ZAMBOANGA CITY – Local and national government personnel and the business sector joined the third quarterly earthquake drill here on Thursday, Sept. 11. At the sound of the siren, City Hall employees went out of their offices and executed the duck, cover, and hold move while moving to open spaces...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Authorities seized several high-powered firearms in an island barangay here on Thursday, Sept. 11. Confiscated were two M14 rifles, one M203 grenade launcher, and one Garand rifle. They were abandoned by an unidentified man who reportedly escaped after sensing the arrival of the...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Authorities arrested two people, including a police officer, and seized smuggled cigarettes valued at P16.1 million in an intelligence-driven operation here on Thursday. Police Col. Fidel Fortaleza Jr., Zamboanga City Police Office (ZCPO) chief, withheld the identities of the...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Police are investigating the murder of a man on the highway in Barangay Limo-ok, Lamitan City, Basilan province on Tuesday, Sept. 9. Police identified the victim as Nassir Maruji Abdulhari, a resident of Barangay Mangalut in Akbar municipality, Basilan. Abdulhari sustained...
ZAMBOANGA CITY - The city government, police, and the military gathered on Tuesday, Sept. 9, at the Freedom Fighters Memorial here to commemorate the 12th anniversary of the Zamboanga Siege. Mayor Khymer Olaso led officials during the wreath-laying ceremony to honor the heroes who lost their lives...
ZAMBOANGA CITY - A Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA)-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) liaison school here was robbed of P128,000 on Saturday, Sept. 6. The robbery was discovered on Sept. 8, Monday, by a utility worker responsible for opening and...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Maritime police officers rescued 12 people, including six children, early Monday after they received a distress call from a drifting motorboat here. Police Capt. Allan Pestañas, boat officer of the Zamboanga City Maritime Police Station (ZC MARPSTA), said the stranded passengers...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Nedznyl Amjad Tulawie, the primary suspect in the murder of three men here, surrendered to authorities at dawn on Monday, Sept. 8, in Camp Police Senior Supt. Julasirim A. Kasim in Asturias, Jolo, Sulu. Personnel of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) served the...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Work in government and private offices here and other provinces in the Zamboanga Peninsula were suspended Friday in observance of Mauluddin Nabi or the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad. The suspension was contained in a memorandum issued by the National Commission on Muslim...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Rear Admiral Constancio Arturo Reyes Jr. is the new head of the Western Mindanao Naval Command. Reyes took over from acting commander Capt. Hilarion Cesista during a change-of-command ceremony on Tuesday, Sept. 2. Brig. Gen. Romulo Quemado II, acting commander of the Western...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – A businessman, the son of a barangay councilwoman and a most wanted person, surrendered to authorities here on Thursday, Sept. 4, for shooting a councilman in Barangay Tumaga in May. The suspect, Alvin Abas Gaganting, 42, was accompanied by his mother, Carolina. Alvin was...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Authorities seized shabu worth over P1 billion here in August. Two big shipments were recovered 11 days apart. On Aug. 19, an ex-soldier was arrested with P27-million shabu, a breakthrough which led police to confiscate the two biggest volumes of illegal drugs confiscated in...
