BACOLOD CITY - Police operatives arrested two drug personalities who yielded 75 grams of shabu worth P510,000 during a buy-bust operation in the suspects’ rented house in Barangay Mandalagan here on Tuesday, Feb. 21. The City Drug Enforcement Unit (CDEU) identified the subject as Rowena Ponce,...
BACOLOD CITY – A total of 25 stalls at the Vendor’s Plaza were subjected to a clearing operation conducted by officials of a barangay here to ensure they were not used in any illegal drug transaction. The clearing operation came a day after the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA)-Negros...
CAMP DANGWA, Benguet – Police destroyed marijuana valued at P105 million in two barangays in Tinglayan, Kalinga over the weekend. Two large plantations were discovered on Saturday, Feb. 18, in Barangay Tulgao West and 500,000 fully grown marijuana plants valued at P100 million were uprooted....
Police have launched a manhunt against a barangay chairman who escaped an anti-drug operation in Pikit, Cotabato on Thursday, Feb. 16. Brig. Gen Jimili Macaraeg, Police Regional Office 12 director, said the suspect Sindato Karim eluded arrest after authorities stormed his house in Barangay Lagunde....
BACOLOD CITY – Four drug personalities, including a senior citizen, were arrested as authorities raided an alleged drug den at Purok Kagaykay, Barangay 2 here on Friday, Feb. 17. Capt. Joven Mogato, head of City Drug Enforcement Unit (CDEU), identified the subject as Rogelio Climaco, 64, a street...
Two Chinese and a Filipina were arrested by the police in a buy-bust operation that netted P6.8 million worth of suspected shabu, marijuana, and tablets at the Bonifacio Global City in Taguig on Feb. 13. The Regional Drug Enforcement Unit (DEU)m together with the Taguig and Pasay police, conducted...
BACOLOD CITY -- A former drug offender was arrested anew after he allegedly yielded more than one kilo of shabu worth P6.9 million during a buy-bust operation at Sitio Canday-ong, Barangay Calindagan, Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental on Tuesday, Feb. 7. The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency...
The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) has committed to extend all the necessary assistance to its personnel who would be harmed in the conduct of clearing operations and in the enforcement of traffic laws. MMDA General Manager Procopio Lipana said all the assistance is an obligation...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Monday, February 6 filed Senate Resolution No. 459 calling for a Senate inquiry into the nickel and metallic mining activities on Sibuyan Island, Romblon. Hontiveros filed the measure following reports that residents in the area continue to set up a human barricade to...
BACOLOD CITY - About 500 grams of suspected shabu worth P3.4 million were seized in a buy-bust operation in Barangay 10 here on Saturday, Feb. 4. The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA)-Negros Occidental and the police carried out the operation that resulted in the arrest of Noel Palacios,...
TUGUEGARAO CITY, Cagayan -- A 27-year old lay-out artist was arrested during a buy-bust operation along National Highway, Carig Norte on Saturday evening, Feb 4. The suspect was identified as Leslie Areola, a resident of Carig Norte, Tuguegarao City. Joint personnel of Tuguegarao Police Station and...
BACOLOD CITY -- A couple was arrested after they allegedly yielded 52 grams of shabu worth P353,600 during a buy-bust operation at Sitio Pulo, Barangay Mambulac, Silay City, Negros Occidental on Wednesday, Feb. 1. Arrested were Ma. Chin-Chin Grace Cuadra, and her live-in partner Jeffrey Fuentes,...