MAPANDAN—The police reported the arrest of a newspaperman for the crime of libel in Barangay Aserdan here at 10:00 a.m. of June 20. Arrested by virtue of a warrant of arrest issued by Regional Trial Court Judge Elizabeth Bernal of Branch 47 in Urdaneta City was Jaime Aquino.

FOLLOWING the brutal murder of a sophomore student of the Dagupan City National High School (DCNHS) on June 1, a campus security seminar will be held in the city on June 23 to orient school teachers, students, parents and the community on safety measures to prevent crimes. As this developed,…

FOUR illegal drug dealers were arrested by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency Regional Office 1 (PDEA RO1) in two separate operations in the province last June 7 and 8. Bothers Antonio and Joni Enriquez were collared in a buy-bust operation in a makeshift hut in front of their residence at…

URDANETA CITY–A pawnshop on Aruego Street in Poblacion here lost some P500,000 worth of assorted jewelry and cash from unidentified robbers who bore a whole under the establishment connected  to an adjacent drainage canal. The break-in at the FMC Pawnshop is suspected to have happened on the night or early…

TAYUG–A member of the Philippine Army from Barangay Evangelista here was arrested by the Provincial Public Safety Mobile Company (PPSMC) of the police for illegal possession of a prohibited drug. Michael Del Rosario, 33, was arrested while the police, led by Inspector Kurt Toyokan, was implementing Operation Bakal.

SAN CARLOS CITY–The police led by Inspector Resty Ventinilla assisted a woman in rescuing her five-year old son who was detained by a family when she failed to pay her debt of P5,000. Rescued from the house of one Nely Bugayong was John Reyna Hurbulado who was being involuntarily held there…

A DRUG dealer based in Ilocos Norte and operating in nearby provinces, including Pangasinan has been caught by joint police forces on June 6 in a buy-bust operation at his home, which was serving as an illegal drug den. Charlie Cainglit, along with his son Anacleto Cainglit, were nabbed by…

INFANTA–An American citizen was hacked to death outside his home in Barangay Maya here at 6:45 a.m. on June 5. The fatality was identified as Crisostomo Marmelo,  82, who sustained multiple hack wounds in the head and different parts of his body  and died on the spot.

DAGUPAN CITY–A resident of Barangay Bonuan Binloc here was arrested by joint police elements in a buy-bust operation in front of a convenient store in Barangay Lucao at about 1:50 of June 5. Suspect Danilo Alfredo de la Cruz, 47, was arrested by elements of the Provincial Intelligence Branch, Provincial…

BUGALLON–A cache of firearms and ammunition was seized in a raid by joint elements of the police in the house of one of two brothers who are suspects in a shooting incident in this town sometime in March. Seized from the residence of Alejandro Margarijo, alias “Andrew”, in Barangay Quibaol, Lingayen…