Opposition Senator Leila de Lima on Friday, June 3 called on former Albuera Police Chief Lt. Col. Jovie Espenido to finally speak the truth about her innocence in relation to the trumped-up illegal drug charges filed against her. De Lima made the call after Marcelo Adorco, who earlier served as...
Detained Senator Leila de Lima on Friday said she is grateful to her colleague, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto, for asking the incoming Marcos administration to free her. De Lima, a vocal critic of the Duterte administration, said she is humbled by Recto’s kind remarks during his...
CAMP OLIVAS, City of San Fernando, Pampanga -- Central Luzon cops have seized more than P81 million worth of illegal drugs during their tenacious region wide campaign from January 1 to June 1, 2022. Police Regional Office-Reg 3 regional director Brigadier General Matthew P. Baccay said that the...
Opposition Senator Leila de Lima on Friday, June 3 thanked Senator Grace Poe for openly speaking up and expressing her solidarity with her by raising awareness about her continued unjust detention. De Lima said she was “deeply touched” by Poe’s kind words for her during the latter’s...
The camp of detained Senator Leila de Lima on Thursday, June 2 welcomed the recent recantation of another witness on the drug trade charges filed against her by the government. Detained Senator Leila de Lima arrives at the Muntinlupa Hall of Justice for a hearing in April 2019 (Jonathan Hicap)...
LAGUNA – Anti-narcotics authorities seized half-kilo of suspected shabu with a street value of P3.4 million from a suspect arrested during a buy-bust operation on Wednesday (June 1) afternoon in barangay San Niño, San Pedro City in this province. The suspect was identified as Armand Endozo alias...
Vice president-elect Sara Duterte-Carpio lauded on Thursday, June 2, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) for the destruction of P14,292,230.591 billion worth of dangerous drugs, the highest ever destructed contraband in the country. Held at the Integrated Waste Management, Inc. (IWMI) in...
A POLICE crime scene investigator secures the area in Barangay Mandalagan, Bacolod City where Francis Mark Rito was killed last Tuesday. (Photo courtesy of Kirby Federez) BACOLOD CITY – A 38-year-old man under the drugs watchlist of the Police Station 3 in this city was gunned down by an...
President Duterte said he is eyeing to return to teaching after his six-year term as president ends on June 30, 2022. President Duterte (Malacañang photo) Duterte said this a month before he turned over the presidency to President-elect Ferdinand Marcos Jr. In his speech during his meeting with...
The government's aggressive drug war since July 2016 resulted in the confiscation of a total of P89.29 billion worth of illegal drugs. In its latest ‘#RealNumbers’ report, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) disclosed that. total of 11,843.41 kgs. of shabu valued at P76.55 billion...
Police arrested a man who yielded P55 million worth of shabu during a buy-bust operation in Tala, Caloocan City on Monday, May 23. Police identified the suspect as Tantawi Salic alias “Tangie”, 35, a resident of Caloocan City. The buy-bust was conducted by operatives of Caloocan Police Station...
84871 CEBU CITY – Illegal drugs worth P12.8 million were seized in simultaneous, 24-hour police operations in Central Visayas. The one-day police operation dubbed “Synchronized Enhanced Managing Police Operation” (SEMPO) also resulted into the arrest of the 604 individuals, the Police...
