BAGUIO CITY – A dog from the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Cordillera Administrative Region K-9 Unit detected illegal drugs in an abandoned package in a courier service in La Trinidad, Benguet on Tuesday, June 20. The courier service contacted the PDEA after a parcel was left unclaimed...
BACOLOD CITY – A total of 1920.52 grams of illegal drugs worth P13,059,536 were seized here from April 18 to June 18. The illegal drugs were confiscated during the 100 anti-illegal drug operations conducted by the police under Police Col. Noel Aliño, acting director of Bacolod City Police Office...
BACOLOD CITY – Illegal drugs worth P87,227,845.13 were confiscated in Western Visayas from Jan. 1 to May 31. NEGROS Occidental Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson (right) talks to PDEA-Western Visayas acting Director Melvin Estoque (left) during the recent Regional Peace and Order Council (RPOC) meeting...
A police officer has been jailed for up to 40 years for the kidnapping and killing of a South Korean businessman during former President Rodrigo Duterte's drug war, court documents seen by AFP on Thursday, June 9, show. Jee Ick-joo was abducted from his home in Angeles City in October 2016 by a...
*By Jonathan Hicap and Patrick Garcia * A Makati court has acquitted Rolan “Kerwin” Espinosa and co-accused Marcelo Adorco of the crime of illegal trafficking and trading of shabu after the prosecution failed to present sufficient evidence. “Wherefore, in view of the foregoing, the Demurrer...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Thursday, June 8 expressed her frustration over the denial of former Senator Leila de Lima’s petition for bail. “I am deeply frustrated over the prolonged detention of former Sen. Leila De Lima. She deserves a speedy trial as enshrined in our Constitution,”...
A total of P55,338,400 worth of suspected methamphetamine hydrochloride or "shabu" was seized by authorities from an arriving Liberian passenger at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) on Monday night, June 5, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) said. *(Photo courtesy...
Former president Rodrigo Duterte is not interested to serve as an anti-drug czar under the administration of President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. Former president Rodrigo Duterte (Joey Dalumpines/Presidential Photo) “Mukha hindi na rin tama (It doesn’t seem right anymore),” Duterte...
The Senate Committee on Public Order and Dangerous Drugs on Tuesday, May 30, lifted the contempt order against six policemen who were linked to the P6.7-billion worth of shabu seized during an anti-drug operations in Manila last year. It was Sen. Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada who made the motion, and was...
Senator Robinhood C. Padilla dared rogue elements of the Philippine National Police (PNP) to show their "bayag" (balls) as a sign of their respect to the Constitution. Sen. Robinhood "Robin" Padilla at the Senate Committee on Public Order and Dangerous Drugs hearing on the seized P6.7-billion shabu...
The Senate Committee on Public Order and Dangerous Drugs has cited in contempt seven (7) anti-drug operatives believed to be part of a grand “cover-up” in the P6.7-billion shabu that was seized in Manila on October, 2022. Those cited in contempt are Police Master Sgt. Rodolfo Mayo Jr. and his...
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Northern Mindanao (Region 10) on Monday, May 22, destroyed illegal drugs and expired medicines valued at over P18 million through thermal destruction in a cremation facility in this city. PHILIPPINE Drug Enforcement Agency-Region 10...