President Marcos assured justice for the families of the missing cockfight enthusiasts, or sabungeros, promising that perpetrators will face the full extent of the law regardless of their positions in society. During his fourth State of the Nation Address (SONA) at the Batasang Pambansa on Monday,...
Former president Rodrigo Duterte finds it “preposterous” that he is being linked to the case of the missing cockfight enthusiasts as it was being alleged that some of the policemen involved in the case were linked to his administration’s brutal war on drugs campaign. This was shared by Vice...
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) finally used its remotely operated vehicle (ROV) to hasten the search for the remains of missing cockfighting enthusiasts (sabungeros) in Taal Lake, Batangas on Tuesday, July 15. The submersible drone arrived at the diving site in Brgy. Balakilong, Laurel, Batangas...
The key whistleblower in the case of the missing cockfighting enthusiasts (sabungeros), along with the families of the victims, formally filed a complaint against 12 police officers allegedly involved in the abduction and killing of the sabungeros before the National Police Commission (Napolcom)....
The suspicious sacks retrieved from the bottom of Taal Lake where Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) divers were searching for the remains of 34 missing cockfight enthusiasts (sabungeros) were confirmed to have contained a mix of human and animal remains. No less than Philippine National Police (PNP)...
A sack filled with "burned objects and stones" to make it sink got torn while Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) divers were retrieving it from the Taal Lake in Batangas during a diving operation to search for the remains of the 34 missing cockfighting enthusiasts (sabungeros) on Saturday afternoon,...
(SECOND UPDATE) The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) will utilize specialized underwater and aerial technologies to intensify its search for the remains of the 34 missing cockfighting enthusiasts (sabungeros) believed to have been dumped in Taal Lake, Batangas, as divers found two more suspicious...
Technical divers from the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) found two suspicious sacks in Taal Lake, Batangas during the conclusion of the second day of search and retrieval operations for the remains of the 34 missing cockfighters (sabungeros) on Friday afternoon, July 11, as a ranking official denied...
There will be no cover-up in the case of the missing sabungeros, Malacañang said amid the ongoing investigation of the four-year-old case. After President Marcos ordered the deeper and extensive investigation on the case of at least 34 cockfighting enthusiasts, who went missing four years ago,...
LAUREL, Batangas – At least 50 Philippine Coast Guard divers have been deployed to scour Taal Lake for the remains of the missing “sabungeros” or cockfight enthusiasts. Three dive teams were deployed on Friday morning in separate dive points 52 to 72 feet away from the shoreline in Barangay...
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) resumed on Friday morning, July 11, its search and retrieval operations at Taal Lake in Batangas in hopes of finding the remains of the 34 missing cockfighters (sabungeros). Three dive teams composed of 13 members were deployed to separate dive points approximately...
The initial search and retrieval operation for the remains of 34 missing cockfighters (sabungeros) at Taal Lake in Batangas made its first major breakthrough on Thursday, July 10, when authorities discovered a sack filled with blackened remains believed to be bones. Police Brig. Gen. Jack Wanky,...
