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(Eagle News)—Eighteen people have been charged in connection with the Lamitan, Basilan blast that killed 10 people. Of the 18 charged with multiple frustrated murder before an Isabela court , only eight—Musa Jallaha, Nsir Nuruddin, Julamin Arundoh, Al Basir Ahmad, Julamin Arundoh, Saad Tedie, Ammar Indama, Hadji Hurang and Abdurahim Lijal have been arrested, Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde said. The ten people were killed after the bomb detonated at a military checkpoint on […]
By Mar Gabriel Eagle News Service The Philippine National Police has identified the alleged mastermind in the killing of General Tinio, Nueva Ecija Mayor Ferdinand Bote. In a press conference, Chief Supt. Amador Corpus, director of PNP Region 3, said it was one Christian Saquilabon, a “contractor,” who ordered Florencio Suarez and Robert Gumatay to do the hit on Bote for P25,000, based on Suarez’s and Gumatay’s statements. Suarez and Gumatay were earlier arrested in […]
(Eagle News)–Two suspects in the killing of General Tinio, Nueva Ecija Mayor Ferdinand Bote have been arrested. The police said Florencio Suarez, 48, and Robert Gumacay, 35, were arrested around 9:30 a.m. after a vehicle they were on was flagged down in a checkpoint in Barangay Cabasag, Del Gallego, Camarines Sur on Wednesday, July 11. Police earlier said Gumacay was not a suspect nor a person of interest. A police report said a a caliber .45 pistol […]
(Eagle News) — The National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) clarified on Thursday, June 14, that the recently announced ban on the police’s presentation of arrested suspects to the media was not a new directive. NCRPO chief Guillermo Eleazar said in an interview with Net 25’s Sa Ganang Mamamayan that Philippine National Police chief Director General Oscar Albayalde only ordered his men to comply with a 10-year-old memorandum implemented since 2008, under then-PNP chief Director General […]
By Meanne Corvera Eagle News Service The Philippine National Police will no longer present arrested suspects before the media. PNP Chief Oscar Albayalde said on Monday, June 11, that the policy was in line with a memorandum issued by the PNP leadership in 2008 that said that such a presentation was a violation of the rights of the suspects. Albayalde made the statement on the same day the Eastern Police District announced the arrest of […]
(Eagle News)– One of the suspects in a bar robbery in Parañaque City was arrested on Friday night. Jesrell Arador, 31 was arrested near his house in Barangay Sto. Antonio. Arador tried to elude the police by jumping from the second floor of his house. He ended up hurting his arm. Arador was identified as one of four who robbed a porridge shop on Dr. A. Santos Ave. on Jan. 4. Arador and his cohorts […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – US President Donald Trump called Wednesday for the man suspected of killing eight people in a New York City truck rampage to be put to death. “NYC terrorist was happy as he asked to hang ISIS flag in his hospital room. He killed 8 people, badly injured 12. SHOULD GET DEATH PENALTY!” Trump wrote on Twitter, referring to the Islamic State jihadist group (Agence France-Presse).
by Rebecca Libermann HELSINKI, Finland (AFP) — The main suspect in last week’s stabbing attack in Finland admitted Tuesday to killing two people and injuring eight others but denied any intent to murder, his lawyer said. The Turku district court placed Abderrahman Mechkah, an 18-year-old Moroccan citizen, in formal custody after he made his statement to the court via video link from hospital, where he is being treated for a police gunshot wound to the […]
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — The suspected jihadists behind Spain’s twin terror attacks are thought to have formed a cell in the foothills of the Pyrenees mountains where they allegedly planned large-scale assaults. Moroccans and a Spaniard The suspects are all youths — most of them Moroccans who lived in Ripoll, a town in Spain’s northeastern Catalonia region where both of the attack sites were also located. Police have launched a manhunt for Younes Abouyaaqoub, […]
BOGOTA, Columbia (Reuters) – Eight people from a little-known urban guerrilla group have been arrested in connection with a bombing last week at an upscale mall in the Colombian capital Bogota, the police said on Saturday (June 24). Three people were killed and eight wounded when an explosive detonated in a women’s restroom at the Andino shopping center on June 17. Four men and four women, members of The People’s Revolutionary Movement (MRP) rebel group, […]
(Agence France Presse) — Three suspects in last month’s bombing in the Saint Petersburg metro have been charged for their involvement in a “terrorist act,” Russian investigators said Thursday. Russia’s Investigative Committee said suspects Bakhram Ergashev, Ibragimzhon Ermatov and Makhamadyusuf Mirzaalimov have also been charged for possession of illegally used explosives. Seven other suspects in the April 3 attack, which killed 15 people, will be charged in the near future, the committee said. The Imam Shamil […]
