CAVITE – Authorities here arrested a man who allegedly held hostage his own three-year-old child amid a squabble with his wife in Silang on March 9. In an interview with the Manila Bulletin on Tuesday, March 14, Patrolman Zeus Gabriel Belando and Corporal Ralph Jason Santos of Silang Municipal...
A mother and two children were rescued by members of the Manila Police District (MPD) from a hostage-taker at the corner of Herbosa and Franco Streets in Tondo, Manila on Friday evening, Jan. 6. A man named Terry surrenders to the police after he released three hostages, a mother and two children,...
MANAOAG, Pangasinan -- A man was put into jail after he injured his live-in partner during a 30-minute hostage-taking drama inside a comfort room at Barangay Pugaro this town Thursday. Suspect Alfie Barlaan, 40, single, and a resident of Zamora St., Brgy. Poblacion, Manaoag, Pangasinan was a former...
CAMP VICENTE LIM, Canlubang, Laguna -- Police killed a 62-year-old man who ran amok, killed his neighbor, and took his own family as hostages on Thursday, Feb. 17, in Barangay Resplandor, San Pascual, Batangas. Brig. Gen. Antonio Yarra, Police Regional Office 4 (PRO4A), identified the suspect as...
COREYVILLE, United States – All four people taken hostage in a more than 10-hour standoff at a Texas synagogue have been freed unharmed, police said late Saturday, and their suspected captor is dead. The siege in the small Texas town of Colleyville -- in which the suspect was apparently...
Marvel Studios’ “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” and the Korean action film “On the Line” became the top-grossing films in South Korea for the month of September. The Korean Film Council (KOFIC), which tracks box office receipts, released the list of the top movies in South...
Gen. Guillermo Lorenzo Eleazar, chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), ordered the Caloocan City Police to help in the contact-tracing efforts of the Local Government Unit (LGU) after the recent hostage-taking incident in the area turned into a super spreader event as kibitzers swarmed the...
The Department of the Interior and Government (DILG) ordered Monday, Aug. 30, to conduct an intensified contact tracing of on-lookers which flocked the scene during a recent hostage taking incident in Caloocan City as fears of massive infection of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was raised....
The death toll in a botched escape plan of inmates at the Marikina City Jail has increased to three after a jail guard succumbed to serious body injuries, the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) said Friday, Aug. 27. Major Xavier Solda, spokesperson of the Bureau of Jail Management and...
