SISON – The leader of the notorious ‘Agila’ gun-for-hire group operating in Eastern Pangasinan, was killed after resisting arrest here. Sison chief of police, P/Major Resty Ventenilla, said the suspect, Fernando “Agila” Patubo, was shot dead after he was cornered by authorities in his hideout trying to escape as police…

AGUILAR – A woman here killed herself after an argument with her live-in partner. P/Captain Rommel Sembrano, Aguilar chief of police, said that the victim, Ladylyn Abalos, a resident of Baranga Bocacliw, killed herself by drinking oxalic acid. The victim’s partner, Mardi Apostol, reportedly came home drunk and that led…

A 21-year-old man has drowned after jumping into a farm irrigation channel in Barangay D’Alarcio, Laoac to test the water level. Victim Christian Casipit, a resident of Maasin, Mangaldan, was with his friends when they decided to take a bath in the said farm irrigation project. One of the victim’s…

URDANETA – A woman died in a three-vehicle collision here. The Urdaneta Police identified the victim as Maria Teresa Corpuz, 52 years old, a resident of Barangay Alibeng in Sison, a tricycle passenger. According to the initial police investigation, the tricycle that Corpuz was riding. was crossing the road when…

A BARANGAY chairman in Urbiztondo town was arrested for illegal possession of firearms after authorities raided his residence in Barangay Dalanguiring on the strength of a search warrant. The combined elements of the Provincial Intelligence Branch, Provincial Investigation and Management Branch, Provincial Mobile Force Company and Urbiztondo Police raided the…

A businessman in AB Fernandez East, Pantal District in the city of Dagupan was arrested for the possession of illegal firearms on October 24. P/ Colonel Redrico Maranan, provincial director, said Jeffrey Sua y Villamil, 43, a businessman and a resident of the area, was arrested after the combined forces…

BODIES of two friends were found floating lifeless in Tanap River in Barangay Bonuan Gueset last Tuesday in what appeared to be an agreement to commit suicide. The first body, later identified as Jerry Soriano alias ‘Trexia’, a resident of Binmaley town, was found floating on the river at 11…

TWO children were found dead, their bodies burnt, inside their shanty that was razed by fire. According to P/Major Francisco Castillo, San Fabian police chief, the siblings John Lennon Salvaterra and Maria Santina Avillanosa, aged five and one respectively, were sleeping in their shanty in Barangay Tocok when fire broke…

TWO shanties made of light materials were razed to the ground and a senior citizen died in a fire that broke at dawn Thursday at Barangay Mayombo in Dagupan City. Fire arson investigator Andrew Pasana of the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) Dagupan City Station, said the incident was reported…

A 27-year old man in Dagupan City was arrested by the National Bureau of Investigation – Dagupan District Office (NBI-DADO), and charged for raping his live-in partner’s minor daughter. Lawyer Rizaldy Jaymalin, NBI-DADO chief in an interview Tuesday, said that the suspect ‘Jerick’ (real name withheld), was arrested through an…