CEBU CITY -- From former drug users to City Hall workers. The city government of Lapu-Lapu has hired two former drug personalities who surrendered and were eventually among those in the first batch who completed their community-based drug rehabilitation program (CBDRP). Lapu-Lapu Mayor Junard...
Government anti-narcotics operatives seized almost P88 million worth of ecstasy, cocaine and other illegal drugs in a raid in Cubao, Quezon City on Wednesday, Aug. 10. Police Gen. Rodolfo Azurin, chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), said the operation led to the arrest of Riza Bilbao, 25;...
LUCENA CITY, Quezon -- A leader of a drug group was arrested, with the operatives seizing some P108,000 worth of shabu during a buy-bust operation on Wednesday, August 10, at Purok Matahimik Isla, Barangay Cotta in this city. The police identified the suspect as Alfredo Querijero alias Jetox, 58, a...
BAGUIO CITY – The Baguio City Police Office (BCPO) seized P1.7-million worth of illegal drugs and arrested 506 wanted persons from January to June this year. LONOGAN (FB) Police Col. Glenn Lonogan, city police chief, said they conducted 119 anti-drug operations in which 114 drug...
CAMP OLIVAS, City of San Fernando, Pampanga -- At least seven suspected drug peddlers were arrested by authorities during separate anti-illegal drug bust operations in Bataan and Pampanga on Wednesday, August 3. Photo via Liezle Inigo Police Regional Office 3 Director Brigadier General Matthew P....
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – Police operatives arrested a target drug pusher from whom 600 grams of shabu worth P4 million were found during a buy-bust operation in Masterson Avenue, Barangay Lumbia, this city on Thursday afternoon, August 4. In a report from the Cagayan de Oro City Police Office...
POZORRUBIO, Pangasinan – Three drug suspects, including a criminology student, were arrested during a buy-bust operation in Brgy. Banding in this town on Wednesday, August 3. The Pozorrubio Police Station, backed by personnel of Regional Intelligence Division (RID) and Police Regional Police...
PAMPANGA – Police cornered two notorious drug pushers who yielded 130 grams of shabu worth P884,000 during a buy-bust operation in Brgy. Dau, Mabalacat City on Wednesday afternoon, August 3. In his report to Pampanga Provincial Police Office acting director Colonel Alvin Ruby Consolacion,...
BACOLOD CITY -- A man who was previously arrested in a buy-bust operation here in 2012 was found buried under a tower at Purok Katilingban, Barangay Vista Alegre here on Sunday, July 31. Police cordon the area in Barangay Vista Alegre, Bacolod City, where a decomposing of a man was found buried...
Police confiscated some P884,000 worth of shabu and arrested 14 persons in separate anti-drugs operations in Bulacan on Friday and Saturday. Col. Charlie A. Cabradilla, acting Bulacan police director, identified the first arrested drug suspect as Norhata Hassan of Silang Cavite. Hassan was nabbed...
Surigao del Norte 2nd district Rep. Robert Ace Barbers has hailed the passage of the Vape Law, which he said would help prevent the abuse of illegal substances via vaping. (Donn Gabriel Baleva/ Unsplash) “Vaping is a fast growing industry and vape products have been prevalent in the country for...
MABALACAT CITY, PAMPANGA -- At least 10 drug personalities were arrested in three separate buy-bust operations launched by agents of Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Pampanga and PDEA Aurora on Friday afternoon (July 29). Photo from PDEA Pampanga Some P158,700 worth of shabu were seized...
