MANGALDAN—A suspected gun-for-hire acquitted by a local court for murder was gunned down on Dec. 5 along Barangay Amansabina here. P/Superintendent Jeff Fanged, acting town police chief, said they found a caliber .45 tucked on his waist, a cellular phone and bonnet in the victim Leovino Alegria Sr, 60, resident…
BONUAN BINLOC IS DRUG-FREE — Mayor Belen Fernandez holds the certification that declared the once notorious Bonuan Binloc, tagged by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency as the most seriously drug affected barangay in Pangasinan, as drug free by the Dagupan police on the representation of the Barangay Anti Drug Advisory…
STA. BARBARA — A Special Investigation Task Group (SITG) was formed by acting-Police Provincial Director Ronald Oliver Lee to probe the ambush-slaying of the barangay chairman of Banzal in Sta. Barbara and three of his close relatives last Tuesday evening while crossing Malanay Bridge in Barangay Malanay. P/Chief Inspector Rex…
7 APPLICANTS GYPPED BASISTA – Seven distraught overseas jobseekers filed a complaint for large-scale estafa and illegal recruitment against an illegal recruiter from Barangay Palma who promised them jobs in South Korea. The seven, six of whom are from Basista and Urbiztondo, reported to the police that they were recruited by one Evelyn…
TAYUG–A policeman, a high value target in Region 1, was finally arrested for possession of shabu and illegal ammunitions in simultaneous raids in Rosales town on Nov. 27. P/Supt. Jackie Candelario, deputy police provincial director for operations, told local newsmen that Police Officer 3 Christian Caspillo was arrested in his…
BANI—Another barangay kapitan involved in drug trade was arrested. Combined police and anti-narcotics operatives arrested Tuesday morning the president of the Liga ng Barangay here who is a high-value target for illegal drugs here. A report from P/Senior Supt. Ronald Lee, acting Pangasinan police director, said Eduardo Ramones Jr, resident of…
LINGAYEN–A drug pusher who surrendered earlier was found dead and bloodied lying on the road in Sitio Limmansangan, Poblacion District 1 in Pozorrubio on the night of Nov. 21 with a message on a carton “Huwag ako tularan. Magnanakaw ako” on him. There was evidence that Mark Soriano, alias “Ingo”,…
FOR HIGHER POLICE VISIBILITY TO intensify police visibility particularly in remote areas not easily accessible to patrol cars, Pangasinan police started training foot patrolmen for bike patrol. Acting-Provincial Police Director Ronald Oliver Lee said bike patrols are very effective in crime prevention in remote areas or in places where an…
RAMPANT DRUG PEDDLING LINGAYEN–A 16-year-old student was arrested by the police in Umingan town for peddling illegal drugs in Barangay Caurdanetaan, Umingan at 11:00 a.m. on Nov. 17, the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO) reported. The suspect was identified as Joshua Rafael Abrena of Barangay Poblacion East, Umingan who sold…
SAN FABIAN–Two cousins involved in blast fishing were ambushed by unidentified armed men along the national highway in Barangay Alacan last Nov. 15, one of whom died on arrival at a hospital in Agoo, La Union. The fatality, Cesario B. Gadayos, 36, suffered multiple gunshot wounds in different parts of…
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