POLICE ROUNDUP

169 Cagayan gov’t druggies surrender

At least 169 local government officials and employees in Cagayan Valley have surrendered under OplanTokhang since July 1.

 Chief Supt. Gilbert Sosa, Cagayan Valley police director, said three Sangguniang Bayan members, 46 village chiefs and 92 barangay council members were among those who surrendered.

Eight village watchmen and 20 local government employees also surrendered.

Sosa said majority of those who surrendered were from  Cagayan.

87 nabbed in Baguio for drugs

BAGUIO CITY— The Baguio City police office said 104 personalities were arrested in operations from July 1 to August 31.

Eighty seven of the arrested personalities were drug peddlers while 17 were users even as more than half of the arrested have already surrendered but continued with their illegal activities.

 Drug surrenderees  in the city have  also increased from 700 in July to 1,010 in August. Of the 1,010 surrenderees, 108 of are pushers while the remaining are all users.

City police director Snior Supt. George Daskeo, with the city officials bared this as he led councilors and department heads in covenant signing against illegal drugs last week.

 Daskeo said the manifesto is a way to show full support to President Rodrigo Duterte’s intensified all out-wars against drugs.

 Mayor Mauricio Domogan earlier pledged support in all the endeavors to rid drugs in the city.

Officials and representatives from the non-government organizations, government line agencies, civil society organizations and the private sector also joined in committing their support to the campaign against illegal drugs.

As of August 30, the nationwide all-out war on drugs already killed at least 895 drug pushers while more than 500,000 drug pushers and addicts surrendered in the first two months of the Duterte administration. -- RedjieMelvicCawis

Village treasurer gunned down

STA. CATALINA, Ilocos Sur -- A newly appointed barangay treasurer was gunned down in Sta. Catalina, Ilocos Sur on Tuesday.

Glenford Polanco, 34, was pronounced dead on arrival at the St. James Hospital in Vigan City.


Initial reports showed Polanco was with his brother Emil and village chief Chris Conrad Navarro in front of his house in Barangay Poblacion at around 8 a.m. when unidentified men appeared from behind and opened fire.—Raymund Catindig

1,700 druggies surrender in Abra

BANGUED, Abra—Provincial police director Supt. Mark D. Pespes reported more than 1,700 drug personalities have surrendered to authorities.

However, he said there are individuals who continue to do their illegal business including those who had already taken their oaths of commitment to reform, first under the PNP, and the second by Gov.  Ma.Jocelyn V. Bernos during the launching of the ‘Project Salbar’.

Warrants of arrest issued by our courts continue to hunt drug personalities in Abra who have not surrendered under the Oplan Double Barrel and the police have arrested suspected drug personalities, red-handed with illegal drugs and paraphernalia including marked money used in the buy-bust operations.

Earlier this month, the PPOC adopted  ‘Project Salbar’ conceptualized by  the Governor  in partnership with the Department of Interior and Local Government under Director Millicent B. Carino,  which aims to help those drug personalities who surrendered under the PNP’s ‘OplanTokhang’.

Meanwhile, the Abra Counseling Center at the Old Abra Provincial Hospital Compound   will continue with its counseling services for the drug dependents to help them in their rehabilitation without necessarily going  tocostly rehabilitation centers that are not even available in the locality.

In the same meeting, PPOC decided to pursue the past administration’s PagtatiKappia (Peace Pact) with Vice Governor Ronald S. Balao-as as the lead. -- Maria Teresa B. Beñas

Farm worker stabs peer 

TAYUM, Abra – An employee of Bigornia’s Farm here at Bantay, Velasco stabbed his co-employee Monday around 10 p.m. The victim was identified as Ramil ToqueroSagot, 39 while the suspect was named as  Cris Balenira Balanay, 42.  

Investigation revealed the victim and suspect were both stay-in employees. Allegedly, they were inside the farm watching television together with other farm helpers when a heated altercation ensued between the two. The suspect got irked and stabbed the victim once on his back with a kitchen knife. The suspect fled immediately after the incident to the forested area inside the farm but was apprehended by the responding cops.

The victim was rushed to a hospital where he is now confined.

Jobless man nabbed for shabu 

BAGUIO CITY – Cops arrested here Monday Edmund Musa Genese, 20, jobless for having in his possession shabu, drug paraphernalia and P500 buy-bust money. Genese, of  Liwanag, Loacan and pieces of evidence were taken to PNP Crime Laboratory, Camp Bado, La Trinidad, Benguet for drug tests.

Village chief nabbed for guns

VINTAR, Ilocos Norte – A barangay chairman here was arrested on Wednesday for illegal possession of firearms.

            Rolando Ancheta of Barangay Bago was collared for carrying a gun which was found to be unlicensed.

Laoag City Regional Trial Court Branch 15 Judge Benjamin Turgano set the bail at P12,000.   

Man lands in jail for estafa, usurpation of authority

BAGUIO CITY – Police nabbed here Monday a certain Salvador Cumoyog, 37, of Upper Rock Quarry for estafa and usurpation of authority.

The suspect was arrested around 4 p.m. at the corner of Ferguson Road and Naguillian Road after warrant was issued against him by Judge Jennifer P Humiding of RTC 63, La Trinidad Benguet for estafa who set bail of P18,000.

Judge Delilah N Gonzales-Munoz of MTC, First Judicial Region, La Trinidad, Benguet also issued warrant against him for usurpation of authority with bail of P10,000.00. Assisting Judge Ivan Kim Morales of RTC Branch 8, Baguio City also ordered him arrested for syndicated estafa with no bail.

Housewife arrested for

estafa, illegal recruitment

STA. MARCELA, Apayao – A woman was nabbed here Monday for seven cases counts of estafa at Barangay San Carlos. Nabbed was Josie B. Centeno, 51, house wife.

A police report said Centeno was nabbed also for illegal recruitment in large scale. Judge Francisco F. Donato of RTC Branch 33, 2nd Judicial Region, Ballesteros, Cagayan issued warrants for her arrest.

Man nabbed in

jail for robbery

BAGUIO CITY – A young man incarcerated at the city jail was served a warrant of arrest Monday for robbery. Suspect was named as  John Joshua TimbalPenamante, 20, miner, here of Padre Zamora.

Judge Mia Joy C. Cawed issued warrant for his arrest with a recommended bail of P100,000.

Penamante was brought to Kabayan, Benguet  where he allegedly committed the deed.

Army man mauls government employee

VILLAVICIOSA, Abra -- A government employee was allegedly mauled here by a member of the Army’s 45th Infantry battalion based in Jolo, Sulu around 5 p.m. of Aug. 27.   

Police said on August 27, around 5 p.m. the suspect along with others are having a drinking session at Barangay Lumaba when the victim arrived to chat. The suspect mauled the victim when a heated argument ensued between them. Villaviciosa police brought the victim to the Abra Provincial Hospital in Bangued for medical treatment. The suspect said he was willing to shoulder all expenses of the victim. 

Subject: Physical Injuries (Self-inflicted)

Reference: Memorandum from CD, BCPO dated August 28, 2016.

Man stabs self after wife’s kin confront him

BAGUIO CITY – A man was brought to a hospital here after he stabbed himself adter being confronted by his wife’s relatives over a family problem.

Police said the incident happened Aug.t 28, around 9 p.m. adding they received a phone call from Kagawad DelfinTul-od informing them that one Elmer Estacio Villanueva, 26, resident of Baguio Country Club Village was injured.

Investigation revealed the victim went home allegedly under the influence of liquor and was confronted by the relatives of his wife.  Jenny Lictaoa Martin, the victim’s sister-in-law, said during the confrontation, the victim got mad, picked up a kitchen knife and stabbed himself, prompting them to seek assistance from  barangay officials.

Cops brought the victim along with barangay watchment to Baguio General Hospital and Medical Center for medical attention.

2 Nigerians nabbed in  Dagupan City for shabu

DAGUPAN CITY, Pangasinan -- Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency personnel and police in the Ilocos region caught two Nigerians using methamphetamine hydrochloride or shabu here at Barangay Pogo Grande Wednesday night.

Combined forces of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency Regional Office 1 (PDEA RO1) and the Philippine National Police raided the foreigners' spacious apartment after they were tipped of a nightly drug session in the area, Bismark Bengwayan, PDEA-Region 1 spokesperson, said.

The duo -- 29-year-old Emmanuel Divine Ugochukwu and 30-year-old Stephen Samuel Anoruo -- tested positive for drugs. Various drug paraphernalia were found scattered in the apartment while a plastic sachet of shabu and five grams of marijuana were recovered by authorities.

The two reportedly also invited neighbors to join them in their sessions.

Bengwayan said the duo entered the country as students but were lured into illegal drugs.

Authorities are investigating if the two are part of a drug syndicate.

PDEA suspects the West African Drug Syndicate (WADS) has begun operating in Northern Luzon and has been luring Filipina students by befriending them and later on asking them to become drug couriers.

Man nabbed for homicide

MALIBCONG, Abra – Cops arrested a a certain Jefrey Martinez Gascon, 32,  construction worker, of Patucannay, Tayum town for reckless imprudence resulting to homicide.

This, after Redentor B Valera, presiding judge, municipal trial court  Bangued, ordered him arrested recommending bail of P30, 000 for his temporary liberty.  Arrested person is now under the custody of Malibcong police.

Man wanted for estafa nabbed  

BAGUIO CITY – A man wanted for estafa was arrested here Aug 28  at Lower Lourdes Barangay, Arrested  was Jose Dean Batayo Espelico, 57, married and resident of said place.

 Acting presiding judge Cecilia Corazon S. Dulay-Archog of RTC Branch 6, Baguio City issued warrant for his arredst earlier recommending bail of P300, 000 for his temp[orary liberty.

Worker fires gun many  times; threatens witnesses

LAGAYAN, Abra – Charges are set to be filed by police against a rubber tree plantation worker after he allegedly fired his gun many times night of Aug. 27 and later threatened witnesses at gunpoint.   

A police report said the incident happened at Lucgay, Collago, naming the suspect as Ronie Cay-an Medrano, 32, resident of the area.  The report said sangguniang bayan member member Noel Cortez, reported to police he received a phone call from a concerned citizen in Collago, of firing incident on their residence around 7-8 p.m. omn Aug. 27.

Police called barangay kagawad Jomar Benjamin who confirmed gunshots have been heard around the residences. He said he conducted an inquiry among  residents and was informed that Medrano, was the one who fired the gunshots.  

The alleged suspect went to the residences of the witnesses purportedly looking for a friend but upon seeing the witnesses, he threatened them and later fired a long firearm which he was carrying. Police were not able to investigate as access to Collago was not possible due to the swollen Palsuguan River. 

Benjamin said he spoke to Medrano and one of the alleged victims named Dionisio Cay-an wherein they agreed to settle the incident in front of barangay officials. The alleged victims and Benjamin were invited to go to Lagayantwon proper for further investigation before charges would be filed against the suspect.

Farmer nabbed for syndicated estafa

LAGAWE, Ifugao --  Police arrested  here Monday a certain Alex CholinPil-o, 32, farmer, resident of IB 110- Betag, La Trinidad, Benguet for syndicated estafa. This, after Romeo U. Habbiling, presiding judge, of RTC Branch 14, Lagawe, issued arrest warrant against him for 11 estafa cases with no bail recommended.