MAPANDAN—The deputy police chief here who is the namesake of the President’s father, faces an attempted murder charge and a separate administrative charge for shooting and wounding a subordinate inside their headquarters. A case of attempted murder against PInsp. Benigno Aquino will be filed on Monday after he shot and…
LINGAYEN — Combined police elements captured one of the most wanted persons in the country in Barangay Pias, Mapandan town Thursday. Jose Tamayo Velasco, who has a P140,000 reward for his capture, was nabbed, based on a warrant of arrest issued by Judge Luis Fontanilla of the Regional Trial Court…
SAN CARLOS CITY — A puto maker who held up a female pawnshop appraiser and carted away P50,000 cash tried to make a run for it but failed. After a brief chase, fifty-year-old Roque Navarro, a resident of Barangay Quezon, was collared and arrested by a police patrolman who responded…
NON-STOP DELIVERIES OF DYNAMITED FISH DAGUPAN CITY—Someone is facilitating the regular delivery of dynamited fish to the city despite efforts of city hall to stop it. This became evident after two truckloads of dynamited fish were again intercepted June 28 early morning. The recent seizure prompted Mayor Belen T. Fernandez…
THE Municipal Planning and Development Officer of San Jacinto town was stabbed dead Thursday morning in Dagupan after buying medicine from a drug store along A.B. Fernandez Ave., Dagupan City. The fatality was identified as Virgilio de Guzman, 62, married, resident of Barangay Capaoay this town who sustained multiple stab wounds from a…
DAGUPAN CITY—Authorities have arrested the suspected gunman responsible for shooting the barangay captain of Tapuac. Twenty-three-year-old Aljon Marcelino Ruisan, a resident of the city’s Barangay 2 and 3, was apprehended after informants led authorities to his whereabouts following the release of a computerized artist illustration based from the description of…
FOR OVERPRICED COMPUTER THE Sandiganbayan has convicted former San Manuel Mayor Salvador Perez for violating Section 3(e) of Republic Act No. 3019, or the Anti-Graft Corrupt Practices Act, for the procurement of an overpriced computer unit in 1998. Ombudsman prosecutors established during trial that no public bidding was conducted for…
DESPITE the immediate release of a computerized artist illustration of the suspect in the shooting of a barangay chairman in Dagupan City last June 13, the suspected gunman and another person of interest in the case remain at-large. The illustration — describing a thin man with dark complexion, 5’6” to…
SAN FABIAN—Finally after ten years, a man charged for numerous rape cases and listed as the 8th most wanted person in the province was nabbed by the police early morning of June 15, 2014 at his residence in Barangay Poblacion in this town. Joint elements of the Pangasinan Provincial Police…
TAYUG–A man who was convicted for the slaying of a Japanese national here sometime in 2009 and sentenced to reclusion perpetua is now a free man after the 11th division of the Court of Appeals reversed the decision of the Regional Trial Court (RTC) of Tayug dated May 30, 2012. Ordered…
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