STO. TOMAS—A suspected drug pusher who reportedly sells marijuana and shabu to students was killed in a shootout with lawmen Thursday afternoon in Barangay San Jose here. Senior Inspector Allan Emerson Dauz, officer-in-charge police chief here, identified the suspect as Regino Tugade, 28, single, tricycle driver and a resident of…

LINGAYEN–The police are still facing a blank wall in the investigation of the hijacking of an oil tanker truck loaded with premium and regular gasoline, and diesel crude oil while en route to San Manuel town from Manila at about 3:00 a.m. of September 21. The truck driver, John Harold…

BINALONAN–A 21-year old student from St. Louis College in San Fernando City, who was kidnapped by unidentified persons on board a black van in San Fernando Thursday afternoon, escaped from his abductors and was rescued by the police here at 12:30 a.m. on September 28. Police identified the victim as…

LINGAYEN—A probe team has been sent by the Provincial Health Office (PHO) to Bolinao to investigate the cause of death of a one and a half-month baby boy who allegedly died after having been vaccinated by a midwife in a Rural Health Unit (RHU). Dr. Anna Ma. Teresa de Guzman,…

IT WAS definitely one situation that two government employees did not expect after playing Good Samaritan. Two administrative aides of the Municipal Election Office of Calasiao town were arrested by the police for illegal possession of firearms shortly after bringing a victim of a vehicular accident at the Specialist Group…

DAGUPAN CITY—Two sachets containing suspected shabu were confiscated from two persons who were arrested at a police checkpoint conducted by the police along the national highway in Barangay Bonuan Gueset here Thursday. Supt. Romeo Caramat, city police chief, identified the suspects as Valentin Castro, 40, a fish vendor, and Andrew…

SAN CARLOSCITY—The police has filed obstruction of justice and car theft cases against the mother of one of the four detainees who escaped from the detention cell of the police station here. The escapee used a handsaw that his mother secretly gave him to cut the iron grill of their…

TAYUG–An announcer of the government station Radyo ng Bayan based in this town was brutally killed Wednesday night in Barangay Trenchera here. The body of Rizalino Salinas, 46, was found Thursday morning in a rice field at the back of the Trenchera Elementary School. Before noon of Thursday, the police…

MANGATAREM–A barangay chairman here was arrested by the police following a raid in his house in Barangay Quezon that yielded nine sachets containing shabu and six pieces of aluminum foil with suspected shabu residue. Chief Inspector Fidel Junio of the town police identified the suspect as Ricardo Torres Jr., barangay…

ALCALA—A 78-year old retiree was arrested shortly after a search inside his house yielded two revolvers. Joaquin Calaus, a resident of Barangay Canarvacanan here, was caught with one  Cal. 45, revolver with markings “US ARMY” model 1917, 18 live ammunition for Cal 45, one Cal .22 revolver without a serial number and marked  “SUPER…