LUCENA CITY — A suspected high-value drug trafficker was arrested on Saturday in a buy-bust operation in Cainta, Rizal, resulting in the seizure of more than P2.7 million worth of shabu (crystal meth). The Rizal Police Provincial Office said local anti-narcotics operatives collared the suspect, identified as “Has,” at 11:15 p.m. after he allegedly sold […]
Read MoreMANILA – The Philippine National Police (PNP) has placed all units in the Bangsamoro region on heightened alert to preempt any retaliatory attacks after 10 suspected members of the local Dawlah Islamiyah-Maute Group (DI-MG) were killed in a Lanao del Sur encounter on Friday. PNP chief Gen. Jose Melencio Nartatez Jr. directed local police forces […]
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines — Two individuals were arrested by the Philippine National Police – Highway Patrol Group (PNP-HPG) on Thursday in San Mateo, Rizal for traffic violations and transporting undocumented diesel. The authorities also said that the 46 year-old driver from Camarines Sur and an 18 year-old from Valenzuela City failed to provide valid driver’s license […]
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines — A man allegedly bit two police officers while he was being arrested for supposedly causing a disturbance in Marikina City, the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) reported. The two police officers, who were patrolmen, were deployed to a home along Dao Street in Barangay Marikina Heights after receiving a call from […]
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines — A father and a son on Wednesday surrendered over the killing of a man at a computer shop in Manila, Mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso announced. In his “Talk to the People” livestream, Moreno identified the suspects as Jeffrey, 49; and Jefferson Saludar, 25; and the victim as John John Bacolod, 46. […]
Read MoreCOTABATO CITY — The Cotabato City Police Office (CCPO) seized boxes of suspected smuggled cigarettes worth nearly P3 million in a remote area in Timako, Barangay Kalanganan 2, on Wednesday morning. Colonel Jibin Bongcayao, CCPO director, told the Inquirer that personnel from Police Station 3 received information about the alleged presence of a truck loaded […]
Read MoreBACOLOD CITY – Three police operations in the cities of Bacolod and Himamaylan in Negros Occidental yielded a total of PHP49.3 million in smuggled cigarettes, reports of the Police Regional Office-Negros Island Region (PRO-NIR) showed. “The two were hired by an unidentified individual to transport the cargo from an unknown warehouse. Upon noticing suspicious markings […]
Read MoreMALASIQUI, Pangasinan – Authorities recaptured on Tuesday two persons under police custody who escaped in Sual, Pangasinan, Pangasinan Police Provincial Office information officer Capt. Aileen Catugas, in a statement, said the recaptures were Jerry Velasco Calib Jr., 26, in Sitio Madangla, Barangay Caoayan, Sual, Pangasinan, and Reynaldo Dizon, 40, from Domalandan East, Lingayen. “The successful […]
Read MoreKIDAPAWAN CITY — Six armed men made off with about P13 million worth of jewelry and cash after robbing a pawnshop in the city’s public market on Saturday morning, April 11, police said. Lt. Col. Argie Celeste, Kidapawan City police chief, said four of the suspects carried out the 9 a.m. heist inside the pawnshop, […]
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines — A Bacoor court has issued a warrant of arrest against an Italian national and his two Filipino co-accused for serious illegal detention and large-scale illegal recruitment, both non-bailable offenses. Judge Froilan Buenventura Pitpit of the Bacoor City Regional Trial Court found probable cause to hold Italian Adel En Nouri and his co-accused […]
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