CANDELARIA, Quezon – Police said an alleged gun-for-hire was apprehended during a manhunt operation in Barangay Masalukot II, this town, on Tuesday morning, Dec. 9. The suspect, Vic, 64, was listed as the Calabarzon region’s No. 1 most wanted person for his alleged involvement in three murders...
BACOLOD CITY - Police Col. Joeresty Coronica, Bacolod police director, revealed that 13 shooting incidents in this highly-urbanized city since 2021 were connected to a suspected gun-for-hire recently arrested in Sipalay City, Negros Occidental. In a press briefing on Wednesday, Sept. 24, Coronica...
CEBU CITY – At least 16 gun-for-hire groups in Central Visayas were dismantled in the first eight months of this year, the Police Regional Office-Central Visayas (PRO-7) reported. Eighteen were arrested and 12 members were killed in police operations. Thirty-five firearms and two grenades were...
CALAUAG, Quezon – An alleged gun-for hire and drug pusher was killed in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Sumilang here on Thursday afternoon, Aug. 21. Quezon police director Police Col. Romulo Albacea identified the suspect as Kenneth de Guzman Buñales. Buñales’ companion was also killed in...
BUTUAN CITY – Police have arrested two men wanted for the murder of a 24-year-old male pageant contender in Cagayan de Oro City two years ago. The suspects were arrested on July 3 in Pagadian City, Zamboanga del Sur, police said in a statement Monday. The suspects aged 35, a nurse, and 37, a...
CEBU CITY – A suspected member of a gun-for-hire group was arrested in a buy-bust operation at dawn on Thursday, March 27, in Barangay Mambaling here. Police identified the suspect as Nathaniel Sermillon Cenabre, 19, a member of the Gibo gun-for-hire group. A recent police operation resulted in...
CEBU CITY – Five hitmen, including the suspected leader of a gun-for-hire-group and three alleged members, were arrested in separate police operations here. POLICE Brig. Gen. Redrico Maranan (left), chief of the Police Regional Office-Central Visayas, and Police Col. Enrico Figueroa (second from...
CEBU CITY – Eight alleged members of a gun-for-hire group were arrested in a series of police operations here. POLICE Brig. Gen. Redrico Maranan, chief of the Police Regional Office-Central Visayas, talks to suspected members of a gun-for-hire group who were arrested in recent police...
Sen. Grace Poe called for the passage of the bill to legalize and regulate motorcycles-for-hire as a safe mode of transportation. "The motorcycle-for-hire bill has been through the long and winding road to passage. Our tank is full," Poe said during the hearing of the Senate Committee on Public...
GENERAL SANTOS CITY – Two suspected hitmen were killed during a police raid in their hideout on Wednesday, September 11, here, hours after they allegedly gunned down a businesswoman in this city. Police Col. Nicomedes Olaivar, city police director, identified the suspects as Jessie Semini...
BANNA, Ilocos Norte – A suspected gun-for-hire was killed in a broad daylight ambush in Barangay Tabtabagan here on Sunday, September 1. Police identified the victim as Isaac Casay, 54, alias Bigso, of Poblacion 1, Adams, Ilocos Norte and Barangay Santo Niño, Nueva Era, Ilocos Norte. Casay...
(Mark Balmores/MANILA BULLETIN) Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte says the recently approved measure regulating the operation of motorcycle taxis assures the safety of commuters with this increasingly popular mode of public...
