BAGUIO CITY – Police and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Cordillera arrested a suspected drug pusher in a buy-bust operation on Thursday, Oct. 13, in Barangay Quirino Hill, this city. PDEA-Cordillera Director Gil Castro identified the suspect as Daniel Tan Cole. Cole, a high-value...
BACOLOD CITY – Police seized 1.2 kilos of suspected shabu valued at P8.5 million for the MassKara Festival from two drug personalities in a buy-bust operation in Barangay 1 here on Thursday, Oct. 13. TWO suspected drug personalities were arrested while 1.2 kilos of suspected shabu valued at...
CEBU CITY — Old habits die hard for this known robber. Jerlan Cañete Sabanal, a resident of Barangay Ermita here where he is known as “Boy Langaw,” was arrested again less than a month after he was released from jail. Sabanal was nabbed at dawn on Tuesday, Oct. 11, after police caught him...
LEGAZPI CITY, Albay – Suspected robbers shot and killed a 53-year-old high school principal in her house in Barangay Napo, Polangui, Albay before dawn on Wednesday, Oct. 12. CABALTERA (From Polangui Mayor Adrian Salceda FB) Lt. Col. Maria Luisa Calubaquib, Police Regional Office (PRO)-5...
CAMP DANGWA, Benguet -- Twenty-nine wanted persons were arrested in a week-long intensified manhunt operation conducted by the Police Regional Office-Cordillera from Oct. 2 to 8. The Regional Investigation and Detective Management Division (RIDMD) said the Baguio City Police Office nabbed 12 wanted...
An off-duty policeman recently helped a man who was a victim of a fake job offer in Candaba, Pampanga. JERRY Boy Pise weeps sharing his story. (FB screenshot) Jerry Boy Pise was offered to work by someone in a duck farm and brought him to a tricycle terminal in Bahay Pare. The person told Pise to...
TACLOBAN CITY – A 12-year-old girl who went missing on National Teachers’ Day, Wednesday, Oct. 5, was found dead on Sunday, Oct. 9, in Barangay San Antonio, Basey, Samar. Her body was decomposing when it was found at 4 p.m. by a “tuba” (coconut wine) gatherer. Police identified the cadaver...
BACOLOD CITY – The Police Regional Office (PRO)-Western Visayas reported that licenses for a total of 7,901 assorted firearms here and in Negros Occidental were not renewed. At least 302 gunholders renew their firearm licenses during the two-day License To Own and Possess Firearm (LTOPF)...
ILOILO CITY – Two policemen helped a woman deliver her baby at her home in Sibunag, Guimaras on Friday, Oct. 7. Sibunag police chief Lt. Val Cambel and Corporal Joe Ben Moleño were on patrol when a woman asked them to help her niece in labor. They went to their house but the mother said...
CANDELARIA, Quezon – A Grade 8 student and an 18-year-old vulcanizing shop employee were gunned down by two men in Barangay Poblacion here on Saturday, Oct. 8. Candelaria police chief Lt. Col. Dennis de Leon identified the victims as Jimber Villarin Perez and Alexander Taliente Perez,...
CAMP Camp Tirso H. Gador, Tuguegarao City, Cagayan – Four more members of Anakpawis in this province voluntarily surrendered to the police on Friday, Oct. 7. Alias “Junie,”50, and “Jenna,” 66, yielded in Alcala. Two members surrendered in Amulung and Santa Teresita – alias “Zaldy,”...
MIDSAYAP, North Cotabato (PNA) – Two women were killed while three other women and three men were wounded in four separate attacks in Pikit and M’lang, North Cotabato in the past two days, police said on Saturday, Oct. 8. In M’lang, Lt. Col. Realan Mamon, town police chief, said Althea...