LINGAYEN—A 34-year-old member of the Castillo Group, known for its notorious illegal drug trade and gun-for-hire activities in the province, was killed in an armed encounter here when the police attempted to serve a warrant of arrest last October 11. The target of the warrant of arrest for slight physical…

A SUSPECTED drug personality is now in critical condition at a hospital after he was shot and wounded by unidentified motorcycle-riding hitmen at about 1:50 p.m. of October 11 along the Manila North Road in Barangay Anonas in Urdaneta City. The victim was identified as Mamerto Quero Milo Jr., 50,…

A CONSTRUCTION worker was among those arrested by the Dagupan police in recent weeks in a buy-bust operation along M.H. Del Pilar Street in front of the former Pantranco Terminal midnight of October 1. Arrested in a buy-bust operation was Daniel Rodriguez, alias “Bending”, 30, of Guilig Street in Dagupan City. The operation was led by…

TWO days after a suspected drug personality was shot dead in Dagupan by still unidentified suspects on Oct. 4, another personality in the drug watch list was shot dead at 8:20 a.m.  Thursday, Oct. 6,  along a busy national highway in Barangay Mayombo here. Shot dead by two armed men riding on a…

BOLINAO–A high-value drug personality target and his cohort, also a drug personality, were arrested at 5:00 a.m. of Oct. 2 in Barangay Salud, Bolinao. The suspects were identified as Julius Cacho, 52, listed as among top drug personalities of the police, and his cousin Jerome Cacho, 32. The searches in…

FIVE persons were arrested by the Dagupan police, two in a buy-bust operation while the three others were caught in the middle of a pot session, in a residential house owned by one Rolly Aquino on Malued District in Dagupan at 3:00 p.m. on Oct. 5. Arrested in the buy-bust…

INCIDENT CLAIMS ONE VICTIM URDANETA—The barangay captain of Pinmaludpod and his driver were killed by gunmen but in the process, a woman later died after she was hit by the vehicle of the victims. Urdaneta City police station identified the victims as Barangay Chairman Bartolome Andrada, a high-value target drug…

DRUG SUSPECTS TARGETTED TAYUG — A barangay councilwoman identified by the town’s police as a  high-value target and a top drug personality, was shot dead by unidentified persons on October 6 at about 10:20 a.m. along a road in Barangay Evangelista here. The victim was identified as Gladys Nollido, 50,…

LABRADOR—A man trapped inside a house razed by fire died early morning on October 6. The Labrador Police Station (LPS) said it was the two-level house of a certain Ricardo Castro rented by the staff of Kazama Grameen Incorporated that razed to the ground. The victim Arnold Retotar, resident of…

SAN FERNANDO CITY– A total of 33,573 self-confessed drug personalities in Region 1 already surrendered to the police from July 1 to Sept. 23 this year, with Pangasinan topping the list. According to P/Chief Supt. Gregorio Pimentel, police regional director, the number includes pushers and users who surrendered to the different police units in…