MANGATAREM—A 17-year old boy drowned while swimming with friends in a dam in Barangay Pogon Aniat here at about 2:40 p.m. of July 26. The fatality was identified as Arvin Petaca, a first year high school student, who was reportedly intoxicated with alcohol when he went into the water.

URBIZTONDO–A cache of firearms and ammunition was seized by lawmen when they raided the house and poultry farm of Mayor Ernesto Balolong early Wednesday, armed with two search warrants issued by Regional Trial Court Executive Judge Marino de la Cruz of Branch 22 in Manila. However, the raiders led by Supt….

BINALONAN–An 84-year-old widow from Barangay Sta. Maria here was killed by still unidentified robbers who barged inside her house on the night of July 17. Cirila de Leon was found dead by neighbors inside her house at about 1:30 p.m. the next day Police probers theorized that the robbers gained entrance into…

MANGALDAN–Unidentified cattle rustlers butchered a cattle they had stolen from  its pasture area owned by one Efren Aguilar of Barangay Salaan last July 18. The carcass of the stolen animal was found by one Rommel Legazpi, a farm caretaker, at around 6:00 a.m. of July 18 in Barangay Macayug, on a grassy portion adjacent…

DAGUPAN CITY—An ex-convict was arrested by anti-drug operatives of the Dagupan Police during a buy-bust operation in Sitio Bliss, Barangay Bonuan Binloc. Arthuro Centeno, 40, sold one heat-sealed transparent plastic sachet of shabu to a policeman disguised as a buyer and was promptly arrested after receiving a marked money of…

STO. TOMAS—A trailer truck with a container van as its backload was cornered in Alcala town minutes after it rammed a motorized tricycle, injuring the latter’s driver at 10:45 p.m. of July 11 along the Carmen, Bayambang road here. Larry Rodriguez, 41, of Real, Quezon, driver of the Fuso trailer truck, however, denied his involvement in…

DAGUPANCITY–A suspected buyer of shabu was caught red-handed while engaged in a transaction in Sitio Silungan, Barangay Bonuan Binloc at about 1:45 p.m. of July 11. The seller, however, managed to escape. The suspect, Dennis Figueroa, 25, of Malta Village in Dagupan, had in his possession two sachets of shabu containing…

LA UNION–Joint elements of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency Regional Office 1 (PDEA RO1) and the San Fernando City Police Station arrested two shabu dealers from Dagupan in a buy-bust operations on July 4. Taken into custody and charged for violation of Republic Act 9165 were Hasim Barodi and Lenbert…

MANGALDAN–The Mangaldan Police, in coordination with the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Region 1, arrested one Dionisio Malbog, 32, in a buy-buster operation in the Poblacion here on July 2. Malbog was arrested after handing one plastic sachet of shabu to an intelligence operative who posed as a buyer using…

MALASIQUI–A woman riding behind the driver of a motorcycle died when their vehicle crashed at the roadside while overtaking another vehicle along the highway in Barangay Calbeg here on July 1. Brendalyn Ferrer, 39,  and the driver of the motorcycle, Judly Bayangat, 21, were rushed to the Malasiqui  Municipal Hospital…