LINGAYEN—Police efforts to keep barangays drug-free after being declared officially cleared are more difficult. This phase in the war on drugs in the region was acknowledged by the director of the Philippine National Police (PNP) Region 1 prompting him to echo his challenge to the police to sustain their enthusiasm…
ROSALES—A bishop of a Born Again Christian religious group was arrested on March 7 for estafa and falsification of private documents in his temporary residence in Villa Sto. Tomas in Barangay San Marcos, Sto. Tomas town. Rosales town police chief, P/Chief Inspector Ador Tayag said arrested was Hernando Bruce, 56,…
SAN CARLOS CITY—A barangay tanod was arrested after two search warrants were served at his residence in Barangay Magtaking in the city early morning last Tuesday, March 6. Arrested, for violation of Republic Act No. 10591 or illegal possession of firearms and ammunition, and the other is for violation of…
PNP STATIONS WARNED CALASIAO – The war on drugs in Pangasinan netted a village councilman of Barangay Mancup, Calasiao in a drug buy-bust operation inside a beer garden in Barangay San Miguel, Calasiao Monday night, February 26. The town police and and elements of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) arrested Jonathan…
DAGUPAN City Police Station (DCPS) downplayed reports that a vigilante group is operating in the city. P/Chief Inspector Marcos Anod, deputy police chief, said, the surveillance and monitoring by the station’s Intelligence Division showed no indication that a vigilante group is behind the latest killing involving two men who bore…
THE Regional Civil Security Unit 1 received the 1,539 loose (unlicensed) firearms that the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO) seized and recovered during a turnover ceremony led by Police Regional Office 1 Director, P/Chief Superintendent Romulo Sapitula at the PPPO grandstand in Lingayen. Sapitula said the seized firearms was a…
THREE suspected members of a gun-for-hire gang men were arrested in simultaneous raids in Umingan town early morning last Tuesday, February 6. Arrested with the simultaneous implementation of search warrants number 145 to 148 issued by Tayug Judge Emma S. Ines – Parajas of the RTC Branch 52 were Rudy…
HERE’S a stern warning to policemen and government employees with gambling habits from the PNP regional director: You better not be caught entering casinos and other gambling establishments or else… P/Chief Superintendent Romulo Sapitula made this clear in no unmistakable terms during his Bombo Radyo Dagupan interview on Feb. 8….
ROSALES—The firing of his gun indiscriminately led policemen to the businessman’s house in Barangay Coliling, Rosales in the morning of Jan. 30 that resulted in his arrest and five other persons when 30 firearms, live ammunition and illegal drugs were found in the house. Hearing the gun bursts, the police…
A CASE of violation of Dangerous Drugs Act was filed against one Rouella Rosell, 36 years old and a mother of two kids, of Poblacion Mapandan, after she was caught in the act of selling illegal drugs to an undercover operative of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency. P/Chief Inspector Norman…
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