THE Police Provincial Office (PPO) carried out 164 successful operations against illegal drugs in the first five months of the year that resulted in the arrest of 209 pushers and users. Of the total number of arrested suspects, most of whom were collared in the cities of Dagupan and Urdaneta,…
LINGAYEN–The Police Provincial Office (PPO) has organized “race trackers” in each of the six districts to go after hitmen-riding-in-tandem (HRIT), investigate old cases and file charges against the perpetrators in court. This strategy was bared by P/Sr. Supt. Sterling Raymund Blanco, PPO officer-in-charge, noting the series of shooting incidents perpetrated by…
A KOREAN national who was a member of the Young Men Christian Association Raon Atti Youth Program was found dead inside his room in an inn in Dagupan City Tuesday morning. The body of 48-year old Moon Hong Bin of Anyang, South Korea was discovered by the inn’s receptionist. He…
AGENTS of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) caught on Wednesday a notorious gun-for-hire allegedly being coddled by a town mayor in Pangasinan at his home in Barangay Pisuac, Urbiztondo. P/Sr. Supt. Francisco Esguerra, CIDG regional chief, identified the suspect as Johany Vedaña alias “Bossing”, 32, who was arrested based…
AN unsuspecting retired policeman was stabbed to death while talking to a group in his neighbor’s house Tuesday night in Barangay Bolosan, Dagupan City. Dead was Melanio Edades, 65, married while the suspect was identified by witnesses as Reynante Peralta, 31, both residents of said place.
SOME people are smarter than others, while more are simply gullible than others. The latter are easy preys of text scammers so the Department of Trade and Industry again warned of more of text messages during this time when people are at their wits’ end looking for other means to…
DAGUPAN City Police Station (DCPS) operatives arrested on Friday (May 16, 2014) a suspected gunrunner and two allegedly loose firearms. According to Police Superintendent Christopher Abrahano, chief of police, the suspect was identified as Eric Tajeda, 28 years old, married, a pedicab driver, and a resident of Eastern Blue Beach, Bonuan Gueset,…
ASINGAN—A man was arrested for allegedly burning the pavilion of the rest house of former Gov. Rafael Colet Thursdayafternoon in Barangay Ariston West here. Caretakers of the house who were cleaning the compound said that they saw Eugen Panio, 36, resident of the barangay enter the property by climbing the front…
LINGAYEN–The Pangasinan Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) is strengthening its operations against crimes in the province. Police Chief Inspector Lucrecio Lotho Rodrigueza, the new CIDG head who assumed the post last month, told the media last week that despite their limited manpower with only four personnel at the headquarters…
THE number of complaints against police personnel in Pangasinan during the first quarter of 2014 declined compared to last years’ data for the same period, according to the National Police Commission (Napolcom). Lawyer Monday Samson, Napolcom provincial director, said the decrease can be attributed to the regular re-orientation of…
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