CAMP MIGUEL MALVAR, Batangas City – Police arrested a 35-year-old man wanted for the murder of a fraternity member in Barangay Santa Rita Karsada, this city, on August 23. The Batangas Police Provincial Office (BPPO) identified the suspect as Felicimo Padilla, a resident of Barangay Santa...
CAMP MIGUEL MALVAR, Batangas City – A 40-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday, August 23, for allegedly raping his daughter in this city last May. Batangas police chief Police Col. Samson Belmonte identified the suspect as “Dulix.” Dulix was arrested for qualified statutory raped based on a...
BATANGAS CITY – Police nabbed three suspected drug pushers and seized shabu worth P510,000 in a buy-bust operation on Friday, July 14, in Barangay Libjo here. Batangas police director Police Col. Samson Belmonte, in a report to Police Regional Office 4-A director Police Brig. Gen. Carlito...
BATANGAS CITY – Five vehicles, including a pickup, a car, two tricycles, and a motorcycle, were engulfed by a fire that broke out in a "sari-sari" or variety store on Friday evening, July 7, in Purok 5, Barangay Pinamucan Proper in this city. Report of the Batangas City police indicated that...
BATANGAS CITY – A 50-year-old nail technician was apprehended after yielding P340,000 worth of shabu to a police poseur-buyer during a buy-bust operation on Wednesday, May 24, in this city. POLICE conduct an inventory of the confiscated shabu weighing 50 grams from drug suspect Jennifer Lopez...
BATANGAS CITY – Two drug pushers, one of them a high-value target, were arrested after selling P88,000 worth of shabu during a buy-bust operation in Barangay Balagtas in this city at dawn on Wednesday, May 17. In his report to Calabarzon police director Police Brig. Gen. Carlito Gaces, Batangas...
BATANGAS CITY – Public schools under the Department of Education Division of City Schools here have switched to blended learning over the extreme heat. Dr. Hermogenes Panganiban, schools division superintendent, said 107 out of 108 schools have resorted to modified classes starting on Monday,...
BATANGAS CITY – Police arrested a suspected drug pusher and seized shabu worth P120,000 during a buy-bust operation in Barangay Bolbok here before dawn on Friday, March 3. Batangas police director Col. Pedro Soliba said the suspect was a street-level individual and pinpointed by the Barangay...
BATANGAS CITY – Police arrested a 38-year-old welder and seized P238,000 shabu in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Bolbok here on Thursday, Feb. 16. Batangas police director Col. Pedro Soliba said that suspect ‘’Rey’’ was apprehended after he sold 35 grams of suspected shabu to police...
BATANGAS CITY – A 48-year-old driver ran amuck and killed two barangay tanods or watchmen in Barangay Bilogo here on Sunday night, Dec. 11. Police identified the victims as Ruben Torino, 52, and Robinson Torino, 50. The victims tried to pacify the suspect, Reinaldo Barangas of Sitio...
The victims were then ran over by a Toyota Hilux pick-up truck with license plates DBF-2368 driven by Richard Perol, 33, a resident of Tanauan City, this province, from the opposite direction. They were taken to hospitals here and Tanauan City where they were declared dead on arrival by doctors....
BATANGAS CITY – A smartphone thief was gunned down after he resisted arrest and attacked responding police officers on Friday, Dec. 2, in Barangay Santa Clara here. Police identified the suspect as Geronimo Rivera, 47, and a resident of Purok 6, Barangay Santa Clara. Investigation showed that the...