INTENSIFIED ANTI-DRUG WAR – The faces of the two high value targets in the drug war look crestfallen as the cash and drugs seized from them by the joint operatives of PDEA and PNP are lined up on the hood of their vehicle. (Punchphoto by Ahikam Pasion)
PHILIPPINE Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) operatives backed by the Calasiao Police Station arrested two high value targets in a drug buy-bust operation in Barangay San Miguel, Calasiao, on Friday, December 18. Arrested were suspects, Mark Joseph Acot, aka ‘Mar’, 32 years old, a resident of Baguio City, while accomplice Salvador…
ANTICIPATING possible attack by the New People’s Army (NPA) timed in during their 52nd anniversary last December 26, P/Colonel Ronald Gayo, police provincial director, placed the Pangasinan police on full alert. Gayo said the full alert was ordered after President Rodrigo Duterte decided not to declare a ceasefire with the…
UNDER the direction of P/Colonel Ronald Gayo, police provincial director, the campaign against illegal drugs is a top priority in Pangasinan and warned those involved in trading and use of illegal drugs to cease and desist before the police catch them. In his first press conference since assuming his new…
GENUINE PANGASINAN ICE CREAM — An ice cream vendor chooses a vantage point to take advantage of the message on the tarpaulin for the promotion of the Payamang Yaman, Produktong Pangasinan. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
THIRTY-six towns of Pangasinan were awarded by the Department of the Interior and Local Government for sustaining the “drug-cleared” status of their drug-affected barangays, while 16 of the 36, plus three others or 19 were awarded for sustaining their “unaffected barangays” status. The towns received the Anti-Drug Abuse Council (ADAC) Special Award…
“SOONER or later, makakalimutan na si Police Senior Master Sergeant Nuezca. Ang mag-i-stick sa mind nila ay PULIS ang gumawa. Nakakalungkot.” This was the sentiment shared by Arturo Lomibao, retired chief of the Philippine National Police (CPNP), reacting to the gun slay of Sonya Rufino Gregorio, 52, and her son Frank Anthony,…
ANTICIPATED SIMBANG GABI AT ST. JOHN CATHEDRAL – The parishioners of the Lingayen-Dagupan Archdiocese at St. John the Evangelist Cathedral stand outside the church for the 6 p.m. anticipated mass for the traditional Simbang Gabi. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
177 NEW ACTIVE CASES RECORDED TRUE to the prediction by health experts, cases of COVID-19 began to surge anew in Pangasinan, with 177 new confirmed active cases added to the list, raising the number of active cases in the province to 276 as of December 17 as compared to 159 last…
“I will be strict, but a disciplinarian with a heart.” This was how P/Colonel Ronald V. Gayo, described what the provincial government can expect of him as newly designated acting police provincial director of Pangasinan when he joined the Sangguniang Panlalawigan in their virtual session last December 14. Gayo, a…
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