ILOILO CITY – A gun was seized from a Grade 10 student in Barotac Nuevo town in Iloilo province. The Iloilo Police Provincial Office (IPPO) said that authorities retrieved a .38 caliber revolver with six bullets from a 15-year-old boy inside the high school on Tuesday, June 30. A teacher was...
BURGOS, Isabela – Police arrested a 42-year-old man on Saturday for allegedly pointing a gun at a 17-year-old girl who refused to lend him P100 in this town. The Isabela Police Provincial Office (PPO) said the suspect Ico was drunk and became enraged when she refused his request. He drew a...
Malacañang has signaled openness to stricter firearms regulations in the wake of recent school violence incidents, but stopped short of endorsing a nationwide ban on cellphone use in schools. Presidential Communications Office (PCO) Undersecretary Claire Castro said this after Department of the...
So damaging would be the contents of Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) box to impeachment trial respondent Vice President Sara Duterte’s case that it ought to be called an entire "armory". This was part of House prosecution panel Lanao del Sur 1st district Rep. Zia Alonto Adiong 's witty word...
A routine bag inspection by police officers at the Aparri School of Arts and Trade (ASAT) in Aparri, Cagayan on Friday, June 26, led to the confiscation of a homemade caliber .38 firearm and a kitchen knife from two male students who allegedly admitted they had brought the weapons to school because...
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – The Misamis Occidental Police Provincial Office (MOCPPO) relieved a police officer on Wednesday, pending an investigation after footage of him pointing a gun at a civilian circulated online. In a statement, Police Col. Reynaldo Maclang, MOCPPO chief, said the police officer,...
The Philippine National Police (PNP) urged parents and guardians to be active in monitoring the social media and gadget use of their children following the involvement of two minors, aged 14 and 15, in the gun attack on a Tacloban City high school. PNP chief Gen. Jose Melencio C. Nartatez, Jr. said...
Police investigators have so far recovered at least 40 spent bullet casings at the gun attack site inside the San Jose National High School in Tacloban City that indicates the intention of the two students, aged 14 and 15, to go on a shooting rampage. Col. Allen Rae Co, spokesperson of the...
The Philippine National Police (PNP) reminded gun owners to follow and respect the rules and regulations on firearms ownership amid renewed public attention on firearm disclosures involving public officials. PNP chief Gen. Jose Melencio C. Nartatez, Jr. said the gun ownership rules are a privilege...
A robbery suspect was injured after falling from the roof of an old warehouse following a nearly one-hour chase with police officers he had threatened with a fake gun in Barangay Malanday, Valenzuela City, on Sunday, June 14. The suspect, identified only as alias “Rolly,” was pursued after...
A National Police Commission (Napolcom) officer was arrested in Quezon City after allegedly brandishing a firearm and threatening a Transport Network Vehicle Service (TNVS) driver following a minor road crash along EDSA in Mandaluyong City. The incident began with a vehicular collision between the...
A 62-year-old passenger bound for Tagbilaran was arrested Tuesday afternoon, May 26, after airport authorities discovered an unlicensed .45-caliber Colt pistol in his luggage at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA). The firearm, loaded with a magazine containing six live rounds, was...
