lt. Col. Realan Mamon, town police chief, said Althea...
Two members of Anakpawis surrendered to the police in Rizal, Cagayan on Friday, Oct. 7. They were identified as “Lito,” 51, a laborer, and “Estong,” 73, farmer, both residents of Rizal, Cagayan. They told police that in 2016, an alias “Buting Adviento” told them that they will be given...
ILOILO CITY – Police Regional Office-6 chief Brig. Gen. Leo Francisco has ordered an in-depth probe on the attack against radio commentator Florencio “Flo” Hervias III here on Friday, Oct. 7. FIRST responders treat radio commentator Florencio ‘Flo’ Hervias III (seated) after he was...
CEBU CITY – Police on Wednesday, Oct. 5, arrested the man in a hit-and-run incident that killed a teacher and injured her husband in Minglanilla, Cebu on Tuesday, Oct. 4. The suspect was identified as Luigie Go Lazarte, 25. Police said the victim, Charisma Servado, a 45-year-old public school...
BAGUIO CITY – Police filed trespassing, forcible entry, and illegal possession of firearms and ammunition charges against 14 security guards for illegally occupying the cottage of the Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI) inside the Baguio Animal Breeding and Research Center (BABRC) in Purok 1, Barangay...
BACOLOD CITY – Police arrested a suspected drug pusher in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Tangub here on Thursday, Oct. 6. Major Joery Puerto, head of the Police Station 8, said the suspect, Ma. Glosita Guilaran, 52, of Barangay Tangub, is a street-level individual and yielded 27 grams of...
LUNA, Apayao – The Apayao Provincial Police Office taught writing and reading to Grade 7 students of Bac-da National High School in Barangay Bacsay here on Wednesday, Oct. 5. A POLICEMAN teaches a Grade 7 student at the Bac-da National High School in Barangay Bacsay, Luna, Apayao. The...
