DAGUPAN’S Balay Silangan, a reformation center for confessed drug offenders who want to seek a new life without drugs, opened on Friday in a ceremony led by Mayor Belen Fernandez, Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency Regional Director Joel Plaza, and P/Lt. Colonel Brendon Palisoc, city police chief. Located on a refurbished…
By Ahikam Pasion Wife dies in in road mishap A 52-year-old woman died, while her 55-year-old husband is still under medical care after they were run over by an overtaking SUV in Barangay Caranglaan, Mabini town. Victims Marieneddie and Samuel Nevado, both residents of Barangay Don Matias in Burgos town,…
THE Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) recently declared 16 barangays in Manaoag as ‘drug-cleared’. Those cleared barangays include Lipit Sur, Sapang, Calaocan, Bucao, Bisal, Tebuel, Licso, Inamotan, Matulong, Parian, San Ramon, and Pantal. Eight more barangays in town are being processed to be declared drug-cleared. Manaoag Mayor Jeremy Agerico Rosario…
By Ahikam Pasion Man dies after resto mauling A 30-year-old man died from the mauling by two individuals in a restobar in Barangay Palaris, San Carlos City. A recovered CCTV footage of the crime scene showed victim Samuel de Vera, a resident of Barangay Bolosan, was standing alone at the…
THE Sangguniang Bayan of Mangaldan and the town police station asked the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO) to assign additional policemen to the town, after two separate killings of barangay officials over a sixty-day period. The SB recently passed its Resolution No. 2024-002, authored by Councilor Aldrin Soriano, urging P/…
ONE of the four victims of a firecracker explosion inside a compound on Claveria Road in Barangay Malued on Christmas Day died while already recuperating in their house. Roan Velasco, 44, of Barangay Caranglaan, Dagupan City died on January 2, a day after he was discharged from the Region 1…
A 41-year-old caregiver was arrested in a buy-bust operation by the operatives from the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO) Drug Enforcement Unit, and elements of Dagupan City PNP on Tuesday, January 09, in Barangay Bonuan Binloc, Dagupan City. Authorities identified the suspect as Kate Sapinit, a resident of Pasay City…
AN auto mechanic committed suicide by burning himself to death at the Virgin’s Well in Manaoag on January 4. Luisito Buenaventura, 55, and resident of Barangay Botao, Sta. Barbara, was found dead by the parking boy/caretaker named Leonardo Mosada. Based on Mosada’s statement, he noticed a motorcycle parked unattended at…
ANOTHER barangay official in Mangaldan town was shot dead last week. Romeo ‘Pudong’ del Campo, 44, the number one kagawad of Barangay Guilig was shot dead while in the company of his family onboard the family car. Investigation by the Mangaldan PNP reveals Del Campo was with his live-in partner…
TWELVE wanted persons were apprehended by operatives of the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO) in three separate operations over a four-day period to sustain the campaign against criminality during the holidays. Two wanted men were arrested in the town of Malasiqui, while one wanted person was apprehended in each of…
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