A SUSPECTED drug peddler in Barangay Pantal, Dagupan City was arrested when joint elements of the police and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Region 1 implemented a search warrant in her house and premises on June 26. The suspect was identified as Arminda Damaso y Yuson, who is also known…

LA UNION—A region-wide anti-gambling operations conducted by the Police Regional Office 1 from June 15 to 18, 2018 led to the arrest of 123 persons caught gambling. PNP Regional Director P/Chief Superintendent Romulo E. Sapitula said the simultaneous operations against anti-illegal gambling operations were conducted in Pangasinan, Ilocos Sur, Ilocos Norte, and La…

STA. BARBARA—The town’s police were out only to serve a search warrant on a person suspected of keeping an unlicensed firearm, but arrested the suspect as well for being a newly identified drug personality. Lawmen served a search warrant at the house of Marlon Cruz Balansay, alias “Banong”, 48, in…

MANGALDAN–A man was shot dead in an armed encounter with the police at about 4:30 a.m. on June 20 in Brgy Navaluan, Mangaldan. The police said the suspect, only known as “Artek” ignored a checkpoint set up by policemen implementing Oplan Sita and Oplan Rody. Instead of slowing down, the suspect sped up and even opened fire…

LINGAYEN–Fifteen persons were apprehended by the police when they implemented Oplan Rody in separate towns in Pangasinan on June 20. First to be arrested were three male students caught roaming the public street of Balungao town at past 10:00 p.m. The students were initially brought to the Balungao Police Station for profiling before they…

LINGAYEN— The Lingayen police arrested an incumbent barangay kagawad here following the service of search warrant at his residence in Barangay Malawa at about 5:40 a.m, on June 10. The suspect was identified as Rodolfo de Guzman, 55, in whose house the joint elements of the 1st Provincial Mobile Company…

LINGAYEN—Five persons were apprehended separately by the police for smoking in public on June 10 Arrested in Malasiqui town were Diolazo, 40, of Barangay Tambac, an embalmer; William Laya, 55, a driver of Barangay David, Mangaldan; and Eddie Galoy, 47, of Panda, Bulacan. Also apprehended were Salvador Bonzo, 66, of…

MANAOAG—A newly emerged/identified drug personality and his companion fell following a drug buy- bust operation conducted by joint elements of the Manaoag Police, Provincial Anti-Illegal Drugs Operations Task Group (PAIDSTOG) and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in Barangay Babasit, Manaoag in the afternoon of June 10. The suspects were…

BURGOS, SUAL CASUALTIES A FORMER Liga ng Barangay president and newly-elected barangay kapitan of Concordia of Burgos town and the newly-elected barangay kapitan of Barangay Sto. Domingo in Sual town were shot and killed two days apart by hitmen riding in tandem. In Burgos, Santiago Abella, 66, incumbent barangay kagawad…

CALASIAO–A drug personality on the watch list was shot by an unidentified suspect in Barangay San Vicente here on June 6 at 4:50 p.m. but survived. The victim, Johnfar de Celis Lamzen, sustained gunshot wounds on his left leg, left arm and butt and was rushed to the Pangasinan Provincial Hospital in…