MANGALDAN—A series of security awareness dialogue with banks and other financial institutions was recently launched to help them understand how they can protect themselves against criminal elements. The municipal government were in coordination with the Mangaldan Police Station (MPS) last week, P/Supt. Jackie Candelario, chief of MPS said the dialogue discusses…

LINGAYEN— One of the two prisoners that bolted the Pangasinan Provincial Jail last Monday was recaptured in San Carlos City while the other managed to elude the arresting officers. Rogelio Garcia, 41, resident of Poblacion, Lagangilang, Abra facing illegal sale of firearms and ammunition, was captured in San Carlos City…

LINGAYEN—Wives, mothers, daughters and sisters, beware. Rape cases in Pangasinan have increased by 48 percent this year. This was the terse reply of P/Sr. Supt. Belli Tamayo, the new officer-in-charge police provincial director to the query of Board Member Alfonso Bince Jr.’ during last Monday’s Question Hour of the Sanggunian…

HEALING MASS RACKET MANGALDAN—Leave it to criminal minds to go to any extent just to earn quick bucks. A new racket uncovered is the holding of “healing masses.” The Mangaldan police station (MPS) warned the public against a 65- year old man disguised as bishop, holding ‘healing masses’ in different…

A FARMER was shot dead in the morning of May 18 in Barangay Lepa, Malasiqui during an altercation between his group and another. The fatality was Gil Tulagan, 55, who was shot on the right side of his body and was rushed to the Malasiqui Municipal Health Hospital where he…

CHARGED IN FIVE RAPE CASES ALAMINOS CITY—The city’s second most wanted person charged with five rape cases was finally arrested Sunday afternoon in Barangay Poblacion, Masinloc, Zambales. P/Superintendent Domingo Soriano, city police chief, said the arrest of Conrado Legaspi, 51, married, fish vendor and resident of Barangay Pandan, Alaminos City,…

URDANETA CITY– A 71-year-old German national committed suicide by hanging himself inside the family residence in Greenville Subdivision, Barangay San Vicente here on May 3 at about 11:20 a.m. Found dead was Manfred Heyne who was found by his wife Lolita Suyat-Heyne hanging at the concrete fence at the southeast side…

LINGAYEN—Two persons committing suicide in separate towns in this province on May 6. In Barangay Labney, San Jacinto town, found dead was Robert Serote, 46, construction worker with nylon cord tied around his neck inside a comfort room.

WHILE the Dagupan’s famed “Bangusan Street Party” was peaking at 11:30 p.m. on April 30, two men were arrested in a house on Jose R. de Venecia Expressway Extension in Barangay Lucao near the event site for possessing an assault rifle, fragmentation grenade, several magazines and ammunition. Arrested by joint police elements led…

STA. MARIA—A pastor drowned when he attempted to cross the Agno River on foot in Barangay Sta. Rosa here before noon on April 17. The fatality was identified as Leovigildo Alvaro, 55, married, pastor of Christ New Creation Fellowship and a resident of Barangay Macalong, Asingan town this province. Police report said that…