WHY rob tightly guarded banks and pawnshops when one can rob unguarded fishponds? Or so thought some ten armed men who attempted to harvest bangus from the fishpond owned by Erwin Dee in Barangay Pugaro, Dagupan City. Arrested by responding team of Special Weapon and Tactics led by P/Sr. Inspector…

ASINGAN – A barangay captain was gunned down inside his home in Barangay Sobol here on Sept. 8. The fatality was identified as Sobol’s Barangay Captain Crisostomo Soberano, 51. He succumbed to gunshot wounds from caliber .45 by unknown gunmen. Soberano had just arrived from Clark International Airport in Pampanga…

A 28-year-old tricycle driver and a resident of Bacayao Norte, Dagupan City, was arrested by policemen on patrol after he was chanced upon talking to an unidentified person on board a single motorcycle beside a sari-sari store at Amado St., along Tapuac Road at 3:30 a.m. on Sept. 12. Arrested was Jonathan Dacanay, alias “Estong”, from whom lawmen seized one…

ALAMINOS CITY—The barangay captain of Pandan was wounded when he was ambushed by two armed men in Barangay Sabangan at 11:30 a.m. of September 14. The victim, Ricardo Legaspi, 65, was bound for home on board the barangay vehicle, an L-300 close van, when two armed men from the roadside opened…

A RESORT owner in Dagupan City was wounded when he was shot by one of their two customers whose names were not known at presstime in a possible case of love triangle, at 6:30 p.m. of September 15 in Bonuan Binloc, Dagupan City. The victim was identified as Rommel Ramos,…

LINGAYEN—Two cattle rustlers were arrested after they were caught red-handed by the caretaker stealing the cows on September 13 at Barangay Rosario here. The suspects were identified as Aljine Molina, 25, resident of Barangay Bogaoan San Carlos City and Jeric Preito, 25 and a resident of Barangay Guelew San Carlos…

STO. TOMAS—The lifeless bodies of father and son in Barangay San Antonio here were recovered in different towns along Agno River on September 12 and 13. Based on the initial investigation, Jeffrey Garcia, 39 and his son Jerome Garcia, 10 went on electro fishing on September 12 in the Agno…