BUTUAN CITY – Police here inaugurated its new forensics unit building on Friday, August 11. Police Regional Office-13 Director Police Brig. Gen. Kirby John B. Kraft led the inauguration of the 30-square-meter building adjacent to the Regional Forensics Unit-13 along with PNP Forensics Group chief...
BUTUAN CITY – A woman was arrested for allegedly smuggling drugs into the Butuan City Jail on Thursday, August 3, police reported Saturday, August 5. Initial investigation disclosed that the suspect was visiting a Person Deprived of Liberty (PDL) but yielded three sachets of suspected shabu with...
BUTUAN CITY – President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. led the distribution of agricultural support to farmers’ groups and associations in Agusan del Norte and this city at the Provincial Capitol Covered Court here on Wednesday, July 12. Along with officials of the Department of Agriculture, the Chief...
CAMP RAFAEL C. RODRIGUEZ, Butuan City – A suspected drug pusher was arrested and shabu valued at P102,000 was seized in a buy-bust operation on Saturday, July 8, in Barangay Ampayon, this city. The 41-year-old suspect whose name was temporarily withheld pending the arrest of his other contacts was...
BUTUAN CITY – A P39.2-million state-of-the-art central police station will soon rise in this city after the ceremonial groundbreaking headed by Interior and Local Government Secretary Benhur Abalos Jr. on Saturday, July 2. INTERIOR and Local Government Secretary Benhur C. Abalos Jr. leads the...
BUTUAN CITY – Police seized shabu worth P248,880 from nine suspected drug pushers in the Caraga region during the conduct of simultaneous anti-illegal drug operations on Wednesday, June 28. “All the suspects will be charged with violation of RA 9165 or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of...
BUTUAN CITY – The Department of Interior and Local Government is all set for the launching of the “Buhay Ingatan, Droga’y Ayawan” program here on Saturday, July 1. ABALOS (DILG FB) The event will be led by DILG Secretary Benhur Abalos along with Agusan del Norte Gov. Maria Angelica Rosedell...
BUTUAN CITY – The Army 29th Infantry (Matatag) Battalion (IB) and the City Task Force to End Local Armed Conflict (CTF-ELCAC) facilitated the burial of two slain New People’s Army (NPA) rebels in Sitio Dugyaman, Barangay Anticala, this city, on Wednesday, June 21. Troops extricated the cadavers...
BUTUAN CITY – Three New People’s Army (NPA) rebels were killed while several others were believed wounded in an encounter in the mountainous area of Mount Apo-Apo Dugyaman, Barangay Anticala, here, on Friday, June 16. The slain communist guerrillas were two amazons and one male. The Army 29th...
CAMP RAFAEL C. RODRIGUEZ, Butuan City – An honest policewoman found a wallet and returned it to a worried, teary-eyed driver here on Wednesday, June 7. POLICE Staff Sgt. Esyldra Alfeche Compracion (right) of the Police Regional Office-13 (PRO-13) hands over the wallet of a driver (center) she...
CAMP RAFAEL C. RODRIGUEZ, Butuan City – The Police Regional Office-13 will deploy 340 police officers to secure the Balangay Festival 2023 in Butuan City. The Butuan City Police Office (BCPO) and graduates of the Basic Internal Security Operations Course (BISOC) shall ensure area and route...
BUTUAN CITY – The military seized high-powered firearms, bullets, and medical paraphernalia following an encounter with the New People’s Army (NPA) in Sitio Tubuhon, Barangay Bugsukan, this city, on Wednesday, May 3. Also captured by the 29th Infantry (Matatag) Battalion was a makeshift camp of...