BAYAMBANG—A former barangay captain here was shot dead at around 2:40 a.m. Sunday (Jan. 11) by unidentified hitmen riding in tandem (HRIT) along Barangay Buayaen  this town while the victim was on his way home from a cockpit arena on board his motorcycle. The fatality, Enrique Roldan, 56, married, resident of of…

LINGAYEN–A detainee who escaped from the municipal jail in Bani town was captured in Imus, Cavite where he went into hiding after his escape. The escapee was identified as Layman Ortegas of Poblacion, Bani who was charged for the crime of robbery before the Regional Trial Court, Branch 55 in…

SAN FABIAN—Three men, one of whom is the boyfriend of the victim’s sister, are facing rape charges filed by the police at the Prosecutor’s Office for allegedly sexually abusing the victim on January 2. P/Superintendent Ferdinand de Asis, chief of the Police Community Relations at the police provincial office, said…

LINGAYEN—The police were not taking chances with the boxes of banned firecrackers seized during raids of stalls of vendors in the province. The seized firecrackers were destroyed by hosing them with water and buried them on December 31, 2014. The Pangasinan Provincial Police Office (PPPO) led by P/Senior Superintendent Reynaldo…

SAN FABIAN—Another teenager drowned at a beach here on December 29, the third since the Christmas holidays. The fatality was Ed Paul Cemitara, 14, student and resident of 7043 Avocado St., Makati City while swimming at the seawater in Barangay Nibaliw West here at around 3:00 p.m. The victim was retrieved…

UMINGAN—It was a bloody Christmas day for one family in this town. In the morning of December 25, Lorenzo Estacio, a resident of Barangay Barat of the town, reported to the police that his brother Mauro was hacked to death by their elder brother Jaime, 51 years old. Lorenzo Estacio from Barangy Barat, Umingan, Pangasinan reported that his…

MOSTLY DRUG OFFENDERS LINGAYEN—Majority of the inmates detained at the Pangasinan Provincial Jail (PPJ) are charged for illegal-drug related cases, but unlike the situation at the New Bilibid in Muntinlupa, there are no “very important persons” (VIPs) or special treatment of any kind provided an inmate. This was the assurance…

SOME 40 pieces of Good Bye World, 10 pieces of Crying Cow and 100 pieces of Whistle Bomb, considered as illegal firecrackers, were confiscated by the Dagupan City Police Station (DCPS) in a checkpoint on Sunday (December 21). P/Supt. Christopher Abrahano, chief of DCPS said the police officers conducting checkpoint in barangay…

NAVARRO SLAY TRY THE criminal complaint against Rolando Lim Jr, the lone suspect accused in the attempted slaying of broadcaster Orly Navarro of radio station DWIZ stays after the Office of the City Prosecutor dismissed the submitted recantation of two witnesses. In his five-page resolution dated December 3, 2014, City Prosecutor Joven…

THE lone suspect in the in the near slay case of radioman Orly Navarro succumbed to cardiac arrest and died last December 14, at the age of 46. Rolando A. Lim, Jr., resident of Barangay Pantal, was having a conversation with friends when he complained of back pains and suddenly…