Malacañang said the government is open to investigating alleged drug-related killings under President Marcos if concrete evidence is presented. Presidential Communications Office (PCO) Undersecretary Claire Castro said this after Nicholas Kaufman, the counsel of former president Rodrigo Duterte in...
A common representative of the victims of the Duterte administration’s deadly war on drugs has reminded judges and the public that they are not mere statistics but human beings whose rights have been violated “in the most profound ways.” Paolina Massida on Tuesday, Feb. 24, represented...
Former president Rodrigo Duterte was indeed “not joking” when he said that, under his presidency, funeral homes would make a lot of money from his deadly war on drugs, which saw children reduced to bodies that funeral homes could profit from, an International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor...
Former president Rodrigo Duterte 's lead defense counsel Nicholas Kaufman has alleged that President Marcos was "set out to neutralize" his predecessor and his legacy. "So it is indeed the defense case that President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. set out to neutralize Rodrigo Duterte and his legacy,"...
The Senate will discuss, among others, Sen. Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa’s absence from plenary sessions in an all-senators’ caucus on Monday, February 23. Senate President Pro Tempore Panfilo “Ping” Lacson disclosed this in a statement on Saturday, saying senators see the necessity of...
ILOILO CITY—Police seized suspected shabu worth P39.4 million in Western Visayas from Feb. 1 to 15. Police Regional Office-6 chief Police Brig. Gen. Josefino Ligan said 5.8 kilos of shabu were recovered from 86 drug suspects in 65 anti-drug operations. Thirty-four suspects were considered...
TACLOBAN CITY – A dismissed cop and a woman were nabbed in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Poblacion District 3, Babatngon, Leyte on Tuesday, Feb. 17. Police identified the suspects as Fred, 55, Eastern Visayas’ Rank 1 Regional Priority Target List (RPTL), and Gela, 21, resident of Babatngon...
ILOILO CITY—Another barangay captain in northern Iloilo province was caught in an anti-drug operation over the weekend with nearly P1.5-million worth of suspected shabu from his possession. Authorities identified the suspect as Kap Redan of Barangay Bondulan in San Dionisio town. Recovered from...
BACOLOD CITY – A 23-year-old man was apprehended in a buy-bust operation in Purok Paraiso, Barangay Banago, this city, on Thursday, Feb. 12, becoming the fifth member of his family to be arrested for drug peddling. The City Drug Enforcement Unit (CDEU) arrested the suspect, Janjan, listed as a...
A four-month pregnant woman was arrested during a buy-bust operation in Barangay Masoc, Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya on Thursday. Seized by the police from the 20-year-old suspect were four sachets of suspected shabu weighing 15 grams and valued at P102,000, buy-bust money, cellphone, and and drug...
ILOILO CITY – All 110 police chiefs in Western Visayas region tested negative in mandatory drug testing this week. The Police Regional Office-6 said that no police commander in Aklan, Antique, Capiz, Guimaras, and Iloilo provinces as well as the capital of Iloilo City was found to be using...
CEBU CITY – Instead of transporting parcels, a 43-year-old delivery boy was selling drugs in different areas in Bohol province. After weeks of surveillance, Peter John Dote was arrested in a buy-bust operation past midnight on Friday, Jan. 30, in Purok 5, Barangay Libaong, Panglao. Police seized...
