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Ni Ghadzs Rodelas Eagle News Service BATANGAS CITY, Batangas (Eagle News) – Arestado ang mag-ina kabilang ang isa pa nitong kaanak sa isinagawang buy-bust operation sa Batangas City nitong Martes. Nakuha rin kina Circoncicion Andal alyas Mamita, 58, ang kaniyang inang si Estelita Andal alyas Nanay, 82, at ang kaanak ng mga ito na si Danilo Ramos alyas Kalbo ang 58 pakete ng hinihinalang shabu na nagkakahalagang P1.5 milyon at P15,000 ng marked money, ayon […]
(Eagle News) — Resigned Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre on Thursday, June 7, said the Supreme Court decision that denied with finality detained Senator Leila de Lima’s plea for the arrest warrant issued against her to be nullified only shows that her case was “not of political persecution” as some claimed. “The SC’s decision on the motion for reconsideration of Senator Leila de Lima affirmed what we all knew along. Her arrest on drug charges indeed […]
By Moira Encina Eagle News Service A Department of Justice panel of prosecutors on Wednesday, May 30, granted businessman Peter Lim’s request to be investigated separately from his co-accused in a drug complaint filed against them, but his failure to face the panel on the same day prompted the panel to declare his case submitted for resolution just the same. In granting Lim’s request to be subjected to a preliminary investigation separate from Kerwin Espinosa, […]
(Eagle News)–Seven people were killed and two others were hurt after police and military personnel swooped down in a “lair” of drug suspects in North Cotabato on Friday, May 26. In a statement, Supt. Bernard Tayong, spokesperson for the North Cotabato Police Office, said among those killed were drug suspects Dadting Kasan and Intan Aban, whose hideout in Sitio Biao, Barangay Kilada, Matalam was the subject of the police’s and military’s search warrant. Two of […]
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AFP) — Shootouts across Bangladesh left nine alleged drug dealers dead Thursday, police said, as authorities stepped up a crackdown that now has claimed at least 52 lives in 10 days and drawn criticism from rights groups. The campaign comes as Bangladesh struggles to contain a surging drugs trade, particularly in methamphetamine pills known as “yaba”. However, human rights groups say many of the deaths are the result of extra-judicial killings. Two of […]
But adds it is “always ready” to go to Taiwan to get him so he can face cases vs him By Mar Gabriel Eagle News Service Philippine National Police spokesperson John Bulalacao said it “may take time” before Ricardo “Ardot” Parojinog is deported to the Philippines so he can face the charges against him. In a press conference on Thursday, May 24, Bulalacao said this was because Parojinog also committed violations in Taiwan, which means […]
(Eagle News) — Ozamiz City Councilor Ricardo “Ardot” Parojinog has been arrested. Chief Supt. John Bulalacao, Philippine National Police spokesperson, said the younger brother of Ozamiz City Mayor Reynaldo Parojinog Sr., who, along with 15 others, was killed in a police operation in his house that yielded drugs and a cache of high-powered firearms last year, was arrested by Taiwan authorities after he tried to enter the country with illegal documents. The younger Parojinog had been […]
By Earlo Bringas Eagle News Service Authorities arrested a woman in a buy-bust operation in Rizal on Tuesday, May 22, seizing over P600,000 worth of suspected shabu from her. The police identified the suspect arrested on C6 Road, Lupang Arenda in Barangay Sta. Ana, Taytay as Marlyn Villanueva, 46. “Itong babae dati nang naaresto sa Pasig in 2003, but after six years ay nadismiss din kaso niya, pero muling bumalik siya sa kaniyang pagtutulak at ginagamit siya […]
(Eagle News) — The Bureau of Customs on Tuesday, May 22, seized two shipments of shabu worth P11.87 million in separate instances in the Ninoy Aquino International Airport. Customs Commissioner Isidro Lapeña said both packages came from California in the United States, and had fake consignees and delivery addresses. The first package, he said, was seized on April 23, and was sent by one Audio Schit. He said it contained 344.50 grams of suspected shabu and […]
(Eagle News) — Almost all of the 115 reelectionists who were on the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency’s narco-list won in the recently concluded barangay elections. The figure given by Interior Undersecretary Martin Diño in a radio interview over dzbb on Saturday, May 19, was higher than the 60 officials on the narco-list who won in the same elections, according to PDEA. He said these officials would be closely monitored by the Department of the Interior […]
By Moira Encina Eagle News Service Self-confessed drug distributor Kerwin Espinosa on Tuesday, May 15, reiterated his call for the drug-related charges filed against him to be dismissed. In his response-affidavit submitted before the new Department of Justice panel looking into the cases filed against him and several others, Espinosa said his “admission” he was a drug distributor in a Senate hearing in 2016 should not be used against him because there was no “proverbial corpus […]
(Eagle News)—Daanbantayan, Cebu Mayor Vicente Loot, who was named a narco-general by President Rodrigo Duterte, survived a strafing incident on Sunday, May 13. The nanny of his grandchild and his two drivers were however wounded when five men carrying high-powered firearms shot at them at a port in Barangay Maya, Daanbantayan. The mayor and his family, who had just arrived from Malapascua around 7 a.m., were unhurt because they were on a pumpboat at that […]
