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(Eagle News) — Senator Leila de Lima’s former lover and alleged bagman Ronnie Dayan arrived at the Muntinlupa Regional Trial Court, a few seconds after the lady senator has left the area. The grey sport utility vehicle believed to be where Dayan is pulled up at the hall of justice premises only seconds after De Lima’s convoy left for the Philippine National Police Custodial Center, where she will be detained. Dayan was then expected to face Branch 204 Judge Juanita Guerrero, […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Leila de Lima dropped by briefly at the Muntinlupa Regional Trial Court. The white van she is riding pulled up in the hall of justice premises around 11 a.m. De Lima faced Branch 204 Judge Juanita Guerrero for the return of the warrant of arrest the judge issued against the senator. The warrant stems from one of three cases filed against De Lima in connection with her alleged involvement in the illegal drug trade in the […]
(Eagle News) — Liberal partymates of Senator Leila De Lima who are fierce critics of the administration’s anti drug war came to the rescue of the senator, even as she herself is facing a string of drug-related cases. Vice President Leni Robredo called De Lima, who was arrested on Thursday, a victim of “political harassment.” She said this began “soon after she launched an investigation into the issue of extrajudicial killings under the present administration. […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Leila de Lima has just completed booking procedures inside the Philippine National Police (PNP) headquarters in Camp Crame, Quezon City, following her arrest at 8 a.m. Friday at the Senate for drug-related charges. Under the normal booking procedures, it could take a few hours to complete. In De Lima’s case, the whole process took about two hours. As of posting time (10:30 a.m.), she has just left Camp Crame and […]
(Eagle news) — Senator Leila de Lima is set to question the issuance of a warrant of arrest against her at the Supreme Court, one of her lawyers said. In an ambush interview at the Muntinlupa Regional Trial Court on Friday, Atty. Bonifacio Tacardon said the senator’s legal team would “definitely” file the petition questioning the arrest warrant issued against her by Branch 204 Judge Juanita Guerrero on Thursday. Guerrero is hearing one of three cases filed against […]
(Eagle News) — Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II advised Senator Leila de Lima not to be choosy as to where she would be detained, after the senator refused the earlier offer of the Philippine National Police to have her detained at the PNP Detention Center in Camp Crame, Quezon City. Aguirre said it was actually the Muntinlupa regional trial court which would determine where De Lima would be detained. “She does not want to […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Leila de Lima was turned over to the police at the Senate basement past 8 a.m. today, Friday, where she was then brought inside a van for transporting to the Philippine National Police headquarters in Camp Crame Quezon City, where she underwent booking procedures. Earlier, Senate sergeant-at-arms Jose Balajadia Jr., fetched the senator from her office at 8 a.m. in compliance with an earlier agreement with the arresting team from the PNP that the […]
(Eagle News) — While Senator Leile de Lima might be arrested today anytime this Friday morning, her co-accused in the drug-related cases, former lover and bodyguard Ronnie Dayan, was already arrested by the police in Urbiztondo, Pangasinan on Thursday night (February 23). This was according to Urbiztondo police’s Chief Inspector Joshua Maximo who claimed Dayan did not resist arrest and was even expecting it when the police came to his house to get him […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — After the suspension of the illegal drug campaign of the Philippine National Police, the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) planned to post “drug-free stickers” on households who have no drug-dependent members. “Saving our country from being a narco-state is a shared responsibility. The government cannot do it alone,” Sueno said. Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Ismael Sueno said on Tuesday, February 23 that this […]
(Eagle News) — The United States will enforce another law on every illegal immigrant in the United State subject to deportation. According to the Department of Foreign Affairs, there are approximately 3.4 million Filipinos living in the US. In this number, around 310,000 are recorded undocumented.
KALIBO, Aklan, 23 February (PIA6) — The ASEAN meetings held in Boracay Island from February 13-21 were successful and peaceful, according to the Philippine National Police (PNP). In a radio interview, Police Regional Office 6 spokesman Police Sr. Supt. Gilbert Gorero said no negative incidents happened during the meetings. Security in the island had been tightened even before the ASEAN meetings for the safety of delegates with forces deployed at airports, jetty ports, highways, billeting […]
(Eagle News) — The Muntinlupa Regional Trial Court on Thursday issued a warrant of arrest for Senator Leila de Lima, an act her lawyer quickly described as “irregular” and “insulting.” The warrant was issued by Presiding Judge Juanita Guerrero of Branch 204, who is hearing one of three criminal cases filed against the senator in connection with her alleged involvement in the illegal drug trade in the New Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa. Branch 205 Judge Amelia Fabros-Corpuz and Branch 206 Judge […]
