AN unidentified man placed inside a sack believed to be a drug personality was found at the golf course area in Barangay Sitio Bliss, Bonuan Binloc, this city on April 25. A concerned citizen reported the discovery of the cadaver to the police that has traces of torture, with stab…

MANGALDAN—A drug suspect was killed in an armed encounter with operatives of Mangaldan Police and the provincial police during a drug sting before midnight on April 28. Dead was Dante Mones from Villasis whose other personal circumstances are still unknown. His unidentified companion fled. A hot pursuit operation ensued after…

BINALONAN–A barangay captain here is being investigated following his arrest in a raid in his residence in Barangay Santiago for illegal possession of firearms on April 25. Nabbed by virtue of search warrant issued by Executive Judge Ma. Ellen Aguilar of the Regional Trial Court, First Judicial Region, Branch 70,…

URDANETA CITY—Two dead men suspected to be drug personalities were found in Barangay Catablan this city on April 27. P/Superintendent Neil Miro, officer-in-charge at the city police station, said the two bodies with bullet wounds, had two placards placed around them that read “Pusher ako, wag tularan.” “In our initial…

THE Dagupan Police is still facing a blank wall in its investigation of the slaying of an Indian national in an interior road in Barangay Bonuan Boquig by two unidentified men who were caught by a closed-circuit television (CCTV) camera fleeing from the crime scene at past 12:15 p.m. Saturday…

BAYAMBANG–A task group was formed by the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO) to probe the killing of a policeman here, a known staunch anti-illegal drugs operative. P/Chief Inspector Norman Florentino, head of the Police Community Relations, and PPPO spokesperson, told local newsmen during the KBP Forum that the suspect in…

LINGAYEN – A number of self-confessed drug users-pushers who surrendered to the police last year have since returned to their criminal activities, among them a 31-year-old single woman in Lingayen. The town police collared Imelda Adonis Arquiza, a self-confessed user and pusher in Solis Street, Poblacion District. P/Chief Inspector Wilmer…

GUN DUEL OVER A GRUDGE SAN CARLOS CITY—Two men who were in the middle of a drinking spree with mutual friends in a birthday party last April 16 in Barangay Ano ended up in a gun duel that resulted in one being killed while the other took a bullet in…

THE Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency will soon decide if the remote town of Agno will be declared soon as drug-free municipality. P/Sr. Inspector Frank Catalan, the town’s OIC-chief of police, said though the 17 Barangays of Agno were already declared drug-free last January 27, the town is still waiting for…

URDANETA CITY—A member of a gun-for-hire group died while another was arrested in an armed encounter with policemen at around 12:45 a.m. of April 11 along Barangay Nancayasan this city. P/Superintendent Neil Miro, newly designated acting-police chief here, identified the fatality as Udang Reyes who was rushed to Urdaneta District Hospital…