LINGAYEN–Seven persons were arrested by the police in simultaneous search warrant operations in the campaign against unlicensed firearms in three towns on September 19. Arrested in Asingan by virtue of search warrants to father and his two sons, Victoriano Aquino Sr, 74; his son, Victoriano Jr., 34, and son Vicente, 50….

VILLASIS–Two persons were arrested by the police within hours after they were identified by the driver and conductor to be behind another incident of bus stoning along the national highway in Pangasinan. The Five Star bus was stoned in Barangay Bacag at about 10:40 p.m., September 19  while negotiating the…

FOR still unknown motive, the deputy chief tanod of Barangay Bonuan Binloc in Dagupan City was gunned down and killed while seeking shelter from the rain inside a sari-sari store on China Street in that village. The victim, Jerry Mangsat, 49, a resident of Sitio America in Bonuan Binloc, was…

SAN JACINTO—The barangay chairman of Bolo, San Jacinto was gunned down and killed in Barangay Capaoay here at 2:00 p.m. on September 18. Edward Ronquillo, the barangay chairman, was riding his motorcycle along the barangay road in Capaoay after coming from a meeting at the municipal hall in Poblacion, San…

LINGAYEN — Except for a raid on a illegal gambling den in Urdaneta City, no other crime was registered  by the police on September 15, a day after Super Typhoon “Ompong” battered Pangasinan. This was gleaned in the daily police incident report of the Pangasinan Police Provincial which showed that only a…

UMINGAN—The third and fourth most wanted persons in San Luis, Batangas, both residents of Umingan, were arrested in Brgy Poblacion West, last September 4, 2018 at 11:15 a.m., according to Police Regional Office 1 (PRO1). The wanted persons were identified as Ronald Rico Ylagan, 33 years old, married and Joseph Rico Ilagan, 32 years old, single,…

LINGAYEN–An incumbent barangay kagawad of Bunlalacao, Mangatarem was the most notorious drug personality arrested by lawmen in their continuing drug clearing operations from August 25 to 29. Barangay Kagawad Rene Escalante, 63, included in the PNP and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency’s (PDEA) narco list of barangay officials, was arrested…

TAYUG—An incumbent Barangay Kagawad of Carriedo, Tayug was arrested by the police in the early morning of August 27 for illegal possession of firearms and ammunition. Raul Lombok Macato, 51, was arrested after lawmen served a search warrant issued by Regional Trial Court Judge Mervin Jovita Samahan of the Regional Trial Court Branch…

BANI — A member of a notorious gun-for-hire group was arrested in a coordinated raid of his house in Barangay Ballag at about 7 A.M. on August 22, the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO) reported. Arrested was Norberto Necesito, 29, a member of the Corpuz-Humilde group, a newly identified criminal…

LINGAYEN–Twelve drug pushers, some of them former surrenderers, were arrested in a series of anti-drug operations conducted by the police, in coordination with the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in 8 towns and 1 city in the province last week. The arrests were made in Bugallon, Balungao, Malasiqui, Mangaldan, Basista, Binmaley,…