CAMP RAFAEL C. RODRIGUEZ, Butuan City – The Police Regional Office-13 ordered all mobile force commanders, provincial and city directors, and municipal chiefs of police in the Caraga region on Thursday, June 22, to step up their campaign against loose firearms ahead of the 2023 Barangay and SK...
MABINI, Batangas – The mayor of this town and his two siblings were arrested after unlicensed firearms were seized from them during a raid by the Philippine National Police-Criminal Investigation and Detection Group-National Capital Region in their houses here on Saturday, June 17. The raids...
CAMP OLIVAS, City of San Fernando, Pampanga – A barangay kagawad who is allegedly a member of a big criminal group operating in Bulacan was arrested for illegal possession of firearms on Thursday, June 15. The suspect, identified as Edgardo Cruz, 50, barangay kagawad of Barangay Umpucan in...
CAMP RAFAEL C. RODRIGUEZ, Butuan City – The Police Regional Office-13 (PRO-13) has seized 578 loose firearms and 78 explosives from Jan. 1 to the present in line with the intensified crackdown against loose firearms and security measures for the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections in the...
More than 200 units of brand new pistols and heavy machine guns were recently acquired by the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) to equip its personnel with enough firearms as part of its modernization efforts, it was revealed on Monday, May 29. *(Photo courtesy of PCG) * Adm. Artemio Abu, PCG...
CAMP DANGWA, Benguet – Police recovered four unregistered firearms in the Cordillera region on Saturday, May 20. Reports submitted to Police Regional Office-Cordillera Director Police Brig. Gen. David Peredo Jr. said two loose firearms were surrendered to the Abra Provincial Police Office,...
SARIAYA, Quezon – A 44-year-old man who was the subject of a search warrant for violation of the Comprehensive Firearms and Ammunition Act died in a shootout with police early Saturday morning, May 6, in Barangay Concepcion Banahaw in this town. Sariaya police identified the fatality as...
ILIGAN CITY – Authorities seized high-powered firearms during a checkpoint at Grebona Patrol Base on the Bukidnon-Alamada-Libungan Highway in Libungan, North Cotabato on Thursday morning, May 4. The 34th Infantry Battalion and Libungan police flagged down a silver Toyota Vios with license plates ...
ILIGAN CITY – Mayor Nursiya Ismael of Lantawan, Basilan has turned over 34 loose firearms surrendered by constituents to the military in a ceremony at the 19th Special Forces Company headquarters in Barangay Tabuk, Isabela City, Basilan. Brig. Gen. Domingo Gobway, Joint Task Force Basilan...
CAMP RAFAEL C. RODRIGUEZ, Butuan City – Eleven wanted persons were arrested and loose firearms were seized in the Caraga region over the weekend, the Police Regional Office 13 reported on Monday, March 20. Suspects were apprehended on Saturday, March 18, during the implementation of search...
A former New People’s Army (NPA) member turned over firearms and bomb-making materials on Thursday, March 16, in Camp Col. Jose P. Razon in Barangay Bilaran, Nasugbu, Batangas. Police said that Edilberto Millejor Sr., alias ‘’Ka Nonoy,’’ surrendered a homemade shotgun, four 12-gauge...
Authorities were able to recover several impressive--and dangerous-looking--long firearms from the suspects linked to the broad-daylight assassination of Negros Oriental Governor Roel Degamo. House Speaker Martin Romualdez (2nd from right) inspect the recovered high-powered firearms and equipment...
