CEBU CITY – A former professional basketball player-turned-politician has formed a foundation that will provide technical and vocational scholarship grants to qualified scholars. CEBU City Councilor Dondon Hontiveros (third from left) launches the DH25 Foundation on Monday, December 18....
CEBU CITY – The chief of the Cebu City Police Office (CCPO) assured that efforts to recover jewelry stolen from a pawnshop in the downtown area here continue. Police Col. Ireneo Dalogdog said they are working on some leads that may help them recover the items taken from Oro Sugbo Pawnshop and...
CEBU CITY – A 25-year-old man who attempted to rob a pawnshop was arrested after he was stuck at the ceiling of the establishment. Police identified the suspect as Juanito Branzuela Dilvo Jr., a native of Bayugan, Agusan del Sur living in Barangay Canduman, Mandaue City. Police said the suspect...
CEBU CITY – The suspected drug pusher who fatally shot a policeman in a botched buy-bust operation was killed in a shootout with police in a mountain barangay in Talisay City, southern Cebu, on Wednesday, December 13. Jenecy Rafols, 25, allegedly refused to surrender when police tried to serve an...
CEBU CITY – The relentless campaign against illegal drugs here has led to the confiscation of more than 51,000 kilos of shabu from October last year to November this year, the Cebu City Police Office (CCPO) reported. Since the assumption of CCPO chief Police Col. Ireneo Dalogdog in October last...
CEBU CITY – Packs of suspected shabu worth close to P7 million were recovered from two women in Barangay Mambaling here at dawn on Friday, December 8. Judith Dignos, 43, and Victoria Aida, 59, were arrested in a buy-bust operation conducted by Cebu City Police Office Mambaling Station....
CEBU CITY – A former barangay councilor was arrested in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Quiot Pardo here on Thursday morning, December 7. The suspect was identified as Brian Dwight Gaviola, 47. Leia Alcantara, spokesperson of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Central Visayas, said that...
CEBU CITY – A robbery suspect has mixed emotions after passing the Bar examinations in his second attempt. While Jigger Geverola is happy that he is one of the 3,812 examinees who passed the 2023 Bar examinations, he admitted that he couldn’t fully celebrate due to his current situation....
CEBU CITY – “Congratulations my son.” Those were the first words that Celsa Geverola, 65, said when she was able to talk to her son Jigger over the phone. Jigger was behind bars when he knew on Tuesday, December 5, that he passed the Bar examination. JIGGER Geverola who is currently detained...
CEBU CITY – Police in Central Visayas are on heightened alert following the deadly bombing at the Mindanao State University in Marawi City over the weekend. Police Brig. Gen. Anthony Aberin, chief of the Police Regional Office-Central Visayas (PRO-7), has instructed all city and...
CEBU CITY – Empty butane canisters worth P9 million were seized from a warehouse in Barangay Calamba here on November 29. The Criminal Investigation and Detection Group Anti-Fraud and Commercial Crimes Units in Camp Crame, Quezon City raided the warehouse based on a search warrant issued by...
CEBU CITY – A former political prisoner was arrested after he was tagged as the mastermind behind the robbery of a pawnshop here on Saturday, November 25. JIGGER Geverola was arrested after he was identified as the mastermind behind the robbery of a pawnshop in Cebu City on Saturday,...
