SAN CARLOS CITY– Suspected guns-for-hire out to kill their target, followed the latter to a neighbor’s house where he tried to hide and shot him to death last August 14 at about 5:40 p.m. in Barangay Doyong, San Carlos City. The fatality was identified as Roger Masiglat, 39, a mango sprayer…

A barangay kagawad of Manambong Sur in Bayambang town was arrested on August 15. P/Superintendent Fidel DG Junio, Bayambang police chief, said kagawad Nelson Pagador Latorre was arrested on the basis of a search warrant served and found one unit of Armsacor cal.45 pistol; eleven bullets and one magazine for cal. .45 pistol, and 11 bullets for a shotgun. Joint elements of Bayambang Police Station…

URDANETA CITY–A notorious criminal group engaged in illegal drugs, hold-up, guns-for-hire and carnapping, was neutralized after three of its members, among them its leader, died in an encounter with members of the Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team of the Urdaneta City Police in the early morning of August 8 along the…

MANGATAREM — A barangay kagawad of Barangay Bogtong Bunao this town accidentally shot to death his wife when he missed his intended target , the barangay captain with whom who he had a heated argument. The shooting incident that killed Teresita Vicente and wounded Barangay Chairman Ronaldo Aquino happened on August 9 in Barangay Bogtong…

THE National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) district office in Dagupan City has filed a motion for reconsideration for the human trafficking and child abuse cases it filed against two Chinese and one Taiwanese nationals dismissed by the Provincial Prosecutor’s Office in Lingayen. The foreigners were charged for employing minors and…

LINGAYEN–Four more newly emerged drug personalities (NEDP) were arrested in separate buy-bust operations by elements of Drug Enforcement Units (DEU) and two others for illegal possession of firearms in separate towns of Pangasinan. Arrested on July 29 at about 10:45 p.m. in Brgy Palma, Basista was Andrew Diaz, alias “Iya”, 28, a newly…

DRUG OPS DURING 3-DAY FLOOD LINGAYEN–Despite the widespread flood in Pangasinan, police and PDEA operatives did not take a day off and continued operations against illegal drugs in various towns, resulting in the arrest of 10 newly identified drug pushers, three of whom were former drug surrenderers. Among those arrested was…

MALASIQUI—The local police arrested the town’s third most wanted persons for several estafa and illegal recruitment cases on July 24. P/Superintendent Franklin Ortiz, town police chief, said Loreta Bayotas, 49, widow, a resident of Barangay Olea this town, was nabbed by virtue of an alias warrant of arrest for estafa with…

LINGAYEN—The simultaneous drug buy-bust operation conducted by the police in various towns in coordination with the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA), on July 17 resulted in the arrest of 10 suspected drug pushers and seizure of several sachets of shabu. Three of the 10 suspects were arrested in Dagupan City,…

NATIVIDAD — An arrested theft suspect in Barangay Bachelor East found himself in far more serious problem after the police arrested him for stealing a cellphone. Found in his possession also was one heat-sealed transparent sachet of dried marijuana leaves and two marijuana sticks. The suspect, Denny Dominguez, 37, a …