SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union – Marijuana valued at P3.4 million was destroyed in a joint eradication operation in the boundaries of Ilocos Sur and Benguet. The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-La Union Provincial Office (PDEA-LUPO), PDEA-Ilocos Sur Provincial Office (ISPO), Police Regional...
COTABATO CITY – Seven persons, including a minor, were injured in a grenade explosion in a bar here on Sunday, Sept. 11. Authorities have ruled out terrorism as motive in the incident. City Mayor Bruce Matabalao described the incident as isolated, triggered by warring groups who were having...
BUTUAN CITY (PNA) – Police have arrested a top New People’s Army leader in Surigao del Norte. DOLERA mugshot The Surigao del Norte Provincial Police Office (SDNPPO) reported Monday, Sept. 12, that she is Nenita Generalao Dolera, 31, secretary of NPA Guerrilla Front 19, Sub-Regional Committee...
CEBU CITY – A German was wounded after he was shot by motorcycle-riding gunmen in Barangay Danao, Panglao, Bohol on Monday, Sept. 12. Police identified the victim as Pantaleone Voci, 64. The Panglao Municipal Police Station said that the victim was doing his routine morning exercise outside his...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – A suspected drug pusher was killed while shabu valued at P408,000 was seized in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Bunguiao here on Sunday, Sept. 11. Col. Alexander Lorenzo, acting city police chief, said a police poseur-buyer was transacting with two drug suspects when one of them...
TABUK CITY, Kalinga – Police on Sunday, Sept. 11, arrested in Barangay Tanglagan, Calanasan, Apayao a New People’s Army (NPA) rebel wanted for the ambush that killed two soldiers in 2009 in Lubuagan, Kalinga. Suspect Victor Mangao, 49, alias “Ka Salas,” of Western Uma, Lubuagan, Kalinga and...
ISULAN, Sultan Kudarat – Police on Saturday, Sept. 10, arrested a mayor from Maguindanao who is facing murder charges in a hotel in Davao City. DOCTORS attend to Mayor Khadafe Mangudadatu (in bed) of Pandag, Maguindanao in a hospital where he was taken for difficulty in breathing after he was...
SUBIC, Zambales – The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA)-Zambales and local police nabbed a drug den operator and four others in a buy-bust operation in Purok 4, Barangay Matain, here on Saturday, Sept. 10. Arrested were Loida M. Predas, 47, drug den operator, and her four patrons...
Former Senator Leila de Lima recalled that the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor already mentioned the names of former President Rodrigo Duterte and former Philippine National Police (PNP) chief and now Senator Ronald dela Rosa as two of the personalities possibly responsible for the...
ILOILO CITY – Police arrested the No. 1 most wanted person in Western Visayas in Caluya, Antique on Friday, Sept. 9. CASTAÑEDA mugshot. (Police photo) The Police Regional Office (PRO)-6 identified the suspect as Roland Saulong Castañeda, 40. He was nabbed by the PRO-6 Regional Intelligence...
CEBU CITY – Police seized packs of suspected shabu amounting to at least P2 million from two men in a buy-bust operation in Talisay City, Cebu on Friday, Sept. 9. The suspects were identified as John Ian Amigable, 22, and Jonathan Alas-as, 25. The Talisay City Police Station-Drug Enforcement Unit...
CEBU CITY – Police arrested seven persons in a week-long anti-illegal gambling operation in Cebu. The campaign targeted individuals involved in the illegal numbers game called “swertres.” On Tuesday, Sept. 6, four persons were arrested, including Philip Mapoy Laging, an employee of the Saturn...
