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(Eagle News) — The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency is slated to file charges against the parents of the minors who were rescued in a drug operation in Navotas last week. In a statement, PDEA director general Aaron Aquino said the parents of the minors–aged 4 years old to 15 years old—should be held liable for violation of Republic Act 7610, or the Special Protection of Children Against Abuse, Exploitation and Discrimination Act. Aquino said, after all, […]
(Eagle News)–The House of Representatives justice panel approved on Monday, Jan. 21, approved a bill seeking to lower the age of criminal liability from 15 years old to nine years old. The approval came despite opposition from Gabriela Rep. Arlene Brosas. In a previous statement, House Speaker Gloria Arroyo said she would move for the approval of the bill in support of President Rodrigo Duterte’s request. The approval came after children aged 4 to 15 […]
(Eagle News) — Aabot sa 19 na kilo ng shabu na nagkakahalaga ng mahigit 129 milyong piso ang nasabat ng Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency sa Clark International Airport. Ang mga shabu, naka-repack ng tig-250 grams at itinago sa loob ng mga lata ng tomato sauce na nakalagay sa kahon. Matapos madiskubre ang modus, agad na ikinasa ng PDEA ang controlled delivery operations. Isa-isa nilang inihatid ang mga package sa address ng mga nakalagay na consignee. […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Leila de Lima has cried foul over some people’s comments her detention was a result of the existing political climate, saying this implied she targeted political enemies when she was in a “better” political climate in the first place. “I have persecuted no one for political reasons or personal vengeance. I have killed no one. I have stolen nothing. I have sold or traded no drugs. I have not conspired with […]
(Eagle News)–The Palace on Monday, Jan. 14, said there was basis for President Rodrigo Duterte’s dismissal of Bacolod police chief Senior Supt. Francis Ebreo. According to Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo, the dismissal was based on intelligence information reaching the chief executive. “We have the PNP (Philippine National Police), we have the CIDG (Criminal Investigation and Detection Group), we have the PDEA (Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency). All these agencies ordinarily provide the information relative to those […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has fired Bacolod City Chief of Police Francis Ebreo for his alleged involvement in illegal drugs, as well as the dismissal of four other police officials whom he accused of being drug protectors in the city. Duterte even asked Ebreo to stand up during his speech on Saturday in Bacolod City at the L’Fisher Hotel. “I’d like to know if the chief of police is here. If you […]
(Eagle News) — The Palace on Friday, Dec. 21, said the support of a body of the United Nations Human Rights Council for a probe into what it said were the human rights violations against Senator Leila de Lima constituted an “intrusion of our sovereignty.” “They have been saying that and we’ve been saying that the problem with you people is you’re listening to the critics of this administration. You are not investigating on your own,” […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday, Dec. 18, said it was Mar Roxas who ordered former police general Vicente Loot killed. “I did not order the ambush. It was Roxas. Roxas ordered his ambush, not me,” Duterte said in Visayan. On May 18, unidentified men opened fire at Loot and his family who had just arrived in a wharf in Daanbantayan, Cebu, where the former general is mayor. They survived the attack. President Duterte has […]
(Eagle News) – -The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) said that part of the huge shabu shipment taken from the magnetic lifters that were found in General Mariano Alvarez in Cavite, had not only spread in Metro Manila, but could have reached as far as Mindanao. The announcement came after some illegal drugs that were seized in an operation in Mindanao showed similarities with the methamphetamine hydrochloride, locally known as shabu, that were confiscated from […]
(Eagle News)—The son of Bureau of Corrections chief Nicanor Faeldon tested negative for illegal drugs, the police said. But Senior Supt. Felix Servita Jr., Naga police director, said Nicanor Faeldon Jr. will still be charged for being a visitor of an identified drug den, as provided for in the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act. This was after a report released by the Crime Laboratory of Camarines Sur showed the sachets seized from the house where the younger […]
(Eagle News)–This mugshot released by the Police Regional Office 5 shows Bureau of Corrections chief Nicanor Faeldon’s son, Nicanor Faeldon Jr., who was nabbed from a suspected drug den in Naga on Friday, Dec. 14. Apart from the younger Faeldon, also arrested were at least three other people, including his girlfriend. The BuCor chief has vowed to step down if his son is proven to have links to drugs.
(Eagle News) — Bureau of Corrections chief Nicanor Faeldon claimed he was “clueless” about the incident involving his son and namesake, Nicanor Jr., who was arrested in a Naga City drug raid. “I am totally clueless on that incident, as neither my son nor the police authorities have contacted me,” Faeldon said in a press statement prepared by his legal team. “I commend the Naga City police authorities on their efforts to curb if not […]
