GONZAGA, Cagayan – A 43-year-old businessman was allegedly abducted here on Monday, March 27. Police are conducting an in-depth investigation and hot-pursuit operation against the kidnappers of Romel Hoseña Barwasi of Barangay Progressive, this town. Capt. Shiela Joy Fronda of the Cagayan Police...
CAMP RAFAEL C. RODRIGUEZ, Butuan City – The Police Regional Office-13 on Friday, March 24, debunked reports that six missionaries were kidnapped in Surigao del Sur. Social media posts and text messages had earlier claimed that six missionaries of Wycliffe Bible Translators, including a foreigner,...
A taxi driver was arrested for the killing of a 79-year-old woman who went missing in Quezon City last Jan. 14, the Quezon City Police District (QCPD) announced in a press conference on Monday, Feb. 13. The QCPD Criminal Investigation Unit (CIDU) identified the suspect as Mark Anthony Valera Cosio...
Police arrested three foreigners for their alleged involvement in the kidnapping of a Chinese woman in a condominium complex in Pasay City. Gen. Rodolfo Azurin, Jr., chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), said the operation that led to the arrest of the three suspects in Bacoor City in...
CAVITE – Authorities rescued a Chinese woman allegedly kidnapped by three Chinese men in Barangay Molino 4, Bacoor City on Thursday evening, Jan. 5. Bacoor City Police Station (CPS) identified the 28-year-old victim as alias Wu, a resident of Neijiang City, Sichuan, China. The suspects were...
CALAPAN CITY, Oriental Mindoro – A 37-year-old woman wanted for kidnapping was arrested after more than three years of hiding in Palawan, police said. A LADY police operative shows copies of warrants of arrest against 37-year-old Jai Sunshine S. Chua. (Photo via Jerry Alcayde) Brig. Gen....
ZAMBOANGA CITY – An Abu Sayyaf Group sub-leader detained for kidnapping at the Tawi-Tawi Provincial Jail in Bongao, Tawi-Tawi is facing additional charges of frustrated murder, police said. ASG sub-leader Injimar Mangkabong detained at the Tawi-Tawi Provincial Jail faces additional charges of...
A man involved in alleged kidnapping in Cavite was arrested in Quezon City after his four victims mauled him while they were travelling to Manila on Monday, Nov. 28. Lt. Col. Janis Ballesteros, Quezon City Police District (QCPD) Talipapa Station (PS 3) commander, identified the arrested suspect as...
Bureau of Immigration (BI) Commissioner Norman Tansingco has fired a job-order employee implicated in the kidnap-for-ransom attempt in Muntinlupa City last week. The employee was one of the 10 suspects arrested by the operatives of the Southern Police District (SPD). Police said the suspects posed...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Police arrested on Thursday, Nov. 17, in Asturias, Sulu an Abu Sayyaf Group member allegedly involved in the abduction of broadcast journalist Ces Drilon and the decapitation of a school teacher in 2009. ABU Sayyaf kidnap suspect Ibrahim Esani Asara (left). Major William Maisog,...
TUBA, Benguet – The two women found dead on the side of a cliff in Sitio Inonas, Barangay Taloy Sur here on Monday, Oct. 31, are the daughter and niece of an active police officer. Staff Sgt. Albert Peralta Quiros of the Pozorrubio Municipal Police Station in Pangasinan identified the...
Have you ever seen or read Gone Girl? One lawmaker wants stiff legal penalties against individuals who stage their own kidnapping and disappearance, an act called fake or “hoax kidnapping", or "kidnap me". (Pixabay) Santa Rosa City Rep. Dan Fernandez filed House Bill (HB) 539, which seek to turn...
