GENERAL SANTOS CITY – Police arrested on Saturday, November 11, a laborer who allegedly torched several vehicles parked on the streets in the downtown area here before dawn on Friday, November 10. Police Col. Nicomedes Olaivar, city police director, said the suspect, Keydence Clark...
GENERAL SANTOS CITY – Police dismantled a drug syndicate operating in this city and Sarangani following the arrest of three suspected members in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Bula here on November 7. Police Brig. Gen. Jimili Macaraeg, Police Regional Office-12 director, identified the...
GENERAL SANTOS CITY – Police are eyeing land conflict as a possible motive in the murder of a Marine reservist by motorcycle-riding gunmen in Barangay Sinawal, this city, on Friday, September 22. Police Major Carl Jayson Baynosa, Police Station 2 commander, said they are looking at a land...
(Unsplash) When Filipinos think of General Santos City in South Cotabato, they think about tuna. The House of Representatives members who attended plenary session Monday night, Sept. 18 thought of the same thing, as all 249 of them at the time of...
GENERAL SANTOS CITY – Authorities have intensified anti-smuggling operations following the seizure of 1,700 reams of smuggled cigarettes loaded in three mini-van cargo trucks estimated to be worth P19 million in a military checkpoint in Barangay Bawing, this city, last week. Col. Ruben...
GENERAL SANTOS CITY – A suspected robbery gang member was killed after he shot it out with policemen who tried to serve an arrest warrant against him in his safehouse in Barangay Fatima, this city, on Saturday, August 19. Police Col. Nicomedes Olaivar, newly installed city police director,...
GENERAL SANTOS CITY – Dismayed over the spate of summary killings, Mayor Lorelie Pacquiao here has given the city police director 20 days to shape up or he will be shipped out. Pacquiao gave the stern warning to Police Col. Jomar Alexis Yap amid the series of shooting incidents in this city...
GENERAL SANTOS CITY – Police arrested an alleged member of the Ansar Al-Khilafah terror group here on Wednesday, July 5. Police Col. Jomar Alexis Yap, city police director, identified the suspect as Wahab Binago Tacbil from Palimbang, Sultan Kudarat. Tacbil was arrested in his safehouse in Purok...
GENERAL SANTOS CITY – A political officer of the New People’s Army has surrendered and was presented to Mayor Lorelie Pacquiao here on Thursday, June 15. Col. Andre Santos, 1st Mechanized Infantry Brigade commander, identified the surrenderer as “Akai,” also a media liaison officer of the...
GENERAL SANTOS CITY – A police intelligence agent was shot dead in Barangay North here on Wednesday night, May 17. Police Col. Joemar Alexis Yap, city police director, identified the victim as Police Senior Master Sgt. Peterselier Licanto, assigned to the Sarangani Provincial Police Office....
GENERAL SANTOS CITY – Local health authorities have allayed fears of a possible outbreak of dengue amid the rising cases of the dreaded disease here. City health Officer Lalaine Calonzo stressed that there was no basis for the declaration of an outbreak despite the 501 percent increase of dengue...
GENERAL SANTOS CITY – Police are eyeing love triangle as possible motive in the killing of a police intelligence agent while he was dining inside a restaurant in Barangay Calumpang here on April 20. Lawmen have arrested the suspected mastermind and gunman in the killing of Police Corporal Razul...
