Tag: Raid

Albayalde sacks Northern Samar cops following alleged NPA raid of municipal police station

(Eagle News)–Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde sacked all the policemen from the Lapinig Town Police Station in Northern Samar after their station was reportedly raided by at least a hundred members of the New People’s Army on Friday, Aug. 10. The sacked officials included Lapinig’s chief of police Inspector Noli Montebon;  Senior Supt. Romeo Campomanes, Northern Samar provincial director; and Chief Insp. Juan Byron Leogo, commander of the 2nd Northern Samar Provincial Mobile Force Company. After a deliberation […]

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Seven killed, two hurt in raid in alleged drug suspects’ “lair” in North Cotabato

(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 […]

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PDEA releases validated “narco-list” of barangay officials

(Eagle News) — The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency on Monday, April 30, released the validated list of barangay officials allegedly engaged in illegal drug activities. PDEA Chief Aaron Aquino said the names of 207 individuals in the list was validated by four government agencies. Of the 207, 90 were barangay captains and 117 were barangay kagawad. PDEA said the most number of involved barangay officials was in Region 5, with 70. This, PDEA said, was […]

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Napoles to Sandiganbayan: A BJMP search team harassed me

(Eagle News) — Janet Lim Napoles has accused a raiding team of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology of harassment. Napoles made the accusation in an attempt to convince the Sandiganbayan, where she faces a plunder case in connection with the pork barrel scam, that  she needed to be moved to a safehouse from Camp Bagong Diwa where she is detained. According to the undated incident report submitted by Napoles, the incident took place […]

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Ozamiz Mayor Parojinog’s brother on immigration lookout

(Eagle News) — Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre has ordered Ozamiz Councilor Ricardo Parojinog placed on immigration lookout, days after he escaped the house where police seized illegal drugs, and high-powered firearms and ammunition in a raid that left alleged drug personalities–including his brother, Ozamiz Mayor Reynaldo Parojinog Sr.–dead. In an urgent memorandum, Aguirre instructed immigration officers to “be on the lookout” for the councilor, who remains at large since the Sunday incident that also saw […]

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2 arestado sa Laguna dahil sa paggawa, pagbenta ng mga candy na may halong marijuana

  SAN PEDRO, Laguna (Eagle News) — Arestado ang dalawang lalaki na umano’y gumagawa ng mga candy na may halong marijuana at ibinebenta sa mga paaralan at unibersidad sa San Pedro City, Laguna, kamakailan. Kinilala ang mga suspek na sina Bobby Albert Bobcock, 32, isang Filipino-American, at Jan Allen Ledesma, 23. Naaresto ang mga suspek sa isang raid na isinagawa ng mga otoridad sa isang maliit na apartment sa Park Spring Village, Brgy. San Antonio. […]

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British police raid Manchester property following attack

British police raided a property in the Manchester district of Fallowfield where they carried out a controlled explosion on Tuesday (May 23). The raid followed a suicide bombing that killed 22 people, including children, in an attack on a crowded concert hall. Manchester remained on high alert, with additional armed police drafted in. The suspected attacker was named as Salman Abedi, aged 22. Two United States officials who have been in contact with British authorities […]

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US defends Yemen raid that left SEAL, civilians dead

by Thomas WATKINS Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The White House on Thursday defended a US special operations raid in Yemen as a “success by all standards,” even though multiple civilians and a Navy SEAL were killed, and the mission was beset with problems. Sunday’s raid — the first authorized by President Donald Trump — saw US special operations forces enter the Yakla region of Baida province and target a compound occupied […]

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88 dead in Turkish raids on IS-held Syria town: monitor

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) — At least 88 civilians have been killed in 24 hours of Turkish air strikes on an Islamic State group bastion in northern Syria, a monitoring group said Friday. A barrage of raids hit Al-Bab on Thursday, killing 72 civilians including 21 children, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Bombardment continued on Friday, leaving another 16 civilians dead, including three children. “Eighty-eight civilians have been killed in 24 hours,” Observatory […]

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Suspect in France police killing had been sentenced for jihad links: sources

PARIS, France (AFP) — A man suspected to have killed a French policeman and his partner in a terror-linked attack had been sentenced in 2013 for taking part in a jihadist organisation with links to Pakistan, sources close to the probe said Tuesday. They identified him as Larossi Abballa, 25, adding that he had been sentenced to a three-year term — six months of which were suspended — for “criminal association with the aim of […]

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