COTABATO CITY – Acting on a tip, police recovered several unattended boxes of imported cigarettes, estimated to be worth P12.8 million, on the coastline of Malabang, Lanao del Sur on Thursday. Police Col. Caezar Cabuhat, Lanao del Sur police provincial director, said in a statement on Friday that...
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – Officials from Lanao del Sur and the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) are calling for immediate justice for the family recently killed in Cagayan province. On Tuesday, Gov. Mamintal Adiong Jr. called for a resolution for the death of Salic Amerol,...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Government troops recovered 295 grenades from an arms cache believed to be hidden by remnants of the Dawlah Islamiyah-Maute Group (DI-MG) in the hinterlands of Lanao del Sur, the military said Thursday. Major Gen. Yegor Rey Barroquillo Jr., 1st Infantry Division commander, said...
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),...
COTABATO CITY – Alert police officers arrested one of their own in Lanao del Sur for transporting over P1.9-million worth of smuggled cigarettes before dawn Thursday. Police Lt. Col. Jopy Ventura, spokesperson for the Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region (PRO-BAR), identified the...
COTABATO CITY – Police in Lanao del Sur have deployed plainclothes and uniformed personnel near the lone public tertiary school in Balabagan town following the Aug. 4 killing of a school teacher. In a radio interview on Monday, Lanao del Sur police director police Col. Caezar Cabuhat said he...
A teachers’ group on Monday, August 11, called on the government to make “serious investments” in school security following a deadly shooting incident that claimed the life of a teacher in Balabagan, Lanao del Sur. The Teachers’ Dignity Coalition (TDC), in a statement, condemned the...
ILIGAN CITY – Three members of the lawless Dawlah Islamiyah-Maute Group (DI-MG) were killed and three others were captured in a clash with government troops in Lanao del Sur, the military said Sunday. Brig. Gen. Billy dela Rosa, 103rd Infantry Brigade commander, said the gunbattle erupted while...
COTABATO CITY – A 24-year-old teacher in Lanao del Sur was shot dead by an unidentified gunman on Monday morning, police reported. In his report to the Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region (PRO-BAR), Lanao del Sur Police Provincial Director Police Col. Caezar Cabuhat identified...
Government anti-narcotics agents confiscated on Friday, May 23, around P3.4 million worth of shabu following the arrest of a high-value target (HVT) drug suspect during a buy-bust operation in Taraka, Lanao del Sur, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) said. PDEA Director Gil Cesario P....
COTABATO CITY – A municipal council candidate and his aide were gunned down Monday morning while walking to cast their votes in Bayang, Lanao del Sur, police confirmed. Afganie Balt Taha, a town council aspirant, and supporter Walid Balt Taha – a relative and brother of a barangay official –...
ILIGAN CITY – Soldiers neutralized a notorious leader of the Dawlah Islamiyah-Maute Group (DI-MG) in a 15-minute encounter on May 9 in Barangay Tambo, Bacolod-Kalawi, Lanao del Sur. Soldiers identified the fatality as Nasser Daud, alias Mas’od and Mahater. Daud was No. 1 in the government’s...
