PROSPERIDAD, Agusan del Sur – Police Col. Yahya B. Yusup has been named the new Agusan del Sur Provincial Police Office (PPO) chief. Yusup formally assumed the position in a change of command ceremony at the provincial police headquarters here on Monday, March 11. POLICE Col. Yahya B. Yusup...
BUTUAN CITY – A brick of suspected cocaine valued at P5.7 million was discovered by four residents on the shoreline of Burgos, Surigao del Norte, on Friday, March 8. Police Regional Office 13-Regional Public Information Office (RPIO) chief Police Major Jennifer S. Ometer said the pack of cocaine...
BUTUAN CITY – Sixty-six former New People’s Army fighters in the Caraga region received cash assistance from the government in Tandag City, Surigao del Sur, on Wednesday, March 6. INTERIOR and Local Government Secretary Benjamin Abalos Jr. (seated fourth from left) leads the turnover of...
CEBU CITY – Two drug groups could be behind the smuggling of huge amounts of shabu that were seized here recently, police said. Police Lt. Col. Gerard Ace Pelare said these two drug groups were identified during the custodial debriefing on arrested drug personalities. Pelare, spokesperson of...
Police arrested a 63-year-old Swiss man for allegedly cracking a bomb joke at the Siargao Domestic Airport on Tuesday, March 5. The suspect, Pet, who was about to leave the island after a vacation, uttered a bomb joke twice while at the airport in Barangay Sayak, Del Carmen, Surigao del Norte. He...
CAMP VICENTE LIM, Laguna – Three police officers have been identified as suspects in the robbery of a house at Grand Centennial Homes, Barangay Magdalo-Potol, Kawit, Cavite, on Tuesday, February 13. LUCAS announces the arrest of three policemen allegedly involved in a home robbery in Kawit,...
CAMP VICENTE LIM, Laguna – Police seized shabu worth P522,920 and a firearm from a suspected drug pusher in a buy-bust operation on Tuesday, March 5, in Barangay Maly, San Mateo, Rizal. Police Regional Office 4-A Director Police Brig. Gen. Paul Kenneth Lucas identified the suspect as Bong,...
CAMP COL. RAFAEL C. RODRIGUEZ, Butuan City – The Police Regional Office-13 seized illegal drugs valued at P8.4 million in a two-day Simultaneous Anti-Criminality Law Enforcement Operation in the Caraga region from March 1 to 2. PRO 13-Regional Public Information Office chief Police Major Jennifer...
CAMP COL. RAFAEL C. RODRIGUEZ, Butuan City – Nine lady police officers were honored for their accomplishments during the kickoff ceremony of National Women’s Month in the Caraga region in this camp on Monday, March 4. AWARDEES (standing back row) pose with PRO-13 chief Police Brig. Gen....
CAMP COL. RAFAEL C. RODRIGUEZ, Butuan City – Police have arrested a murder suspect in Barangay Poblacion, Trento, Agusan del Sur after 22 years in hiding. The Police Regional Office-13 said Rod, 56, was nabbed on a warrant for murder issued by the Regional Trial Court, 10th Judicial...
CAMP DANGWA, Benguet – Ten lady policemen and a civilian personnel were awarded medals for their achievements during the Women’s Month kickoff ceremony of the Police Regional Office-Cordillera in this camp on Monday, March 4. DR. Nancy Bantog of the Department of Science and...
TACLOBAN CITY – The provincial government and the Police Regional Office-8 (Eastern Visayas) have offered a P500,000 reward for information that would lead to the arrest of the gunmen of a barangay chairman, kagawad (councilor), and a barangay tanod (watchman) in Barangay Daja Diot, San Isidro,...
