Suspect in rape-slay of Pinay-Swiss student falls in Nueva Ecija

A suspect in the rape and killing of a Filipina-Swiss college student Glaudia Schnelli in December 2010 was arrested in Nueva Ecija on Thursday, a radio dzBB report said on Friday.

 

The suspect, Felix Lasala, was arrested in Talayan City in Nueva Ecija province and was to be brought to the Parañaque City court, radio dzBB's Manny Vargas reported.

 

Lasala faces charges of rape with homicide for the case, the report said.

 

A Facebook account  seeking justice for Schnelli indicated that the victim, 20 years old at the time of her death, was to graduate with a communication (broadcasting) degree in April 2011.

 

The Facebook account also said she was raped and killed on December 3, 2010, and cremated on December 9.

5 estudyante, tinambangan sa labas mismo ng kanilang eskwelahan sa Cotabato City; 2, patay

16-anyos na lalaki, nakitang patay sa kisame ng tindahan

Lalaking binaril sa harap ng kanyang bahay, patay (Lapu-lapu, Cebu)

Bangkay ng Korean National na natagpuang nakalibing sa likod ng bahay, isasailalim sa autopsy

Napatay na suspek sa tangkang panghoholdap sa armored vehicle sa isang mall, nakilala na

Panghoholdap ng dalawang lalaki sa computer shop, na-Huli Cam

Babae, nadukutan ng cellphone ng buntis na suspek sa QC

Lalaking nagtangka umanong mangholdap ng jeep, patay matapos barilin ng 2 pulis

Biktima ng holdap, nasawi sa paghabol sa mga suspek

17 anyos na kasambahay, sinagip

7-anyos na estudyante, tinangka umanong dukutin sa loob ng paaralan

Granada, sumabog sa City proper ng Iloilo City

Lalaki, patay matapos pagpapaluin at sunugin ng sariling anak; ina, sugatan din (Iloilo)

2 pulis sa Caloocan, patay nang pagbabarilin ng mga sinitang rider ng motorsiklo

92-anyos na lola sa Makati, patay matapos pagsasaksakin ng 22 beses

Biktima ng carnapping, patay matapos tadtarin ng saksak

DILG Investigating Kidnapping Of Children

MANILA, Philippines - Malacañang said yesterday the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) is conducting an investigation into the spate of kidnapping of children in Metro Manila and nearby provinces.

"Pinapaimbestiga kung paano at bakit nagkakaroon ng prevalence of kidnapping ng mga bata [There is an investigation on how and why there is a prevalence of kidnapping among children]," Presidential Spokesman Edwin Lacierda said in a press briefing yesterday.

"We have asked (DILG) Secretary [Jesse] Robredo to look into it," he said.

The order came after reports of a foiled attempt to kidnap two girls, aged three and four, in Quezon City by men who attempted to drag the children into a van. The mother of the children fought off the would-be kidnappers, who wore balaclavas to hide their identity, with a badminton racket. The men escaped in the van.

Mga gwardya ng selda kung saan nabaril ang dalawang rape-slay suspects, iniimbestigahan

Akyat-bahay sa Pasig, arestado

Umano'y notorious na snatcher, arestado sa Pasig

Pananambang sa convoy ng Dominguez brothers, hindi raw gawa-gawa ayon sa QCPD

Dalawang lalaki, patay sa magkahiwalay na pamamaril

Cashier killed as water gun-wielding thieves rob gas station

MANILA, Philippines—A 33-year-old cashier was stabbed dead early Thursday when he tried to stop three thieves, who were armed with knives and a water gun, from making off with the cash box of a gasoline station in Tondo, Manila, the police said.

One of the thieves allegedly used the squirt gun, loaded with an unknown liquid, to temporarily blind one of the gas station employees, allowing the assailants to flee with the cash box containing a still undetermined amount of money.

Police said Silverio Barbin Jr, cashier of the Shell Gasoline Station along Road 10, Vitas in Tondo, sustained at least four stab wounds in the head and body. He was declared dead on arrival at the Mary Johnston Hospital.
Senior Police Officer 2 Glenzor Vallejo, of the Manila Police District homicide section, said Barbin was cleaning the cashier’s booth of the gas station at around 3 a.m.

Funeral home owner slain in Valenzuela

Employees at a funeral home in Valenzuela City suddenly found themselves making special arrangements for no ordinary crime victim—their own boss.

This was after 32-year-old Ruel Vitan, owner of RL Vitan Funeral in Barangay (village) Malinta, was killed by a still unidentified gunman during a heated argument on Tuesday. Police said the businessman was shot around 7:30 a.m. in front of his house on P. Miranda Street.

“Somebody went to his house. The neighbors said the two men started arguing, and then they heard shots,” Police Officer 3 Dalton Rodriguez told the Inquirer.

The shooter fled the scene while Vitan was rushed to Fatima Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead on arrival, Rodriguez said. The victim succumbed to a single gunshot wound in the back.

The investigator said that apart from owning a funeral parlor located a few meters from his house, Vitan was also into buy-and-sell business, particularly dealing in cars.

“At this point, though, we can’t conclude anything yet (as to the motive of the killing),” the officer added.

Filipino-Chinese Businesswoman abducted in Juan Luna Binondo

MANILA, Philippines — Filipino-Chinese residents in Binondo Manila are alarmed over the possible rise of kidnap-for-ransom incidents after three unidentified armed men abducted a Filipino-Chinese businesswoman last Friday night in Juan Luna Muelle de Binondo, Bandera reported Wednesday.

According to a source whose name was withheld by the publication, the victim – a dealer of milk products and wife of a former village chairman – was on her way home from her store accompanied by her househelp and driver at 6:45 p.m. Friday.

According a source, whose name was withheld due to his lack of authority to disclose information regarding the matter, the suspects were on board a taxi when they intercepted the victim’s L300 van.

Armed with short firearms, the suspects forced the house help to alight the vehicle, leaving the driver and the Filipino-Chinese businesswoman on board before boarding the van and speeding off.

Janitor in P12M rob yet to post P24K bail

The janitor being linked to the string of robberies in a condominium complex in Quezon City remained in detention six days after his arrest, as he claimed he caouldn’t afford the P24,000 bail.

Ariel Buenavista, 34, a housekeeping crewman at Manors Celebrity Place Condominium Complex in Old Balara, said his wife, a supermarket saleslady in Makati City, was still trying to raise the money.

Also on Tuesday, Chief Inspector Rodelio Marcelo of the Quezon City police said Buenavista was so far charged with only one count of robbery out of the four burglaries reported in the complex since October last year, where over P12 million in cash and jewelry had allegedly been stolen.

“There’s no witness yet against him on the other cases. We only have witnesses in the latest incident,” Marcelo explained. A security employee claimed seeing Buenavista rushing out of the complex carrying a black jewelry box before taking a taxicab on Monday last week.—Nancy C. Carvajal

Cops: Muntinlupa thieves dug tunnel from manhole

Police said the group that broke into the Makati South Supermarket in Alabang, Muntinlupa City, on Monday morning may have used a manhole near the supermarket as the starting point for the tunnel they dug to get into the establishment.

“There is a construction site near the supermarket, and a manhole also near it,” Superintendent Federico Castro Jr., Southern Police District deputy director for operations, said in a telephone interview Tuesday. “The suspects could have applied as construction workers and used the power tools to dig underground and break into the supermarket.”

The burglars—dubbed by the police as the “Acetylene Gang” because they use acetylene torches to pry open vaults—took a still undetermined amount of cash and four .38-cal. pistols from the supermarket’s vault.

“The suspects might have been aiming for a bank, which is also near the supermarket, the manhole and the construction site. However, they might have dug a hole to the supermarket instead,” Castro said.

He added that the police were still investigating the robbery, which was discovered just before the supermarket opened Monday morning.

Pregnant woman, 2 others caught with shabu at NAIA

MANILA, Philippines - For the third time in less than a month, three suspected couriers of an African drug syndicate was nabbed at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) with shabu in their luggage, officials said yesterday.

Customs collector Teresita Roque said Guinea national Aisha Camara, 28, who is six months pregnant, had a roundabout way of going to Philippines: from Guinea, she went to Casablanca, then to Abu Dhabi, arriving at the NAIA on an Etihad Airways flight last March 11 with 2.7 kilos of shabu.

Meanwhile, Customs task force on dangerous drugs and controlled chemicals, headed by Sherwin Andrada, are investigating a Kenyan couple, Joseph Kyeremateng and Solemana Hamshaww, who arrived on board an Etihad Airways flight from Abu Dhabi yesterday afternoon. Andrada said all four pieces of the couple’s luggage contained shabu.

Camara was denied entry by Bureau of Immigration’s Travel Control and Enforcement Unit (TCEU) when she was unable to explain her purpose in coming to Manila.

Inquirer apologizes over 'offensive' frontpage photo of Demetrio Vicente

The Philippine Daily Inquirer has apologized for publishing “offensive” photos of Demetrio Vicente, a witness for the defense team, on its front page on Wednesday.

“It has come to our attention that our photo of witness Demetrio Vicente on our front page today has offended some of our readers. For this we sincerely apologize. It was not our intention to disparage Mr. Vicente in any way,” Inquirer said on its official Facebook account.

Inquirer has refused to let Yahoo! PH use their digital edition front page photo for this story.

The front page photo featured four pictures of Vicente in unflattering poses with the caption: "Character witness: The many faces of Demetrio Vicente on the witness stand. He’s no ordinary witness after all. He’s the cousin of the Chief Justice whose wife sold him seven parcels of land in 1990, where he now grows bonsai.”

New carjacking scheme bared

MANILA, Philippines—Authorities warned the public on Friday of a new carjacking scheme using the Internet to prey on rent-a-car operators, a Philippine National Police-Highway Patrol Group official said.

The remark was made after two Hyundai Starex vans offered for hire on online advertisement site Sulit.com were carjacked last February 19 in Bataan and Pampanga, HPG director, Chief Superintendent Leonardo Espina said.

He said illegal rent-a-car operators without license to operate their business are “most vulnerable to this modus operandi because of the convenience of selecting targets and the ease of creating an advantageous scenario to stage a carjacking.”

Manors Celebrity Place Condominium Complex Janitor nabbed for condo robberies

He really must have cleaned up the place.

A janitor was arrested in Quezon City Wednesday on complaints that he had stolen over P12 million in cash and valuables from at least four condominium units since October.

Ariel Buenavista, 34, a member of the housekeeping staff at Manors Celebrity Place Condominium Complex in Old Balara, Quezon City, faces charges over a string of burglaries in the compound, which hosts several residential buildings.

Chief Inspector Rodelio Marcelo, chief of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit, said that after the latest robbery that took place on Monday afternoon, a witness claimed seeing Buenavista rushing to leave the complex carrying a black jewelry box before boarding a taxicab.

Buenavista then called in sick and did not report for work on Tuesday, the officer added. Investigators then looked for him at the address that he gave his company but found out that it was fictitious.

The jewelry box was apparently taken from the condo unit owned by one Marissa Gasmen, Marcelo said.
Marcelo surmised that the suspect had picked the door lock of the condo unit, first by boring a tiny hole right above the knob and using an instrument to unlock it from inside.

He said the same method was used to break into the homes of three previous robbery victims in the same complex.

Chilling text to Parañaque couple: ‘Find your daughter among the water lilies’

Text messages from three different numbers gave a Parañaque City couple this chilling clue: They can find their missing daughter “among the water lilies.”

After days of searching, the parents of Clarissa Pizarra, 7, did find her corpse floating in a creek on Monday.
Residents of Medina Land Property in Barangay (village) San Dionisio, Parañaque City, were the first to discover Pizarra’s already foul-smelling remains in what the locals call Balitahar creek, three weeks after the girl went missing.

Her father, Feliciano, later positively identified the body as that of her child based on the clothes she wore when last seen alive on February 20, police said Wednesday.

Based on the father’s statement to the police, Clarissa was abducted by a group of men and shoved into a van that day in front of a sari-sari (variety) store along Tramo I also in Barangay San Dionisio.

Three days later, Feliciano said, he began receiving text messages from three different mobile phone numbers, all saying that he could find his child in the creek, among the water lilies.

The search went on—until the text messages proved correct on Monday.

The Parañaque City police have yet to come up with suspects as of Wednesday.

By Nathaniel R. Melican

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Man shot at Cebu hospital gate, dies

TWO suspects shot a man at the entrance gate of the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) in Cebu City Wednesday morning.

A radio report said the unidentified suspects riding in motorcycle shot Louie Labitan alias "Lupin" past 8 a.m.

Labitan who is reportedly a nephew of suspected drug dealer Cresistomo “Tata Negro” Llaguno who was killed on May 4, 2010, reportedly succumbed to three gunshot wounds.

Two others sustained injuries and are now being treated at the VSMMC.

Investigation is ongoing.

Rebels kill rubber plantation manager

MANILA — Authorities say suspected communist rebels in the south have killed a rubber plantation manager who was also a military intelligence agent.

Kidapawan town police chief Renante Cabico says two men shot Patrick Winiger at close range Wednesday as he was buying vegetables in the local market. The gunmen took Winiger's pistol and wallet and fled on motorcycles with two other men who served as lookouts.

Cabico says the 47-year-old served as a military intelligence agent and was an anti-communist crusader who had organized local tribesmen to fight the rebel New People's Army.

Regional military spokesman Col. Leopoldo Galon says Winiger's plantation hires former rebels.

Cabico says Winiger is of Swiss descent and was born in the Philippines. (AP)

Pacquiao files P75-M libel suit vs Gensan-based journalist

GENERAL SANTOS CITY -- Boxing icon and Sarangani Representative Emmanuel "Manny" Pacquiao filed a libel case against a chapter chairman of the National Union of Journalists in the Philippines here.

Pacquiao, the boxing champion is seeking P75 million in damages against Edwin G. Espejo, chair of the NUJP in South Cotabato, Sarangani and General Santos City.

Espejo writes for the Asian Correspondent. He also maintains a column called "Pacquiao Watch" and Southern Comfort. He was former editor-in-chief of Sun.Star General Santos.

Pacquiao's case stemmed from the recent articles of Espejo, which appeared at online news outfits Asian Correspondent and MindaNews.

At the Asian Correspondent, the piece was titled "Stolen car dealer finds refuge in Pacman mansion," while MindaNews titled it "Dealer of stolen cars last seen in Pacman mansion."

Dalagitang hinalay umano bago pinatay sa Los Baños, inilibing na

2 suspek, hirap matimbog dahil may mga kaanak daw na opisyal ng baranggay

Batang lalaki na namitas ng prutas sa Quezon, tinaga sa ulo

8-anyos na bata, patay matapos tamaan ng boga sa Zamboanga

6 killed in robbery, shootout in Panabo

MANILA -- Six people, including a police senior inspector, were killed and another was injured in a robbery and shootout in Panabo City on Tuesday afternoon.

Southern Mindanao regional police spokesperson Senior Inspector Gretchin Cinco said two robbers, aboard a motorcycle, swooped down at Yidong Agri Supply at Purok Avocado in Cagangohan village around 1 p.m.

The store is owned and operated by a Filipino-Chinese businessman, Leo Apalie.

Cinco said the robbers, including one Dexter Marcellones, shot and killed the store's security guard and driver – Edgar Mocos and Allen Jones Polo, respectively – and wounding warehouseman Darios Pilitos.

She said Panabo City policemen immediately responded to the scene but the suspects opened fire at the lawmen upon arrival, killing Senior Inspector Rene Angelo Alampa.

"The police companions of police senior inspector Alampay engaged the suspects in a shootout resulting in the death of the two suspects," said Cinco, adding that one Irene Zamora was also killed in the shootout. (VR/Sunnex)

CCTV, nakatulong sa imbestigasyon ng ilang krimen at aksidente

How CCTV can help solve crime!

Tricycle driver, patay sa pamamaril sa Luzon Ave Quezon City

2 suspek sa pagnanakaw ng LPG sa Nueva Ecija, huli sa CCTV

Nakunang 2 lalaking sakay ang motorsiklo, pinaniniwalaang suspek sa pagpatay kay Peñaranda

Given Grace burial: ‘No goodbye, just good night’

BINANGONAN, Rizal—The scene was described in two words—unimaginable and overwhelming.
“It is beyond imagination to think that such a girl died of a senseless death,” said Pastor Elmer Tinio of the Darangan Fellowship Church here during Mass for the burial on Tuesday of Given Grace Cebanico.

Tinio said the number of mourners from the church, high school and college classmates “and even those who were merely sharing the grief of the family was overwhelming.”
“She is truly loved by many and will be missed by many,” said Tinio.

“Don’t bid her goodbye. Just tell her good night and we’ll see her again in the presence of God,” said Bishop Tendero of the Philippine Evangelical Church of Christ in his message to Cebanico’s family and friends.

The remains of Given Grace, a student of the University of the Philippines Los Baños, were buried at the Sto. Rosario Memorial Park in her hometown.

Sex assaults heat up during Valentine month

THE Philippine National Police (PNP) have recorded 17 rape-slay cases in the country, mostly from the provinces of Laguna and Bulacan in February, the so-called month of hearts.

Fresh from the list is the case of 14-year-old Rochelle Geronda of Los Baños, Laguna who was found Thursday morning dead and naked with several stab wounds in her body.

Los Baños officials offered P50,000 bounty for the arrest of the sex fiend who remains on the loose.
Yesterday, the corpse of 18 year-old Maricris Martin was also found bloodied and naked in Tarlac.

Police later arrested the suspect, the victim’s stepfather.

PNP records show that of the 17 rape-slay cases, eight were from Bulacan and two were recorded in Laguna.

Bulacan-PNP officials said that they would intensify their coordination with village officials to ease the long list of such cases in their area.

PNP chief Director General Nicanor Bartolome said they will implement extensive roving during night time especially in dark places and directed his men in to be alert 24/7.

Women’s rights advocates yesterday expressed alarm over the lengthening list of rape-slay cases in the country.

Gabriela Secretary General Joms Salvador they will push for the amendments to the Anti-Rape Law.

“This is so alarming. As poverty grows intense, the more these cases against women manifest (Habang tumitindi ang kahirapan, lalong nagma-manifest ang mga ganitong kaso kontra kababaihan.) I think we should push some amendments of the current law.” Salvador said.

Chinabank employee shot dead in Sto Cristo Binondo Manila. Edwin Lao

MANILA, Philippines—A 36-year-old bank employee was shot dead by one of two motorcycle-riding men in Binondo, Manila Tuesday morning, the police said.

SPO4 Alberto Mapilisan, of the Manila Police District Meisic station 11, said Edwin Lao, an employee of Chinabank Binondo branch, was shot once in the head by the assailant at around 9 a.m.

Lao died about two hours later while undergoing treatment at the Metropolitan Hospital.

Mapilisan said Lao was already at work and had momentarily stepped out of the bank, located along Sto.

Cristo Street corner Commercio, to retrieve something from his parked car when the motorcycle riders approached him.

The police officer said the gunman shot Lao and immediately fled with his accomplice onboard the motorcycle.
MPD police were still conducting follow-up operations to determine motive behind the killing and track down the assailants.

By Jeannette I. Andrade

Bank teller shot and wounded in Manila. Edwin Lao

MANILA, Philippines—A bank teller was wounded Tuesday after still unidentified suspects on board a motorcycle shot him in Binondo, Manila, a report from Radyo Inquirer 990AM said.

According to the report, Edwin Lao, 37, a teller from China Bank located along Sto. Kristo Street in Binondo, Manila, was rushed to Mother and Child Hospital after sustaining a gunshot wound to the head fired by two still unidentified suspects riding on a black motorcycle around 8:40 a.m.

The victim was about to enter the bank when he was shot by the suspects, the report said, quoting an initial investigation by police.

An empty shell from a caliber .45 pistol was recovered at the crime scene, Senior Police Officer 4 Alberto Matulisan of the Binondo police said.

He said police were conducting further investigation to identify the suspects and determine the motive behind the attack. Report From Erwin Aguilon, Radyo Inquirer 990AM

UPDATE
http://crimesph.blogspot.com/2012/03/bank-employee-shot-dead-in-manila-edwin.html

By Jamie Marie Elona

2 suspected salvage victims dumped in Rizal

March 6, 2012 8:03am
Police are now investigating the death of two suspected victims of summary execution, whose bodies were handcuffed and dumped in Rodriguez town before dawn Tuesday.

Rodriguez police chief Senior Superintendent Donato Bait said the victims—a man and a woman—appeared to have been killed elsewhere then dumped in the town.

"Nakaposas ang dalawa nang ni-report sa atin ... Magkasama sila," he said in an interview on dzBB radio.

He said they learned of the bodies at 4 a.m. The bodies were found at the zigzag road in San Jose village, near the boundary of Rodriguez town and Quezon City.

Bait did not immediately comment on whether the two bore marks of torture.

However, he said the area where the two bodies were dumped was a dark one.

"Bulubundukin na zigzag. Madilim ang area," he said. –KG, GMA News

Indignation rally ng mga UPLB students vs sunod-sunod na krimen sa paligid ng campus

Magkasintahang nag-Checx in Sa Hotel Natagpuan Duguan; lalaki,patay

Queensland Hotel.
February 24 2010

7-anyos na batang babae, natagpuang patay sa isang sapa sa Parañaque

SUV, tinangay sa Times Street malapit sa tirahan ni PNoy

Teenage sampaguita vendor raped, killed in Laguna

MANILA, Philippines – A 14-year-old sampaguita vendor was found dead in Los Baños, Laguna on Wednesday morning.

The victim, identified as Rochel Geronda, was found dead in a banana plantation in Barangay Batong Malaki. Her jogging pants were found coiled around her neck, leading police to suspect that she was killed by strangling.

Los Baños Police chief Superintendent Dante Novicio said the victim may have also been raped, since her underwear was discovered to have been pulled down.

Geronda’s body will undergo autopsy to determine the real cause of her death, and if she was raped.

The police declined to divulge other details on the case while investigation is ongoing.

Geronda’s mother said the victim, a 1st year high school student at Batong Malaki National High School, was supposed to go to the Internet shop on the day she went missing.

Geronda’s mother said the victim worked as a sampaguita vendor during her free time to support the expenses of her 7 siblings.

The victim’s family also appealed for the victim’s killer to surrender to authorities.

Last October, a rape-slay incident also occurred in Los Baños which involved UP student Given Grace Cebanico. The suspects in the rape-slay were later arrested. – with a report from Ronilo Dagos, dzMM

UPLB student slain after failed hold-up

 MANILA, Philippines –- A BS Agriculture student of the University of the Philippines-Los Baños (UPLB) died after being stabbed in the chest by robbers outside of the campus early Sunday morning.

The victim, identified as Ray Bernard Peñaranda, was declared dead on arrival at the Los Baños Doctors Hospital and Medical Center.

According to Supt. Dante Novicio of the UPLB Police Force, Peñaranda and one of his friends were on their way back to their apartment following a dance practice inside the UPLB campus.

They were stopped by two robbers near FO Santos street and Peñaranda was stabbed by one of the suspects after he refused to hand over his things.

The UPLB Student Council, meanwhile, will hold an indignation rally to call for justice for Peñaranda. – Report from Dennis Datu, dzMM.

Wanted Dead or Alive : PO1 Ernesto Binayug Jr.

Wanted Dead or Alive: PO1 Ernesto Binayug Jr. -

Murderer of Filipino Chinese Businesswoman Haidee Hsu,

Please share and help to report to authorities whereabouts of this person.

Considered Armed and Dangerous.

Shoot-to-kill order issued for cop in Binondo robbery

A shoot-to-kill order has been issued  against a policeman charged with staging a robbery last week where a Chinese woman was killed and two of her kin were wounded.

The order was issued by Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim in case PO1 Ernesto Binayug Jr.,   who has been tagged as “armed and dangerous,” would resist arrest.

Binayug, who has only been in the service for two years and was  assigned at  the National Capital Region Police Office Regional Police Safety Battalion, is a cousin of former MPD Asuncion police station community precinct commander Insp. Joselito Binayug.

Ernesto Binayug and three other men were identified as the motorcycle-riding robbers who allegedly tried to rob  businesswoman Heidi Hsu in Binondo on Jan. 11.

Hsu was shot dead, while  her younger brother Herbert and 67-year-old father Tony  were wounded when they came to her aid.

The policeman was identified after he was seen in a closed circuit television  camera footage of the group’s flight from the crime scene.

He is also a suspect in the robbery at the Hsu family’s onion wholesale and retail store in November last year.

“We are asking him to surrender as promised by his mother, but he has not surfaced since Thursday,” Lim  told reporters in a press conference yesterday.

Tracker teams that have fanned out to different areas looking for the suspect said Binayug had not been going home and no longer reports for duty.

Apart from Binayug, Lim included his three alleged  cohorts in his “shoot-to-kill order,” in case of armed resistance.

Two of them remain unidentified while the other was identified only through his alias “Mac.”

By Jeannette I. Andrade

Teen girl raped by boyfriend, 6 others in Camotes island

A 16-year-old girl accused her boyfriend and six other men of raping her along a shoreline in Poro town of Camotes Island, Cebu.

The girl’s boyfriend Jemar Naya, his older brother Relwin Naya and Gemar Gubalani were arrested by police shortly after the rape was reported.

Four other men remain at large.

Police said the suspects are  between 20 and 25 years old.

The girl told police that she and her boyfriend went to the shore last Thursday night
While they were having sex, six other men arrived and took turns in raping her.

The girl reported the abuse to the police station.  She was brought to a Cebu City hospital for examination.  She said the offenders burned her private parts with a lighted cigarette.

Insp. Bernabe Cuyoca, chief of the Poro police,  and his men arrested three supsects.

Cuyoca said investigators are  waiting for the result of the medical examination for the filing of charges.

Police said it was possible that the suspects were high on drugs or under the influence of alchol when the abuse took place./CORRESPONDENT GABRIEL C.

Laundry shop owner killed; wife, child’s nanny stabbed by robbers inside home

MANILA, Philippines – The 35-year-old owner of a laundry shop was stabbed to death while his wife and his son’s nanny were wounded when four men, who posed as maintenance workers, robbed his home-based store and attacked them when they tried to fight off the burglars in Manila early Tuesday.

The robbers took off with the shop’s measly earnings and the couple Kelvin and Charlene Chioa’s jewelry, aboard the victims’ white Toyota Corolla (UNV-106), bringing along the Chioas’ four-year-old son, before ditching both the car and the child several blocks away from the laundry shop.

Kelvin was killed instantly from a dozen knife wounds in the body while his 32-year-old wife Charlene has been confined at the Metropolitan Hospital, after she sustained a stab wound in the back.

Their son’s 25-year-old nanny, Maricel Librando, remains in critical condition at the same hospital after she was stabbed several times in the body while protecting her ward.

Senior Inspector Joselito De Ocampo, head of the Manila Police District (MPD) homicide section, said that the robbery and homicide happened at around 4 a.m. on Tuesday, inside the Bull’s Eye Laundry Shop at 1604 Yakal Street in Tondo.

2 backrider gi hit and run

PULOS nilanding sa balay tambalanan ang duha ka mga backrider kinsa nabanggaan sa managlahing dapit denhi sa siyudad sa Cagayan de Oro.

Giila ang unang biktima nga mao si Aldrich D. Santillan, 14, taga Phase 2, Area-4, Creek Side, Macanhan ning siyudad sa Cagayan de Oro.

Mga alas 11:30 sa gabii niadtong nilabayng adlaw samtang ang biktima nag-angkas sa motorsiklo ug anaa na sila niadtong tungora sa Rodelsa Circle nga bahin ning siyudad dihang kalit lang kining nabanggaan sa wala mailang sakyanan.

Tungod sa kakusog sa impak nabunal ang biktima ug nahulog sa motorsiko. Maayo na lamang usa ka nagkabanang lalaki nga sakay sa laing multicab ang nitabang sa biktima ug maoy nidala niini sa Northern Mindanao Medical Center (NMMC).

Ang mga kauban niini maoy nagpatabang sa kapolisan sa Police Station 1 (PS1) sa Divisoria.

Ubos pa sa obserbasyon sa mga doktor ang biktima tungod kay hangtod sa pagsulat ning balita dili pa kini makasulti tungod sa mga samad nga naangkon.

Laing backrider sa motorsiklo ang nabundol sa taxi mga alas 3:30 sa hapon adlawng Miyerkules sa Kinasanghan, lungsod sa Opol, Misamis Oriental.

Giila ang biktima nga mao si Phebe M. Labrada, 56, taga Poblacion, lungsod sa El Salvador Misamis Oriental.

Nasayran nga nag-angkas ang biktima sa motorsiklo nga gimaneho sa iyang bana dihang kalit lang nga gibanggaan sa taxi ang likod ug kilid nga bahin mireulta sa pagkaipit ug pagkaigo sa wala nga bahin sa tiil sa biktima. Daw human sa insidente misibat ang taxi.

Igo na lamang sa pagpatambal ang biktima sa NMMC samtang ang bana niini maoy nagpablotter sa Opol Police Station kalabot sa insidente. (SVB)

Mga polis blangko pa sa kasong pagpatay

DUHA ka semana na ang nilabay apan blangko pa gihapon ang kapolisan sa Tagoloan Police Station kalabot sa pagpatay sa usa ka lalaki nga nakapalgan sa Barangay Sta. Cruz susamang lungsod.

Si Senior Police Officer 4 Renerio Cabanez sa Tagoloan Police Station nga nahinabi sa Sun.Star SuperBalita niingon nga blangko pa gihapon sila sa responsabli sa pagpatay sa naila lamang sa ngalan hangtod ning panahona nga usa ka Alyas Bobong.

Gani wala pa gihapon kini niclaim sa punerarya nga nahimutangan niini sa maong lungsod.

Igo lamang kining giila sa higala niini human kini si Bobong duha pa ka semana gikan nag-abang sa usa ka balay sa Aplaya, lungsod sa Jasaan, Misamis Oriental.

Dako ang pagduda sa kapolisan nga adunay mga ilegal nga kalambigitan ang biktima tungod sa mga nakuhang gamit niini sa bulsa dihang narespondehan sa hitabo. Adunay bonnet ug namatikdan nga kanunay kining magdala og kutsilyo.

Si Alyas Bobong nakitang patay na niadtong Pebrero 20, ning tuig sa kasagbutan nga bahin sa maong dapit. Nakumpirma sa pagsusi-susi sa Scene of Crimes Operatives (Soco) nga aduna kini 14 ka mga samad dinunggaban sa lawas.

Hangtod sa pagsulat ning balita wala pay pamilya nga nakabisita sa presintuhan ingon man pag claim sa patayng lawas sa biktima.

Gipatik sa mantalaang SuperBalita Cagayan de Oro Marso 02, 2012.

Ni Stephanie Viovicente-Berganio

Korean nabbed for roughing up woman

Policemen arrested Friday evening a Korean national for allegedly hurting a 22-year-old woman he had offered to pay for sex at a hotel.

Nam Jae Kim, 51, of Makati City, was also charged with possession of illegal drug paraphernalia when operatives of the Manila Police District (MPD) Malate station 9 found him allegedly holding a piece of aluminum foil with a white powdery substance.

SPO1 Donald Panaligan, of the MPD General Assignment Section (GAS), said the woman told him that she met Kim along Salas Street in Ermita.

The Korean national allegedly offered her P3,000 for sex, to which she agreed.

Indian tourist robbed Sampaloc City

An Indian tourist fell prey Saturday noon to thieves who stole close to P100,000 worth of electronic gadgets and different foreign currencies from her at a fastfood restaurant in Manila.

It took only seconds for the suspects to swipe the foreigner’s bag from under her although she was surrounded by several Filipino companions. Sweata Rungta, 37,  who runs an Indonesia-based flower dealership business, filed yesterday a theft complaint before the Manila Police District General Assignment Section (MPD-GAS).

Five hurt in Caloocan grenade blast

At least five people were reported hurt after an unidentified man threw a grenade in their direction in Caloocan City Saturday night.

The incident occurred at about 10 p.m. in the Libis Camarin area in Caloocan City, according to a report on dzBB radio early Sunday.

The injured were initially identified as Genelyn Tuala, Rosalyn Pabillar, Rodel Macario, Marlyn Velarde, and Gwendolyn Cuneta.

The victims were rushed to the East Avenue Medical Center and Tala Hospital, the report said.

Authorities are still gathering leads on the suspect as well as the motive for the attack. — LBG, GMA News

Cebu Card ‘hacker’ gets arrested

DID something suspicious happen to your credit card account lately? You might want to check with your bank.

Law enforcers arrested a 25-year-old suspected credit card hacker during an entrapment in Barangay Punta Princesa, Cebu City late Thursday afternoon, saying he had illegally charged purchases to a doctor’s card.

Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) 7 operatives arrested Jerwin Minglanilla of Talisay City outside a fast food chain on F. Llamas St. at 4 p.m.

Minglanilla allegedly broke into Dr. Wilson de la Calzada’s credit card account and charged P72,523 in discounted online plane tickets, which he then sold.

The doctor noticed the fraud last Feb. 12 after he received a text message from the bank, thanking him for using the credit card.

He tried to check his balance by logging into the bank’s website, but was prevented by technical problems. He also phoned and inquired with the bank.

Calzada made another inquiry last Feb. 28 and discovered his balance ballooned, mostly due to purchases of tickets particularly from Air Philippines.

He asked the law enforcement agency for help.

A team led by Chief Insp. Fermin Armendarez III of CIDG 7 proceeded to the Mactan International Airport at 10 a.m. last Thursday in coordination with the Police Center for Aviation Security (PCAS).

Through the help of Air Philippines Visayas Head Rene Aviles, who was warned about the incident, law enforcers were able to hold off a family that bought the low-priced tickets.

They were bound for Manila for a family reunion. The tickets, which were sold at P500 each, came to them through a friend’s recommendation.

In order to trace the suspect, one of the family members called the suspect and pretended he needed two more tickets.

They met outside the fast food chain, while law enforcers waited inside a tinted vehicle.

When the money was handed over, the suspect was immediately taken into custody. His right hand had traces of the ultraviolet powder dusted on the cash used during the transaction.

Confiscated from the suspect’s possession were several credit card application forms of different banks.

Photocopies of credit cards belonging to other persons were also recovered.

During tactical interrogation, Minglanilla claimed he was able to obtain information about the doctor by surfing online.

Only five personal details are reportedly needed so he could hack into a person’s account.

Armendarez said that the suspect was believed to belong to a group of six, specializing in cyber-thefts.

He added that Minglanilla was reportedly a former protégé of Edgar Largo, who was also arrested last January for a similar crime.

Largo, however, went scot-free after his complainant failed to press charges against him.

This is the second incident of data theft in Cebu City recorded this year.

“I urge those people who suspect they have been victimized by this kind of crime to show up in our office,” Armendarez said.

Sun.Star Cebu caught up with Minglanilla as he talked with his mother inside the law enforcement agency’s detention cell yesterday.

Her mother said she was shocked by her son’s arrest.

“Wala gyud ko magdahum (I had no idea),” she said.

Criminal complaints for violating the Access Devices Regulation Act of 1998 or Republic Act 8484 and estafa will be filed against the suspect.

During a security convention last year, Senior Supt. Gilbert Sosa, chief of the anti-transnational crime division of the Criminal and Investigation Detection Group (CIDG), said that a recent fraud scheme involves a criminal gaining access to an unsuspecting user’s e-mail or social networking account.

Based on a report from January to August last year, 40 walk-in complaints involving social networking sites were recorded by the CIDG.

Fraud and identity theft had the highest numbers, at 12 and 10 complaints, respectively.

As part of their intensified efforts against cyber criminals, Sosa said a digital forensic laboratory will soon rise in Cebu City. He said they already trained police personnel on how to handle and preserve digital information.

Published in the Sun.Star Cebu newspaper on March 03, 2012.

By Davinci S. Maru

MICT Customs collector shot, wounded

A DISTRICT collector at the Mindanao International Container Terminal (MICT) in Tagoloan town, Misamis Oriental, was wounded after he was shot by two suspects riding in a motorcycle Thursday night along Kauswagan junction in Cagayan de Oro.

Superintendent Salvador Radam, station commander of Carmen Police Station, said the victim, lawyer Enerlito G. Aquino, sustained a gunshot wound in his left arm from a caliber .45 pistol.

Aquino was rushed to a nearby hospital by a concerned citizen and is now reportedly out of danger.

Police said Aquino was on his way home to Xavier Estates on board his red Mitsubishi Pajero around 8:30 p.m. Thursday when the suspects shot him at close range while in an intersection.

Radam said the suspects, who were on board a red motorcycle, stopped beside Aquino’s vehicle when the traffic light turned red and shot him.

Aquino told police investigators that the suspects did not cover their face but were wearing a cap.

He failed, however, to take note of the motorcycle’s plate number.

Radam said they have yet to establish the motive of the incident but police believed it is work-related and has something to do with the anti-smuggling campaign of the MICT.

He said Aquino mentioned that the attempt may be because of his strict implementation of the bureau’s policy and the disclosure of several smuggled items in the past few months at the container terminal.

“Maybe, he had stepped on someone because of his strict management,” Radam said.

Police authorities are still conducting deeper investigation on the case.

Published in the Sun.Star Cagayan de Oro newspaper on March 03, 2012.

By Annabelle L. Ricalde

Ceneco Hold-up well-planned, organized

THE suspects in the Central Negros Electric Cooperative (Ceneco) robbery seem to be familiar with the office. They knew where to go because they immediately went inside the cashier's office. They have executed the heist without panic, without intention to hurt or kill those inside, an official said.

Ceneco president Atty. Arnel Lapore made the statement Friday about the brazen broad daylight robbery, which divested Ceneco of P3.6 million in just two to three minutes.

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Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO) Director Ricardo dela Paz corroborated Lapore’s statement in a separate interview.

“It seems that they have the blueprint of the structure of the Ceneco building or there’s somebody who possibly gave them the information,” said Dela Paz.

The robbers knew the number of guards on duty and their respective posts; they knew where the main entrance and exit of the Ceneco main office; and they knew the entrance and exit gates of the Ceneco compound.

The suspects also knew that there are no CCTV cameras, which can help identify them.

They knew that the day’s collection is kept overnight in a safe in the main office and they also knew where the vault is. They knew what time the armored car and armed guards of Ceneco’s depository bank would pick up the collection.

Moreover, they knew that, during the early office hours of March 2, there would be only a few employees in the cashiers’ area because most of the employees would be at the building’s upper floor attending the traditional First Friday mass.

Lapore said the robbers were precise in their moves that the security guards inside and outside the main office were quickly disarmed.

Lapore also disclosed that Ceneco officials had already addressed the installation of CCTV camera last December yet. However, the installation was delayed.

He explained that, when Friday’s heist occurred, the guards of Villmapi and Life Guard security agencies had just replaced the personnel of JJL and New Vita security agencies.

The installation of the CCTV is part of the package of the newly hired security agencies to enhance the security measures in Ceneco, said Lapore.

Villmapi and Life Guard were supposed to take-over the electric coop’s security last January 16. However, the take-over was delayed because a Temporary Restraining Order was issued by a local court, which effectively stalled the change of security agencies.

Lapore ordered Friday the new security agencies to put up the CCTV camera within three days.

He added that they are also conducting an internal investigation to determine if their security guards have committed lapses.

Lapore could not conclude yet that the heist was an inside job, though he admitted that it was an awakening and learning experience.

Lapore appealed to the public to inform the police of any information, which can lead to the identification of the suspect.

Ceneco also mulls coming up with a cash reward for any information that can lead to the apprehension of the suspects, Lapore added.

Obviously an Inside Job.

3 Rizal inmates doing errands for cops outside jail arrested

MANILA, Philippines - Three inmates facing illegal drug cases were arrested Thursday while doing “errands” for policemen outside the Binangonan municipal jail in Rizal.

Inmates Jaime Gomez and Mark Sison were gassing up a motorcycle owned by a local policeman when cornered by a team headed by Senior Superintendent Rolando Anduyan, Rizal police director.

A third inmate, Michael Gabriel, was tracked down by Anduyan doing “electrical work” at the house under construction of PO2 Ghazali Bantao.

Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Director General Nicanor Bartolome immediately ordered the relief of Chief Inspector Edcil Canals, Binangonan police chief, and five of his men.

Bartolome directed Anduyan to file charges of infidelity in the custody of a prisoner and serious neglect of duty against Canals and his men.

Gomez, Sison and Gabriel were all detained at the Binangonan municipal jail for illegal drug cases.

Bartolome ordered their arrest after a television station’s spy camera caught them doing errands outside the jail for local policemen.

According to Anduyan, Gomez and Sison left the Binangonan jail at around 1 p.m. Thursday onboard a motorcycle owned by a local policeman.

When cornered, Gomez had a replica of a.38-caliber revolver tucked in his waist.

Both Gomez and Sison claimed they were out to buy rice for the consumption of the local police and inmates.

Anduyan immediately conducted a headcount of the 32 inmates at the jail. Gabriel was found missing and Anduyan traced him to Bantao’s house in Barangay Darangan.

“This practice have been going on for the past few years and even Canals, who occupied his post last January, was shocked by the incident,” said Anduyan in an interview.

Canals was replaced by Chief Inspector Bartolome Marigondon.

By Non Alquitran

Butchered bodies dumped in Camanava

MANILA, Philippines - The bodies of two men were dumped in Caloocan City and Navotas City yesterday.

Chief Inspector Ronald Perilla, Caloocan Police Substation 5 commander, said a man’s torso was dumped behind the barangay hall of Barangay 172 in Camarin.

The torso, wrapped in garbage bags, was found by Moneth Figueroa, a teacher at the nearby Urduja High School at around 6:20 a.m. in a canal at the back of the barangay hall.

“Fresh blood was still dripping from the garbage bags when the body part was found. Beside it was a cardboard with a written message ‘Mabuhay ang Tau Gama. Hindi mo kaya si Makaw (Long live Tau Gama. You can’t take on Makaw),’” Perilla told The STAR.

Perilla said the victim’s head, arms and legs were “cut clean” and the skin on his chest and back had been scraped clean of tattoos.

“Who ever did this wicked act appeared to be an expert in butchery. They even literally erased the victim’s tattoos in order to make him more difficult to identify,” Perilla said.

Perilla said that the victim could be in his early 30s.

According to Senior Police Officer 1 Allan Budeos, the area where the victim’s body was thrown is isolated and dimly lit. He said they are still coordinating with officials of adjacent barangays to help them look for the missing parts of the victim’s body.

In Navotas City, the body of Noel Macaraya, 24, a resident of Barangay Tangos, was found along the bank of a river on C-4 Road at about 7 a.m.

PO1 Joel Javier said Macaraya sustained several stab and hack wounds in different parts of his body. He bore a gaping wound in the nape that almost severed his head.

Witnesses told police that Macaraya, a welder, was last seen at around midnight drinking with three men while attending the wake of a relative in Barangay North Bay Boulevard North.

Navotas police chief Senior Superintendent Florendo Quibuyen directed his men yesterday to arrest Macaraya’s killers.

By Jerry Botial and Pete Laude

3 cops, house owner swap raps over rob suspect's escape

MANILA, Philippines - Three policemen and a man whose house they barged into while they were chasing a suspected robber have filed charges against each other following the suspect’s escape Thursday afternoon.

Police Officers 1 Elmer Putoy, Crispin Cartajenas, and Carlo Carullo – accompanied by victim Fernan Necasito – were reportedly pursuing a snatcher.

Necasito lost his shoulder bag contained his cell phone and P5,000 during a robbery along Commonwealth Avenue Thursday afternoon. The three policemen chased a suspect, who they saw run into Jessie Tolentino’s house, which had the front door locked. The suspect escaped.

Senior Inspector Roberto Razon said Tolentino filed a violation of domicile complaint against the three policemen, who in turn filed obstruction of justice charges against Tolentino.

By Reinir Padua 

14 CIDG cops sacked over P1.5-M extortion

MANILA, Philippines - Criminal Investigation and Detection Group chief Director Samuel Pagdilao Jr. relieved yesterday 14 CIDG police officers accused of extorting P1.5 million from a Chinese man in Manila.

He ordered the transfer of Chief Inspectors Teodulo Armanda, Bienvenido Reydado and Fernando Reyes; Senior Police Officers 3 Rosauro Almonte and Leandro Santos; SPO2 Juancho Medalla, Victor Dimaano, and Eduardo Liwanagan; SPO1 Veronica Villareal; PO3 William Geneblaso, Sitti Usman, Glicerio Encela, and Alfredo Bautista; and PO2 Joven de la Cruz to the CIDG’s maintenance and technical service division to allow for an impartial investigation.

The 14 policemen, all from the CIDG’s Anti-Fraud and Commercial Crime Division (AFCCD), allegedly arrested Edwin Tan Ngie in Ongpin last Feb. 23 on false drugs charges, and brought him to Camp Crame and forced him to pay P1.5 million for his release.

AFCCD personnel were also involved in the alleged extortion of a Singaporean national recently.

Pagdilao designated Superintendent Benjamin Acorda, the former chief of the 4B Regional Criminal Investigation and Detection Group, as the new head of the AFCCD. Pagdilao directed Acorda to cleanse the AFCCD’s ranks.

Only in the Philippines where people are afraid of Cops not because they will catch criminals but because they are the ones who rob or extort money from rich people, they are the LEGAL CRIMINALS in the Philippines. Better be careful with the cops when you have a big business because they will come to your doors and knock to ask for money.

PNP: It's more fun and safe in Phl ??? - BULLSHIT

MANILA, Philippines - It’s not only more fun but also more safe in the Philippines, according to the Philippine National Police (PNP) that yesterday unveiled its new slogan to entice local and foreign tourists to explore the country this summer.

The PNP jazzed up the new country brand of the Department of Tourism - “It’s more fun in the Philippines” with “It’s more safe in the Philippines” campaign.

“The PNP’s ‘It’s more safe in the Philippines’ campaign will be launched soon. Based on the continuous decrease in crime volume, it’s really more safe in the Philippines,” PNP spokesperson Chief Superintendent Agrimero Cruz Jr. told The STAR.

Cruz said the campaign is proof that the police force is ready to serve and protect tourists as ordered by PNP chief Director General Nicanor Bartolome.

The PNP is set to activate its “Oplan Summer Vacation 2012” to secure the millions of vacationing students and foreigners who are expected to flock to the country’s scenic spots for their summer vacation.

Reported to be among the most visited tourist sites in the country are Boracay, Puerto Princesa Underground River, and the various beaches in Luzon and Mindanao.

In line with their Oplan Summer Vacation 2012 campaign, the PNP will deploy additional police officers in bus stations, seaports, and airports to protect tourists from criminals wanting to take advantage of them.

By Cecille Suerte Felipe 

Anyone living or have stayed in the Philippines for more than a month knows that the Philippines is a very dangerous country to live in. There are so many pick pockets, snatcher, hold up, salisi gang, rapist, swindlers, murderer and so on in the Philippines. And some of the Police/NBI will actually rob or kidnap you for money. 

4 killed, 8 injured in Jolo bombing

ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines—At least four persons were killed and eight others injured when an improvised explosive device went off in downtown Jolo, capital of Sulu province, at 6:55 p.m. Saturday, the military’s Western Mindanao Command said.

Colonel Randolph Cabangbang said the bomb was placed  in an electric power generator just outside the door of the Cleopatra Commercial Store on Serantes Street.

A police report to the seat of government of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao in Cotabato City initially reported that two persons were killed and that the blast occurred at 7:10 p.m.

The identity of the perpetrators and their motive could not be ascertained immediately, Cabangbang said.
No other details were available.

By Julie Alipala and Edwin Fernandez

Man just laid off work hangs self

MANILA, Philippines – Driven to desperation after losing his job, a young man was found hanging inside his house in Quezon City by neighbors who wanted to watch TV with him, police said.

Nicanor Adduru, 24, was cut down from his noose of a blanket tied to a pipe and was rushed to a hospital on Friday night but died enroute.

Case investigator Senior Police Officer 2 Roldan Dapat said the victim, a marketing specialist, had planned his suicide, judging from several letters strewn inside his house in Barangay Bagong Silangan. Dapat learned that Adduru was laid off from work two weeks ago.

Adduru’s neighbors were kind enough to share their meals with him while the landlord let him stay rent-free until he got back on his feet.

Adduru was discovered hanging from the ceiling on the second floor of his house near the staircase by two neighbors, Blancaver and Marian Prejula.

The two women told police that at around 7:30 p.m., they dropped by Adduru’s house to ask if they could  watch TV inside his home.

But upon reaching his door, they noticed through the windows that someone appeared to be hanging from the ceiling.

The neighbors forced the door open and found  Adduru, gasping.

This prompted the women to cut him down and rush him to the Fairview General Hospital but he died on the way.

Dapat noted that the suicide letters conveyed Adduru’s gratitude to his friends and family for their support after the victim lost his job.

By Julie M. Aurelio

Cop, 2 others nabbed in Surigao drug bust

MANILA, Philippines—A police officer and two other persons suspected of pushing illegal drugs were arrested in a buy-bust operation in Surigao City earlier this week, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency said on Saturday.

Arrested were Police Officer 1 Richborn M. Cagas, 35; Joeffrey V. Ensinada, 30, a suspected operator of a drug den; and Pebi Greg L. Misa, 30, all residents of Surigao City.

In a statement, PDEA Director General Jose S. Gutierrez Jr. said PDEA agents, along with other law enforcement units, conducted the operation last Monday inside Ensinada’s house in  Barangay Washington that was allegedly being used as a drug den.

The suspect allegedly sold a plastic sachet of shabu, or methamphetamine hydrochloride, to an undercover agent, and further body search on Ensinada yielded another sachet. Cagas and Misa were inside the house when the transaction took place, prompting the authorities to arrest them as well, the PDEA said.

Also recovered during the operation were drug paraphernalia and the cell phone used for drug transactions.
The suspects are detained at the PDEA region 13 detention facility, and they will face charges of violations of Sections 5 (sale of dangerous drugs), 6 (maintenance of a den), 7 (visitors of a den), and 11 (possession of dangerous drugs), of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.

By DJ Yap

7-anyos na bata, nalunod matapos itulak umano sa dagat ng rubgy boys

Car wash boy stabbed! Caught on CCTV Camera

Reporter: Mark Zambrano

Criminology student na suspek sa kasong pagpatay, arestado sa Malabon

The suspect was caught on Catmon Malabon city. Suspect in crime of killing in Lauan Antique in 2011.

Reporter: Emil Sumangil

Pananagasa umano ng lalaki sa kapatid, huli sa CCTV

Reporter: Saleema Refran

MANILA, Philippines—A 55-year-old engineer was severely injured Friday night when an Asian Utility Vehicle driven by his own brother, also an engineer, ran over him for at least three consecutive times in Mandaluyong City, police said.

According to Senior Police Officer 1 Disilito Custodio, Crisostomo Reyes had to be rushed to the nearby Dr. Victor R. Potenciano Medical Center sustaining severe injuries in the left leg.

As of mid-afternoon Saturday, Custodio said, Reyes remained confined in the hospital.

“We haven’t been able to talk to him yet because of his condition,” the police officer told the Inquirer.

According to initial investigation, Reyes was checking the engine of his motorcycle in front of his house on Calbayog Street  in Barangay Highway Hills around 6:30 p.m.

His younger brother, Francisco Reyes, 49, was nearby at that time since he lived only a few meters away from the victim, Custodio said.

According to witnesses, after a few minutes, they saw the younger Reyes get inside his blue FX (UTH 143), and, suddenly, without any provocation, speed toward the direction of his brother.

Custodio said that the victim did not have time to react since the incident happened very fast.

After running over his elder brother once, the younger Reyes  backed the vehicle up a bit and ran over him a second time. Custodio said that the younger Reyes did the same for a third, and possibly, a fourth time.

Although investigators said it was unclear what the primary cause for the incident was, people living in the area told police that the two brothers had been embroiled in a fight for quite some time. Custodio speculated that sibling rivalry was a factor in the brothers’ “deeply-seated grudge” against each other.

“Both are engineers, so that is a possibility,” he said.

Barangay officials who were making the rounds in the area managed to arrest the younger Reyes, who is now detained at the Mandaluyong City Police office awaiting the filing of frustrated homicide and malicious mischief charges, Custodio said.

By Kristine Felisse Mangunay

2 batang hamog na umano'y nambato sa bus, binugbog ng driver at konduktor

2 batang hamog na umano'y nambato sa bus, binugbog ng driver at konduktor
Date posted: Mar 2, 2012 7:51pm

Reporter: Emil Sumangil