The Philippine National Police (PNP) has intensified the monitoring and coordination with foreign counterparts in relation to the reports of a group of online groomers allegedly recruiting children to engage in violent acts. PNP chief Gen. Jose Melencio C. Nartatez, Jr., chief of the Philippine...
The legal team of Vice President Sara Duterte said the court has heard oral arguments on its motion to quash the informations filed against her in connection with the National Bureau of Investigation 's (NBI) grave threats cases, arguing that the court lacks jurisdiction while she remains in...
The Quezon City Regional Trial Court (RTC) on Tuesday, Aug. 25, heard oral arguments on Vice President Sara Duterte’s bid to dismiss the grave threats charges filed against her. The charges stem from remarks Duterte made during a November 2024 online briefing, where she allegedly threatened...
BACOLOD CITY - Police are investigating an online threat against another upland public high school, and this time its teacher-in-charge in Barangay Magballo, Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental. Police Lt. Nolly Gudaca, deputy chief of Kabankalan City Police Station, said an unidentified person...
An online threat directed at a national high school here that was posted after the fatal school shooting incident at the Ateneo de Zamboanga University (ADZU) was referred to cybercrime authorities, according to a statement posted by the school on Sunday, August 23. The Culianan National High...
SAN ANTONIO, Zambales — The Zambales Police Provincial Office (ZPPO) has heightened security in schools here following a social media post about an alleged plan to launch an attack in schools in the municipality on Monday, August 24. ZPPO Director COL Benjamin Ariola said additional police...
CEBU CITY – Authorities took custody of two students in separate cases involving school security in Cebu. In Pinamungajan, a 14‑year‑old student was found carrying a firearm while attending classes on Thursday afternoon, Aug. 20. Police said a class adviser discovered an unloaded .357 Smith &...
CEBU CITY — Think before you joke. A 20-year-old culinary student learned this the hard way after he was arrested for allegedly threatening to carry out a gun attack inside a university in Barangay Kamagayan. The suspect, identified only as Rence, claimed he was joking when he commented on a...
Vice President Sara Duterte’s legal team has asked a Quezon City court to defer the issuance of an arrest warrant while it considers her motion to quash the three grave threats cases filed against her, saying the court must first resolve the defense’s jurisdictional challenge. Lawyer Paul...
"Like brother, like sister." This was Bicol Saro Party-list Rep. Terry Ridon 's jab to impeachment trial respondent Vice President Sara Duterte after she reportedly appeared at her brother Davao City 1st district Rep. Paolo Duterte 's court proceeding on a grave threats case. Ridon, in a...
For the legal camp of Vice President Sara Duterte, a sitting Vice President cannot be criminally prosecuted while in office, as it urged the court to hear oral arguments on her motion to quash the grave threats cases filed against her. In a virtual press briefing on Friday, Aug. 14, Atty. Paul...
The legal team of Vice President Sara Duterte is seeking oral arguments on her motion to quash the grave threats cases filed against her before the Quezon City Regional Trial Court. In a press statement on Friday, August 14, Duterte’s counsel, Atty. Paul Lawrence Lim, said the defense is filing a...