BACOLOD CITY – A suspected drug pusher was arrested and 125 grams of shabu valued at P850,000 was seized in a buy-bust operation in Tanjay City, Negros Oriental on Thursday, Dec. 15. The Police Regional Office 7 identified the suspect as Charlito Lado Jr., 40, of Barangay Tugas, Tanjay City. Also...
Police forces in Central Visayas have confiscated more than P13 million worth of illegal drugs in just a span of one week following an intensified anti-illegal drugs campaign in the region. Police Brig. Gen. Roderick Augustus Alba, director of the Police Regional Office 7, said the series of...
Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Benjamin ‘Benhur’ Abalos Jr. defended on Sunday, Dec. 17, the government’s illegal drug drive amid criticisms that the current drug war is too weak. Abalos said the campaign against illegal drugs today is geared towards due...
San Juan City Mayor Francis Zamora said the city is soon to be the National Capital Region’s (NCR’s) first drug-cleared city after all 21 of its barangays have been provisionally declared drug-free by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA). Zamora made the announcement in an interview...
San Juan City Mayor Francis Zamora said the city is soon to be the National Capital Region's (NCR's) first drug-cleared city after all 21 of its barangays have been provisionally declared drug-free by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA). Zamora made the announcement in an interview with...
REAL, Quezon – Police seized shabu worth P1.2 million and cocaine valued at P950,000 from a suspected drug pusher in a buy-bust operation in Purok Daus, Barangay Poblacion 61, here on Tuesday, Dec. 13. The suspect was identified as Jomer Lucera Nera, 45, alias "Palits," a resident of Purok...
Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Benjamin ‘Benhur’ Abalos Jr. has rejected the proposed decriminalization of drug use, as he insisted that it would not help the government’s intense campaign against illegal drugs. He issued the pronouncement in reaction to...
Over 200 Filipino and foreign stakeholders have supported the Manila Declaration on Creating Alternatives to Incarceration (ATI) Systems in the country, which expands the access to evidence-based health treatment for drug users and discharge reforms for an improved criminal justice system. The...
Government anti-narcotics arrested on Tuesday afternoon, Dec. 13, an alleged drug pusher in a buy-bust in Zamboanga City. The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency Regional Office IX (PDEA RO IX) said Abdulhan Kallon Burahan was collared at around 3:40 p.m. after selling 50 grams of shabu to an...
Brig. Gen. Roderick Augustus Alba, director of the Police Regional Office 7, warned all policemen in Central Visayas that their entire unit would suffer if any of them is caught recycling confiscated illegal drugs. Alba issued the statement on Wednesday, Dec. 14, following the arrest of the head of...
CAMP DANGWA, Benguet -- Eight drug personalities were arrested in an anti-illegal drugs operation in Cordillera from Dec. 4 to Dec 10. Brig. General Mafelino Bazar, director of the Police Regional Office- Cordillera, said that based the Regional Operations Division (ROD), the Baguio City Police...
The inter-agency cooperation is a major force in the country’s continuing fight against all forms of criminality like illegal drugs, Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Benjamin ‘Benhur’ Abalos Jr. said on Monday, Dec. 12. Abalos emphasized the need to support the...
