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(Eagle News)–Then-National Capital Region Police Office director Oscar Albayalde called Aaron Aquino, the then-police director of Region III, and asked him to not sign the dismissal order against the 13 policemen behind the allegedly anomalous raid in Pampanga in 2013. Senator Richard Gordon said this was Aquino’s narration to him and Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon before the Senate joint hearing on the Good Conduct Time Allowance law on Tuesday, Oct. 1. “Yun nga kinausap […]
(Eagle News)–The United States visa granted to the woman who allegedly buys the recycled illegal drugs of ninja cops has been cancelled. Justice Undersecretary Markk Perete said this was upon the request of the Department of Justice that has also issued an immigration lookout bulletin order against Guia Gomez Castro. Castro, the National Capital Region Police Office said, took a flight to the United States, days after a “drug queen” was mentioned in a Senate […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte will defer taking any action following the allegations against Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde and 13 policemen who were ordered dismissed but were later only demoted for engaging in the recycling of illegal drugs. Before leaving for Russia on Tuesday night, Duterte said he would wait for the joint Senate panel to complete its probe first. He said he would then submit the Senate panel report to Interior Secretary Eduardo […]
(Eagle News)–Now-Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde was among those who got a sport utility vehicle after the questioned 2013 drug raid in Pampanga, former Criminal Investigation and Detection Group chief Benjamin Magalong said. Magalong told a joint Senate panel hearing the Good Conduct Time Allowance law on Tuesday, Oct. 1, that this was according to then-PNP Chief Alan Purisima, who as a result ordered Magalong to probe the raid in Mexico. Magalong said the […]
(Eagle News) – Former Philippine National Police (PNP) Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) chief and now Baguio City mayor Benjamin Magalong said that the cops involved in the questionable drug raid in Mexico, Pampanga had seized around 200 kilos of shabu and not just 30 kilos. During the Senate hearing on Tuesday, Oct. 1, Magalong told Senate Blue Ribbon committee chair Senator Richard Gordon, that there was apparent mishandling of evidence in the […]
(Eagle News)–Former Criminal Investigation and Detection Group Chief Benjamin Magalong on Tuesday, Oct. 1, revealed the names of the policemen he said, among others, colluded to enable the release of a foreign national who had been arrested for illegal drug-related activities in a Pampanga raid in November 2013. In the joint Senate panel hearing on the Good Conduct Time Allowance law, Magalong said administrative and criminal charges were filed against Supt. Rodney Baloyo, allegedly the […]
(Eagle News)–The names of the policemen who allegedly sell recycled illegal drugs are expected to be revealed in today’s hearing of the joint Senate panel initially looking into the Good Conduct Time Allowance law. This was after President Rodrigo Duterte did not reveal their names in his recent public speeches even after Senator Bong Go said he would do so. Earlier, the Senate gave the approval for the names, which were bared by former Criminal […]
(Eagle News)–Fifty-three active police officers are engaged in the recycling of illegal drugs, Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency chief Aaron Aquino said on Thursday, Sept. 26. In an interview over radio dzmm, Aquino said authorities came up with the number after consolidating the names on the lists of PDEA, the Philippine National Police and of former Criminal Investigation and Detection Group chief Benjamin Magalong. Magalong reportedly revealed the names in an executive session in the Senate, […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte reiterated anew his warning to unscrupulous law enforcers after the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency said some “ninja cops” recycle illegal drugs. The President gave the warning in a speech in Parañaque on Wednesday, Sept. 25, after the Senate approved the disclosure of the names of the policemen engaged in the “agaw-bato” scheme and said a list would be given to the President. Authorities have identified the woman who allegedly bought the […]
(Eagle News)–Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde does not believe the recycling of illegal drugs in the country is rampant. In an interview over CNN Philippines on Tuesday, Sept. 24, Albayalde noted that Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency Chief Aaron Aquino, who said such a practice was rampant among law enforcers, was only referring to one incident of illegal drugs recycling. “If you’re talking about one incident, that’s not rampant,” Albayalde said. He said the PNP […]
Adds some PNP officials “recycle” illegal drugs (Eagle News)–A former head of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group on Thursday, Sept. 19, said “all roads practically lead to Bilibid” where the illegal drug trade is concerned. Benjamin Magalong, now the mayor of Baguio city, told a joint Senate panel hearing corruption in the Bureau of Corrections that based on a CIDG investigation when he was CIDG chief, Chinese drug personalities “continue to remotely manage the […]
P100,000 worth of high-grade marijuana reportedly seized from suspects (Eagle News)–Rapper Loonie and several others were arrested in a buy-bust operation in Makati on Wednesday night. Apart from the rapper, whose real name is Marlon Peroramas, nabbed from the basement of a hotel on Polaris St. in Barangay Poblacion, Makati at 8:45 p.m. were David Rizon, Ivan Agustin, Albert Alvarez, and Loonie’s younger sister Idyll Liza Peroramas. Fifteen sachets of high-grade marijuana worth P100,000 […]
