TWO newly-emerged drug personalities from Manaoag and Mangaldan were arrested for drugs in a sting operation conducted by Dagupan City policemen, in coordination with the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA), at about 11:50 p.m. of Dec. 22 near Nepo Mall on Arellano-Bani in Dagupan City. Arrested by policemen in the drug buy-bust operation were Marvin Jay Obra,…
LINGAYEN –P/Chief Supt. Romulo E. Sapitula, newly designated Regional Director of the Ilocos region, expressed “deep concern” over the reported number of murder cases by the Pangasinan police in 2017during his first command visit to the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office on Dec. 16. Noting the 185 murder cases recorded during the briefing conducted…
SAN CARLOS CITY—The suspect in the murder of a city councilor here was nabbed, escaped then caught on Dec. 5 in Barangay Buayang Bato, Mandaluyong City. Combined police elements from the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group, Police Regional Office 3, Tarlac City and San Carlos City arrested Pauline Peralta, 22,…
SUNDAY EVENING MURDER — The lifeless body of Ramil De Venecia, a government employee lies at A.B. Fernandez St. in downtown Dagupan City after two unidentified male suspects shot him in the head at pointblank and casually walked away from the crime scene Sunday evening. (Punchphoto by Jojo Riñoza)
LINGAYEN–Two men claiming to be media men were arrested by the police on Dec. 3 in an entrapment operation after they demanded protection money from two owners of a mini-carnival in Barangay Dulag, Lingayen. Arrested in the act of receiving P2,000 marked money were Gil Ferrer, 61, who introduced himself as a columnist of tabloid…
A newly born baby died from suffocation when his protective young father sleeping beside him inside the OB ward 1 of Bayambang District Hospital (BDH) unknowingly covered his child’s face with his leg as he kept the latter secure under his legs. P/Superintendent Ronald Sacyat, Bayambang chief of police, said…
ROSALES—Beware of a motorcycle riding hold-up gang victimizing stranded travelers on the highways. A businessman from Bautista town lost P195,000 cash to three motorcycle-riding men who staged a hold-up upon seeing him alone while tending to a flat tire of his Chevrolet SUV along the provincial road between San Salvacion,…
OPLAN BOGA-OPLAN BAKAL TO avoid culpability for possessing unlicensed firearms, two incumbent municipal councilors of San Quintin voluntarily surrendered their firearms to the police whose licenses have expired. Councilor Fidel Reyes surrendered a 12-gauge shotgun and a cal. 45 pistol to the San Quintin Police while he surrendered 5 pieces…
LAOAC — The son of a former town mayor and the suspected financier and mastermind in the slaying of a policeman in San Carlos City on June 6 this year was arrested. Arrested was Rufino Estrimundo Tabayoyong Jr., alias “Bong”, son of late Laoac Mayor Westrimundo Tabayoyong, at his residence in…
THE Tunnel Gang struck again in Pangasinan and carted away some Php 1 million and valuables from the Producer Bank in Barangay Carmen West, Rosales in the early morning of November 20. The gang dug a tunnel from manhole in an adjacent irrigated rice field to the bank. According to Amy Agpoon Fernandez, 56, area manager…
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