SIX most wanted persons in Pangasinan and Baguio City were arrested in their respective homes during the current General Community Quarantine (GCQ). According to the Police Regional Office 1 (PRO 1), among those arrested was Dennis Murao, 33, a resident of Barangay Bila in Sison town, the No. 13 ‘most wanted’…

BELIEVE it when the government says the ECQ brought the crime rate down. Jenie Dizon, a resident of Pasig City, deemed as the second most wanted person in Metro Manila, was arrested by police joint elements in Brgy. Sta. Maria in Mapandan. The lockdown in many towns during the ECQ…

A high value target was arrested by operatives of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in Rosales town during a drug buy-bust operation last May 29, Friday afternoon. The suspect, Marvin Placido, was arrested in Barangay Carmen East, this town. Retchie Camacho, PDEA team leader, said the operatives recovered 11…

A family man suspected to have been affected by the quarantine killed his members of his family before killing himself in their house in Barangay Banuar in Laoac town with the same chopping knife he used to kill his victims. P/Captain Mark Taminaya, Laoac police chief said Nestor Untalan killed…

THE third most wanted criminal of Manila Police District (MPD) was killed in Dagupan City after resisting arrest last Tuesday, May 26. The suspect Dante Alvear, 34 years old, a resident of Tondo, Manila, was killed in a shootout in his rented house in Longos, Barangay Bonuan Boquig, after he…

TWO suspected drug pushers were arrested by the police in Barangay Anonas in Urdaneta City on May 26 in a buy-bust operation. Arrested were Edwin Serafica, 47, a businessman of Urdaneta, and Wilson Flores, 46, a charcoal vendor from Sta. Maria town. Seized from them were two heat-sealed plastic sachets of…

LESSER rape cases have been reported since the start of the Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) in Pangasinan. Data shared by P/Lt. Rose Reata, chief of the Women and Children’s Protection Desk at the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office, showed that during the two-month period of the lockdown from March 15- May…

A jeepney driver who was worried about his family’s upkeep because of the lockdown was found hanging dead on May 18 in Barangay San Aurelio 1st, Balungao. Modesto Casil, 63, was found by his son and namesake Modesto Jr, 39, hanging on an ipil-ipil tree with an electrical wire tied…

A barangay kapitan of Calasiao and 15 other persons are facing charges for various violations of the protocol established for the Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) for attending a birthday party. Calasiao Police Chief, P/Lt. Col. Joseph Fajardo said Severino Tuazon of Barangay Poblacion East and others who attended a birthday…

EVEN during the General Community Quarantine, there has been no let-up in the campaign of the Dagupan Police against illegal drugs. Recently arrested on Arellano Street in Barangay Pantal at about 2:30 p.m. on May 20 in a buy-bust operation was Jesus Canave, alias “Jess”, 57, a store vendor, who sold one sachet of suspected…