Police arrested a member of a gun-for-hire group wanted for murder in Batangas in Kabacan, North Cotabato. Col. Pedro Soliba, Batangas police chief, in a report to Brig. Gen. Jose Melencio Nartatez, Police Regional Office 4-A director, identified the suspect as Rafael Bancoro, 50, a native of San...
Agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in Mindanao have arrested two suspected drug pushers in a buy-bust in Cotabato City on Sunday, Feb. 5. Nabbed were Allan Tito Lazaga, alias “Duduy”; and, Raul Deligencia Estrella, alias “Raul.” They were arrested in Barangay Pobliacion...
ILIGAN CITY – A female member of the Milisyang Bayan under the Guerilla Front Musa, Far South Mindanao Region surrendered to the 5th Special Forces Battalion in Sitio Tabudtod, Barangay New Dumangas, T’boli, South Cotabato on Thursday, Feb. 2. A GUN and a grenade were among the items...
#MINDANAO John Tria I traveled the length of the Davao Cotabato highway last week. I caught sight of the famous gorgeous sunset over the Moro Gulf. Travelling the five-hour stretch between Davao and Cotabato cities, at daytime and nigh time, I passed many parts of a four-lane, well-lit highway,...
COTABATO CITY (PNA) – Two persons died while five others were injured when around 20 gunmen attacked a Moro community on the outskirts of this city before dawn on Wednesday, Jan. 18. AERIAL view of Cotabato CIty. (Wikipedia) Major Sainodin Benasing, city police Station 3 commander, said the 3...
Government anti-narcotics operatives destroyed P4.2 million worth of fully-grown marijuana plants in Tampakan, South Cotabato, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) said on Tuesday, Jan. 17. The PDEA South Cotabato Provincial Office, the military and the local police immediately proceeded...
COTABATO CITY (PNA) –The Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) has welcomed a Supreme Court (SC) decision that dismissed a petition questioning the result of the 2019 plebiscite that included Cotabato City into the region. "We are elated to receive the decision of the SC...
PALENCIA COTABATO CITY (PNA) – The mayor of Polomolok town, South Cotabato province has offered a P500,000 bounty for anyone who can provide information that will lead to the arrest of gunmen behind the separate killings of four of the town’s civil security unit (CSU) personnel. Mayor Bernie...
MATALAM, North Cotabato (PNA) – A plantation worker was killed while three of his companions were critically injured in an accidental grenade explosion in remote Barangay Kidama here, police said Friday, Dec. 30. Major Arniel Melocotones, town police chief, identified the fatality in the Thursday...
COTABATO CITY (PNA) – An official of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) was killed while two others were unscathed in a gun attack in this city, a police official said Wednesday, Dec. 21. Major Amil Andungan Jr., Cotabato City Police Office Station 2 chief, identified the...
COTABATO CITY (PNA) – Police are hunting motorcycle riding-in-tandem gunmen who shot and killed an off-duty Marine here on Sunday, Dec. 18. “There are several angles that investigators are looking into the daring attack against Marine Staff Sgt. Rodolfo Magno Jr., a member of Philippine Marine...
ILIGAN CITY -- At least forty-four officers and members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters laid down their arms and returned to the folds of the law in Cotabato on Dec. 9, 2022. Joint Task Force Central Commander Maj. Gen. Roy Galido said the former violent extremists submitted themselves...
