BACOLOD CITY -- A man who was previously arrested in a buy-bust operation here in 2012 was found buried under a tower at Purok Katilingban, Barangay Vista Alegre here on Sunday, July 31. Police cordon the area in Barangay Vista Alegre, Bacolod City, where a decomposing of a man was found buried...
Police confiscated some P884,000 worth of shabu and arrested 14 persons in separate anti-drugs operations in Bulacan on Friday and Saturday. Col. Charlie A. Cabradilla, acting Bulacan police director, identified the first arrested drug suspect as Norhata Hassan of Silang Cavite. Hassan was nabbed...
Surigao del Norte 2nd district Rep. Robert Ace Barbers has hailed the passage of the Vape Law, which he said would help prevent the abuse of illegal substances via vaping. (Donn Gabriel Baleva/ Unsplash) “Vaping is a fast growing industry and vape products have been prevalent in the country for...
MABALACAT CITY, PAMPANGA -- At least 10 drug personalities were arrested in three separate buy-bust operations launched by agents of Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Pampanga and PDEA Aurora on Friday afternoon (July 29). Photo from PDEA Pampanga Some P158,700 worth of shabu were seized...
Police seized more than P1.1 million worth of shabu and arrested 17 drug personalities in a series of anti-drugs operations in the province of Bulacan on Friday, July 29. Col. Charlie A. Cabradilla, acting Bulacan police director, said a buy-bust operation conducted by operatives of Marilao Police...
Pasig City Mayor Vico Sotto and lone Congressman Roman Romulo urged local tricycle operators and drivers association (TODA) groups to help the local government raise awareness on key issues including illegal drugs, health, and safe resumption of face-to-face classes. Sotto and Romulo delivered...
BACOLOD CITY – A male teenager was arrested after police found 57 grams of shabu worth P387,600 from him during a buy-bust operation at Purok Sigay, Barangay 2 here on Saturday, July 24. The 57 grams of suspected shabu worth P387,600 seized from a 16-year-old boy in a buy-bust operation in...
CAMP OLIVAS, City of San Fernando, Pampanga -- A barangay councilor in Tarlac City and listed as top priority regional high value individual died during an armed encounter with authorities on Saturday morning, July 23, in Tarlac. Photo from Tarlac PNP Frank Martin Bonus of Brgy. San Sebastian,...
CAMP OLIVAS, City of San Fernando, Pampanga – Police arrested five suspected drug peddlers and seized from them more than P1.7 million worth of shabu in separate anti-illegal drug operations in Nueva Ecija on Friday afternoon, July 22. Photo from PNP Around 2:50 p.m., joint operatives from...
SINGAPORE, Singapore -- Singapore hanged a drug trafficker on Friday, the fifth execution in the city-state since March, after a court rejected a last-ditch appeal and despite pleas for clemency. The spate of hangings -- which included the widely criticised execution of a mentally disabled man in...
ONE-hundred seventy grams of suspected shabu worth P1.1 million were seized from a couple in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Camugao, Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental Wednesday, July 20. (Photo courtesy of the Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office) BACOLOD CITY – Police seized 170...
Politicians and law enforcers who became drug lords should be meted the death penalty as first offenders as they had taken their oaths of office to follow and respect Philippine laws. Senator Robinhood Padilla emphasized this view after coming out in the open supporting the bill of Senator Ronald...