*BY RICHIELYN CANLAS * Around 670 Pasigueño participants joined the “Lakad Laban sa Droga para sa Bida” advocacy march on Saturday, June 24, in celebration of International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking (IDADAIT) in Pasig City. The IDADAIT 2023, themed "People first: stop...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Sunday, June 25 urged the public to be wary of finance applications that can be downloaded online on Google Play or Apple Store and other websites but are actually lending applications that victimizes oblivious customers. ...
DATU PIANG, Maguindanao del Sur (PNA) – Authorities here disarmed and detained five members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) for possession of unlicensed firearms on Thursday, June 22. “We saw men with firearms,” Police Lt. Col. Armando Liwan, municipal police chief, told reporters...
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...
CAMP RAFAEL C. RODRIGUEZ, Butuan City – The Police Regional Office-13 arrested 175 individuals for allegedly engaging in illegal cockfighting in the Caraga region from Jan 1. to June 19, 2023. PRO-13 Director Police Brig. Gen. Pablo G. Labra II said bet money totaling P185,282 were seized from...
CAMP RAFAEL C. RODRIGUEZ, Butuan City – The Police Regional Office-13 arrested 629 persons for illegal gambling in the Caraga region from Jan. 1 to June 15, 2023. The PRO 13-Regional Operations Division (ROD) said 133 police operations led to the confiscation of P354,558 in bet money from...
MABINI, Batangas – The mayor of this town and his two siblings were arrested after unlicensed firearms were seized from them during a raid by the Philippine National Police-Criminal Investigation and Detection Group-National Capital Region in their houses here on Saturday, June 17. The raids...
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...
CAMP OLIVAS, City of San Fernando, Pampanga – A barangay kagawad who is allegedly a member of a big criminal group operating in Bulacan was arrested for illegal possession of firearms on Thursday, June 15. The suspect, identified as Edgardo Cruz, 50, barangay kagawad of Barangay Umpucan in...
Debtors deserve to be treated fairly and with dignity. That is the message of Senate Majority Leader Joel Villanueva when he filed a resolution which seeks to investigate the rise of unauthorized and unregistered online lending platforms in the country and victimizes hundreds of vulnerable...
CAMP RAFAEL C. RODRIGUEZ, Butuan City – Police seized more than P13,000 worth of illegally cut lumber in Mainit, Surigao del Norte in line with its continuous anti-illegal logging campaign on Friday, June 9. Acting on a report of an illegal logging activity, the Mainit Municipal Police Station...
