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Four people arrested (Eagle News) — Authorities seized around P3.5 million worth of illegal drugs in a buy-bust operation in Quezon City on Thursday, Feb. 7. The National Capital Region Police Office said the police and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency operatives also arrested Ruby Balani, Mary Jane Duran, Joshua Salazar, and Mineya Amorine in their joint operation in an apartelle on Araneta Ave. in Cubao. Confiscated from the suspects were 500 grams of shabu with a street value […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed a retired police official to a post at the Office of the President. Documents released by the Palace on Thursday, Jan. 31, showed Gilbert Sosa, former head of the Philippine National Police Anti-Cybercrime Group who retired from the police force in August 2018, was appointed as assistant secretary on Tuesday, Jan. 29. Former Manila Rep. Ramon Bagatsing was also appointed as ambassador to India (with concurrent jurisdiction over Nepal) and […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine National Police has cleared the four men who were earlier linked to the Jolo, Sulu blasts. Senior Supt. Bernard Banac, PNP spokesperson, said Alshaber Arbi, 18; Gerry Isnajil; Alsimar Mohammad Albi, 24; and Julius Abdulzam Albi, 17; who all figured in footage from a closed-circuit television camera at the blasts site, were released on Wednesday night. Authorities earlier said they were members of the Ajang-Ajang group of the Abu Sayyaf, […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine National Police on Tuesday, Jan. 29, said it was possible the four teenagers, who authorities earlier said were behind the Jolo, Sulu blasts over the weekend, were actually innocent. PNP spokesperson Senior Supt. Bernard Banac made the admission after a reporter noted what appeared to be the shocked reactions of three of the four teenagers to the second blast at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, based on footage from a […]
It is a “plain act of terrorism,” PNP says (Eagle News) — The Philippine National Police on Tuesday, Jan. 29, said the bombings in Jolo, Sulu were “definitely not related” to the ratification of the Bangsamoro Organic Law. According to Senior Supt. Bernard Banac, PNP spokesperson, based on their investigation, “this is just a plain act of terrorism on the part of the suspects.” “Planado ito. Ang pambobomba ay a result of months of planning,” […]
(Eagle News) – The Philippine National Police has declared a nationwide heightened alert following the bombings on Sunday, January 27, in a Catholic Church in Jolo, Sulu. This came about as Interior and Local Government secretary Eduardo Año said that the bombing is possibly connected to the recent results of the Bangsamoro Organic Law plebiscite in Sulu where the “No” votes won over the “Yes” votes. Año noted that Sunday’s bombing happened days after […]
(Eagle News)–The Western Visayas police has launched a probe into the killing of a Bacolod deputy police station chief on Saturday, Jan. 26. Chief Supt. John Bulalacao, head of the region 6 police, said he ordered the inquiry into the death of SP04 Oscar Exaltado of Station 6, who was ambushed by two suspects in Barangay Singcang-Airport in Negros Occidental at 7:30 a.m. The police have said it was possible the killing was work-related. Only […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine National Police has a new spokesperson. Senior Superintendent Bernard Banac will replace Chief Supt. Benigno Durana, after he was named the new acting director of the PNP’s Directorate for Community Relations. Banac, who took up BS Civil Engineering in the University of the Philippines, is a member of the Philippine Military Academy Class of 1992. He served as provincial director of Sorsogon, and was also assistant chief of the PNP Supervisory […]
(Eagle News) — Interior Secretary Eduardo Año on Thursday, Jan. 17, welcomed the Alliance of Concerned Teachers’ filing of a petition seeking to put a stop to the Philippine National Police’s information gathering on its members. In a statement, Año, however, also stood by the police’s intelligence gathering, describing it as routine work. He noted Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria Sison himself admitted ACT was one of the group’s fronts. “The PNP will […]
Ni Mar Gabriel Eagle News Service (Eagle News) — Kusang loob na sumuko sa CALABARZON (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal at Quezon) police sa Kalayaan, Laguna nitong weekend ang dalawampung myembro ng New People’s Army na kabilang sa tribong Dumagat. Isinurender din nila sa mga otoridad ang 12 unit ng high powered firearms, mga bala at ilang granada. Nagpasya umano silang sumuko dahil sa hirap ng kanilang sitwasyon sa bundok. “Kami po ay nag-surrender sa mga […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte issued a stern warning to the police and the military all over the country not to enter bars, pubs and other public drinking places. During his speech on Tuesday, January 8, on the Barangay Summit on Peace and Order at the Cuneta Astrodome in Pasay City, the President said that policemen and soldiers should not be involved in drinking sprees inside such places. “Kaya ‘yang mga pulis — […]
(Eagle News)– Daraga, Albay Mayor Carlwyn Baldo had also planned to kill former Mayor Gerry Jaucian, a police official said on Monday, Jan. 7. Quoting the statement of Emmanuel Jaduvar, the police’s main witness in the killing of Rep. Rodel Batocabe, Criminal Investigation and Detection Group director Chief Supt. Amado Corpuz said Baldo had offered P350,000 for the job to the same people who killed the congressman in December 2018. Batocabe’s security aide SP01 Orlando […]
