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(Eagle News) — Authorities arrested a 20-year-old woman after she allegedly sold fake vaccination cards to undercover policemen in Bukidnon. According to the Philippine National Police, nabbed in Manolo Fortich town was Sharlyn Abdul, 20. The PNP said she was nabbed in an entrapment operation where she sold two counterfeit cards worth P700 to operatives. The operation was conducted after surveillance of Abdul, who, the police said, had been reported to the authorities by a […]
Patarasa found to be an active member of the PNP’s non-uniformed personnel, PNP says (Eagle News) — A logistics officer of the Abu Sayyaf Group was arrested in Jolo on Friday, July 30, the Philippine National Police said over the weekend. According to the PNP, Masckur Adoh Patarasa alias Makon or Omair Sali Taib was nabbed in an “intelligence-driven police operation” in Barangay Asturias at 7 p.m. The PNP said Patarasa was arrested by virtue […]
(Eagle News)–Over P15 million worth of ecstasy tablets were seized by authorities recently. In a statement, the the Bureau of Customs said two people identified as “Rowena Canapit” and a certain “Michael De Guzman” were also arrested after they attempted to claim the packages containing the illegal drugs in the Quezon City Postal Office. The bureau said the two had presented a authorization letter from the consignee, a certain Glory Joy Buzeta. The packages had […]
(Eagle News)–Former Presidential Commission on Good Government chair Camilo Sabio has been arrested. The National Bureau of Investigation on Sunday, June 7, said Sabio was nabbed in his residence in Quezon City last Friday, June 5, by virtue of a bench warrant of arrest issued by the Fourth Division of the Sandiganbayan, where he was charged with graft. “The Warrant orders the law enforcement agency to ‘Arrest the person of Camilo L. Sabio…. and bring […]
(Eagle News)–An alleged sub-leader of the Abu Sayyaf group was arrested in Quezon City recently. The suspect was identified as Ibrahim Lambog Mullo. Mullo was arrested along Commonwealth Avenue following a tip from a concerned citizen. Seized from him were an unlicensed caliber .45 pistol and a fragmentation grenade. Criminal charges will be filed against him.
One remains at large (Eagle News)–The National Bureau of Investigation has arrested eight Koreans for alleged phishing activities and over illegal drugs. In a statement, the NBI said the arrest of Jung Ju Wan, Kim Tea Yang, Oh Young Seong, Song Jong Min, Jin Jun Young, Kim Dae Hyun, Sung Won Kang, Yeong Hak Tak and Young Jo Choi in Angeles, Pampanga was made after the equipment, including computers, phones, among others, they used for […]
(Eagle News)–The National Bureau of Investigation has arrested the person allegedly behind the videos that linked President Rodrigo Duterte’s family to illegal drug activities. Authorities did not identify the suspect, but said his arrest took place on Tuesday, April 30. The suspect allegedly uploaded the videos featuring a man who identified himself as “Bikoy,” and who hurled the allegations against members of the presidential family. “Bikoy” accused presidential son Paolo Duterte of receiving kickbacks from […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — A former South Korean chief justice was arrested Thursday on allegations of abuse of power for allegedly meddling in trials to curry favour with now-ousted president Park Geun-hye. Yang Sung-tae was the presiding judge on the Supreme Court for six years until his retirement in 2017. The South’s politicians have long had legal troubles — all the country’s living ex-presidents are either currently in prison or have previously served jail […]
(Eagle News) — The police on Friday, Aug. 17, said the three lawyers they arrested for “intimidation” and “obstruction of justice” harassed them while they were conducting an inspection at the Time in Manila bar in Makati on Thursday, Aug. 17. According to Southern Police District director Tomas Apolinario, Leni Rocel Rocha, Jan Vincent Sambrano, and Romulo Bernard Alarkon, based on a report from Senior Inspector Jeson Vigilla of the Station Drug Enforcement Unit, “threatened” the […]
by M Jegathesan Agence France Presse Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak was arrested by anti-corruption investigators Tuesday, officials said, the latest dramatic development in a widening graft probe that has engulfed the ex-leader. Najib will be charged Wednesday, a taskforce set up to investigate corruption involving Malaysian state fund 1MDB said in a statement adding the arrest “was made at his home”. The arrest is the latest in a series of stunning moves by […]
BERLIN, Germany (AFP)- An Iraqi failed asylum seeker wanted over the rape and murder of a teenage girl in Germany has been arrested in Iraq, German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said Friday. Ali Bashar, 20, who is believed to have strangled Susanna Maria Feldman, 14, after sexually assaulting her, was “arrested by Kurdish authorities in northern Iraq at the request of German federal police”, said Seehofer. cfm-hmn/fz/nla © Agence France-Presse
PARIS, France (AFP)–A friend of the Chechen-born man who killed one person during a stabbing spree in Paris on Saturday night has been arrested in the eastern French city of Strasbourg, a source close to the inquiry said Sunday. The attacker, whom official sources have named as Khamzat A., grew up with his family in Strasbourg, home to a large community of refugees from the Muslim Russian republic of Chechnya.
