COTABATO CITY – Authorities arrested two businessmen on Monday and confiscated over P20.7-million worth of suspected shabu in Picong, Lanao del Sur, police said Tuesday. In a report, Police Brig. Gen. Jaysen de Guzman, director of the Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region (PRO-BAR),...
TACLOBAN CITY – Albuera, Leyte Mayor Kerwin Espinosa demonstrated his commitment to making his hometown drug-free through the recent opening of the Balay Silangan Reformation Center in the municipality. In a statement on Friday, the mayor said the center, inaugurated on March 3, is designed to...
Police arrested three suspects and confiscated more than P1.08 million worth of suspected shabu in separate anti-drug operations in Caloocan City and Makati City. Operatives of the Station Drug Enforcement Unit of the Caloocan City Police Station (SDEU-CCPS) arrested a 40-year-old female suspect...
CEBU CITY – A habal-habal or modified motorcycle driver was caught with one kilo of suspected shabu during a buy-bust operation in Lapu-Lapu City. The 26-year-old suspect, a resident of Barangay Candulawan, Talisay City, was arrested by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Central Visayas...
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...
