MANGATAREM—Unlike in other towns where arrested drug pushers were made to exhibited in ‘parade of shame’, this town did it differently. Almost 600 self-confessed drug users and pushers in this town who surrendered last week joined barangay officials and the police in the town’s “Parada ng Pagkaka-isa sa Pagsugpo sa…

DAGUPAN City Police Chief P/Supt. Christopher Abrahano declared on Thursday that the so-called “Dagupan Death Squad” or “DDS” does not exist”. “There is no such thing as Dagupan Death Squad,” Abrahano pointed out during the KBP Forum. “Huwag ho tayong magpapaniwala diyan sa karatula kasi, mini-mislead ‘yung investigation,” he continued. Abrahano emphasized that the police does not support…

A FORMER policeman was shot dead when he reportedly decided to shoot it out with police operatives during a buy-bust operation on July 25 along Tambac-Melag in Barangay Pantal, Dagupan City. P/Superintendent Christopher Abrahano, city police chief, identified the fatality as Vicente Moulic alias Enting, 57, from Barangay Maasin, Mangaldan,…

A NINETEEN-year old security guard of a mall in Lingayen town is now facing a case of frustrated homicide and illegal possession of firearm and ammunitions after he accidentally shot and wounded a bagger of a supermarket inside the mall. P/Superintendent Jackson Seguin, Chief of Police in Lingayen, identified the…

CASES OF MISTAKEN IDENTITIES? SINCE two young persons were killed by still unidentified suspects on the same day July 19, questions about the circumstances surround their deaths continue to baffle the police, the victims’ families and communities. Roman Clifford Manaois, 20, of Barangay Carael, Dagupan City and companion Zaldy Abalos…

THE Pangasinan Police Provincial Office recently formed an investigation body to further pursue the investigation of the death of Rowena Tiamson, graduating college student who was obviously executed and dumped in Manaoag by still unidentified suspects. Acting-Provincial Director P/Sr. Supt. Ronald Lee, assigned P/Supt. Jackie Candelario, the present Deputy Director…

AGENTS of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency’s Region 1 office in Pangasinan and the Calasiao Police Station arrested Dennis Gavino, a.k.a. ‘Kabayan’ of Barangay San Miguel, Calasiao, after he was found in possession of 9 grams of Shabu and several drug paraphernalia at his residence after serving the search warrant issued by the court in Dagupan City. Also found in…

VIGILANTES’ TARGETS LINGAYEN—Four drug personalities, all listed as top drug personalities in various towns were gunned down by suspected vigilantes in separate incidents on July 18 and 19 in four areas in the province. In San Carlos City, Ricky Poquiz, 36, businessman, resident of Barangay Tandoc, San Carlos City and listed as fourth top drug personality in the city, was…

TULAK AKO WAG TULARAN LINGAYEN—Two unidentified women, believed to be drug personalities, were found dead separately in Binalonan and Manaoag towns on July 19 Report from the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office here said one body, with gunshot wounds on her back waist and left leg, was found along the provincial…

LINGAYEN – Intensify police operations against illegal drug operations in the province. This was the order of the day issued by P/Sr. Supt. Ronald Oliver Lee, the new officer-in-charge at the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office in his first command conference for all chiefs of police in the province. Lee, who…