SAN FABIAN—A businessman reported to the police that he was robbed at gunpoint by two men riding in tandem on a motorcycle along the national road in Barangay Longos Proper here at about 3:00 p.m. of August 21. The victim was identified as Arsenio Biasura, 53, of Barangay Angio, San…

NATIVIDAD–A suspected drug pusher was arrested by the police in buy-bust operation in Barangay Calapugan here at about 1:40 p.m. of August 21. The suspect was identified as Aurelio Pagal, 49, who sold one small sachet believed to be containing shabu to an operative who acted as poseur buyer.

LINGAYEN—A woman, who was six-months pregnant, was electrocuted to death while crossing a fishpond where she accidentally touched a low-lying live wire of the Central Pangasinan Electric Cooperative (Cenpelco) attached to a house in Sitio Toktok, Barangay Namolan here last August 21.

MAPANDAN–Police seized ammunition for different types of firearms and drug paraphernalia when they raided a house in Barangay Pias here in the morning of August 14. However, the owner of the house and seized items, identified as Jose Sison, was able to elude arrest and is now the object of…

BASISTA– A suspected drug pusher was arrested by the police on August 11 following a raid in his house in Barangay Osmena. The raid, in coordination with the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA), was conducted by the Basista Police under the supervision of Senior Inspector Junmar Gonzales at the house…

BANI–Two persons on board a motorcycle were shot dead by hitmen riding-in-tandem on another motorcycle while traversing along Ranao Road in Poblacion here at about 4:02 p.m. on August 7. The victims, who sustained gun shot wounds in different parts of their bodies, were identified as Reynaldo de la Cruz,…

UMINGAN– The bodies of two unidentified male persons believed to be “salvage” victims from Nueva Ecija were found in an isolated part of the national road in Barangay Carayungan Sur here on August 7 at about 5:30 a.m. The two victims were found on the road shoulder and the police…

URDANETA CITY—A city councilor here has been temporarily released after posting bail for a murder case stemming from a shooting incident that killed a retired US Marine soldier in a bistro joint in Barangay San Vicente here. Superintendent Paquito Navarrete, city police chief, said Councilor Mark Joseph Andrada, who is…

ALAMINOS CITY—A passenger of a jeepney bound for Burgos was killed and another person hurt when the vehicle was sideswiped by a speeding Mitsubishi L300 closed van coming from the opposite direction in Barangay Amandiego here at about 2:50 p.m. of July 31. The fatality was identified as Mario Buenaflor,…

URDANETA CITY—One more person fell in an anti-illegal drug operation conducted by the police in Barangay Bayaoas here on August 1. The suspect was identified as Bardelito Estantino from whom lawmen seized three-heat sealed plastic sachets containing crystalline granules known as shabu, aluminum foil, one scissors, and a wallet containing…