The attempt to eliminate all the trails that would disclose their identity did not become that successful for the attackers of Aparri, Cagfayan Vice Mayor Rommel Alameda after police investigators were able to save some numbers in the chassis and engine of the getaway vehicle that was found burned...
The Vice Mayors’ League of the Philippines (VMLP)-Cagayan chapter strongly condemned the ambush of Aparri, Cagayan Vice Mayor Rommel Alameda and four others in Nueva Vizcaya on Sunday, Feb. 19. “We are shocked and saddened that one of our officers has been added to the number of fallen victims...
The vice mayor of Aparri, Cagayan and five others were killed in an ambush in Sitio Kinacao, Barangay Baretbet, Bagabag, Nueva Vizcaya on Sunday morning, Feb. 19. AN ambush victim in Bagabag, Nueva Vizcaya is taken to a hospital. (Photo via Liezle Basa-Inigo) Lt. Col. Saturnino Soriano, regional...
APARRI, Cagayan – A former government employee was arrested in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Maura here on Wednesday morning, Feb. 15. The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Region 2 (Cagayan Valley) identified the suspect as Bernardo Alicias Jr., alias "Berns," 37. Alicias was...
APARRI, Cagayan – Authorities arrested three high-value targets and seized suspected shabu worth P1.4 million during the implementation of a search warrant here on Thursday, Dec. 29. Suspects were identified as Rolando Uri, 52; Mila Malana, 50, and Michael Uri, 37, store owner. Seized from...
Anti-narcotics authorities arrested three high value targets (HVT) on Thursday, Dec. 29, after they allegedly yielded P1.4 million worth of shabu and marijuana valued at P10,000 in a search warrant operation in Cagayan province. PDEA logo The operation conducted by the Philippine Drug Enforcement...
APARRI, Cagayan – The body of a passenger missing after their boat sank on the Cagayan River in Barangay Macanaya here on Friday was found on Sunday, Nov. 13. The victim was identified as Erold Leste. Leste was found by a fisherman who probed the Cagayan River. Seven of his companions were...
APARRI, Cagayan -- Seven passengers were rescued from a boat that sank on the Cagayan River in Barangay Macanaya here on Friday, Nov. 11. A report from Col. Julio Gorospe Jr., officer-in-charge, Cagayan Police Provincial Office, identified the rescued as Rey Taguba, Ljay Ocampo, Ebo Persona, Jungie...
APARRI, Cagayan – The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA)-Batanes and the local police dismantled a drug den following the arrest of a 26-year-old artist and five students in a buy bust-operation on Jose Abad Santos St., Barangay San Antonio here Wednesday, August 10. Suspects were...
CAGAYAN -- Residents of Barangay Dodan in the coastal town of Aparri in this province rescued a pod of dolphins trapped in a fishing net owned by fisherman in the area around 10:00 in the morning on Wednesday, July 27. Photo courtesy of BFAR The incident was reported by Lieutenant Jun-Jun Torio,...
THE Unnagans at their house the morning after the earthquake. APARRI, Cagayan – A family from this town got out just in time and avoided being buried alive at the height of a magnitude-6.1 earthquake that rocked this province Friday, July 1. Gemma Unnagan, 42, of Barangay San Antonio here,...
Some 1000 fisher folk from 12 barangays in Aparri, Cagayan will march from the Catholic Church arch to Aparri municipal arch on Friday, April 22, to protest the black sand operations in the town which they say is happening in the guise of river dredging. Residents here reported the return of mining...
