REHABILITATION BEGINS THE 311 drug personalities from the town’s 32 barangays that surrendered to the Lingayen Police Station are already undergoing rehabilitation under the custody of the Lingayen Municipal Anti-Drug Abuse Council (MADAC). However, P/Superintendent Jackson Seguin, Lingayen chief of police said, the town’s police station will continue to monitor…

SAN NICOLAS — A Special Investigation Task Group (SITG) was formed by the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO) following the slaying of Calaocan Barangay Chairman Rolando Seguban Mejia early morning of January 10. SITG Mejia was formed by Police Provincial Director Ronald Lee to probe the slaying of Mejia, 59, by still unidentified…

LINGAYEN—Alert policemen here foiled an attempted robbery by a 19 –year-old resident of Barangay Malimpuec this town, inside the RCBC Bank branch dawn Wednesday. P/Supt. Jackson Seguin, town police chief, said the lone suspect, Wilkin Dave Austria, 19, was arrested around 3:30 a.m. Investigation showed Austria initially entered Columban Plaza and…

THERE was no shooting incident that supposedly killed seven persons on January 2 at the Paseo de Belen along the Judge Jose de Venecia Sr. Expressway in Dagupan City. This was promptly clarified by P/Superintendent Neil O. MIro, Dagupan City police chief, to belie a post on Facebook that a shooting…

BINALONAN — The four wounded victims of a grenade explosion here last December 24 were finally discharged from the hospital on January 2. P/Chief Inspector Lovell Dalisay, town police chief, said he checked on the wounded victims Wednesday in their residence in Barangay San Felipe Central here following the Dec….

CHRISTMAS DAY VIOLENCE THREE persons died while a barangay tanod was injured in separate stabbing incidents on Christmas Day and on Dec. 24. Orlando Rosario, 37, resident of Barangay Landas in Mangaldan was stabbed allegedly by his friend identified as Jun Sara, 33, resident of Barangay Buenlag, Calasiao, and later…

ROSALES — A fake dentist was arrested in an entrapment operation conducted by the police with the help of the Philippine Dentist Association (PDA) Pangasinan chapter in Barangay Station District early morning of December 23. The suspect, identified as Richard de la Cruz, alias “Repot”, 47, will be charged for Anti-Illegal Practice of Dental…

MANGALDAN—A former police officer who was a high value drug target for illegal drugs and suspected to be involved in gun-for-hire activities was shot dead in an armed encounter in a police buy-bust operation around 12:20 a.m. on Dec. 14 in the boundary here and Mapandan town. P/Supt. Jeff Fanged,…

CITY’S ONE-TIME, BIG-TIME OPS THE Dagupan police staged a ‘one-time, big-time’ operation last Monday and Tuesday and netted eight notorious drug pushers in simultaneous operations conducted in different parts of the city. Four were arrested in their homes when the police operatives served search warrants while two were arrested in separate buy-bust operations….

SAN CARLOS CITY–The notorious tunnel robbery gang is back in Pangasinan with a vengeance. The group that robs mostly pawn shops by digging tunnels, chose to victimize a pawnshop on Burgos-Padlan Street in San Carlos City on December 5. The Santuras Pawnshop owned by one Arnold Santos Sr., 60, lost to the tunnel robbery group P50,000…