ROSALES—Five heat-sealed transparent sachet believed containing shabu were seized by in a raid at a house in Barangay Zone 4, Poblacion at  about 6:00 a.m. of November 14. The team, composed of policemen from the Rosales Police Station, Police  Public Safety Company based in Tayug, Provincial Investigation Branch and the…

STA MARIA—An incumbent municipal councilor of this town, Gilberto Cantoria, has yet to be arrested by authorities after shooting a 66-year old retired colonel of the Philippine Marines last November 3 over a suspected old grudge. The victim, Arnold Blanco, was shot by Cantoria at about 5:15 in the afternoon…

STO. TOMAS—The police here have arrested and filed charges against two suspects who were found in possession of fake P1,000 and P100 bills, some of which they used to buy cigarettes in a sari-sari store. Police Senior Inspector Arnold Soriano, police chief here, said the case for illegal possession and…

URBIZTONDO—A barangay kagawad, a re-electionist candidate, was shot dead while trying to pacify his neighbors who were beginning to create trouble Tuesday afternoon in Barangay Sawat here. Victim Eduardo Balocating, 39, succumbed to a gunshot wound in his chest from a caliber .45 allegedly fired by suspect Ernesto Tapiador, 50. He…

MALASIQUI— Finally, a case for vote-buying was filed in Malasiqui. The election law offender was charged for influencing voters not with P100 or P1,000 bills but with balut. Charged for violating the Commission on Elections (Comelec) resolution was Norma Guiling, 46, a vendor. Her alleged vote-buying scheme for a candidate…

SUAL—There is now a new variation of the “flying voter.” The impostors are coming. This scheme was discovered when a man who claimed to be a registered voter in Barangay Baybay turned out to be an impostor. It took an alert poll watcher to stop him. The suspect, Salvador Badoria, entered the…

CALASIAO–It appeared to be an election-related shooting incident but the police have since determined that it was due to unsettled conflicts between the families of the suspect and the barangay kapitan who was seriously wounded. P/Sr. Supt. Supt. Marlou Chan, police provincial director, said that intense family feud between the families…

A suspected drug den maintainer and a cohort were arrested by joint elements of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in the region and and the Calasiao Police Station in an anti-drug operation in Pangasinan on October 17, 2013. Arrested were Samson Z. Parayno, alias Bong, 52, married, suspected drug…

CALASIAO—The attempted zero fatality objective of the local PNP command for the duration of the campaign period is now but a dream. After attending the peace covenant signing for candidates in the Oct. 28 barangay election, an unopposed barangay captain re-electionist was wounded while one of his aides was killed in front…

CALASIAO–A district supervisor of the Department of Education (DepEd) and her husband were killed last October 14 by armed men riding in tandem, while an associate was injured by a shot on the leg. The victims were identified as Dr. Lilita Rancudo, 60, of DepEd Calasiao II and Rolando Rancudo,…