FOUR “grinches” who tried to steal the Christmas spirit in Dagupan by destroying the Christmas lights and decorations installed at the Quintos Bridge along A.B. Fernandez Avenue were arrested before dawn Thursday. Arrested were Rex Malicdem, Jom Ferrer, Cyrus Gabis and Marthie Cabatbat, all residents of neighboring Calasiao town, according…

DAGUPAN CITY–A widow from Sitio Aling in Barangay Pantal here was caught by the police for drug pushing in a buy-bust operation on December 10. The suspect, Natalia Ortiz, 50, was arrested when she handed one plastic sachet of shabu in exchange for P500 marked money to a police officer…

VILLASIS—The driver of a motorized motorcycle was killed while his passenger was injured when they collided head-on with Dagupan Bus along the national highway in Barangay Bacag here at 11:45  p.m. on December 11. The tricycle driver identified as Romulo Orial Jr., 33, of Barangay Tombod, Villasis, sustained severe injuries in…

BINMALEY–Two men are facing a swindling case before the Office of the Provincial Prosecutor in Lingayen for pulling a con act on the parents of a seaman based here. Charged are Richard Belocura, resident of 20A Rizal Ave., Extension, Cebu City and Ignacio Manuel, employee of Friendly Maritime Services Inc.,…

AN owner of a foreign currency exchange shop lost US$6,250, worth about P271,000, last December 5 to an unidentified suspect who posed as a customer. The victim, Michael Edades, 33, owner of Joshua Money Changer Shop located along A.B. Fernandez West in Dagupan City, reported that he made the transaction over…

A SUSPECTED illegal drug pusher was killed after engaging law enforces in a shoot-out during a buy-bust operation conducted in Poblacion West, Asingan on November 27. His cohort who was unable to resist was arrested. Killed was suspect Elias Sultan, alias Kadi, while Benito Monses was arrested and will be…

BARANGAY ELECTION GUN BAN LINGAYEN—The Pangasinan Police Office (PPO) confiscated 40 firearms and 20 bladed weapons across the province during the implementation of the nationwide gun ban from September 28 to November 12 in line with the barangay election period. The office of Senior Supt. Marlou Chan, provincial police director,…

LINGAYEN—A man believed to be suffering from depression drowned himself and his two sons in the creek beneath the San Jose Bridge in this town late morning of November 10, 2013. Reports from authorities say that Efren Sison, 43, resident of Barangay Maniboc here, first threw his two sons —…

URDANETA CITY–A man posing as an employee of the Professional Regulations Commission (PRC) was arrested in an entrapment operation conducted by the local police in the afternoon of November 13 in Poblacion here. The entrapment of the suspect, identified as Ramon Mencias who was renting at Bizkeg Apartment in Calle…

SAN CARLOS CITY—Lawmen seized an ammunition for a 12-gauge shotgun and aluminum foil with suspected shabu in a raid at 6:05 a.m. of November 14 at a house of a suspected drug pusher in Barangay Balite Sur here. The house of Alex Torio, a 34-year old farmer, was raided and…