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KIDAPAWAN CITY – Cotabato state-run college president Dr. Sam Molao is ready to face ‘serious’ charges filed against him, including alleged operation of a drug den inside the school and possession of illegal firearms, his lawyer said.Molao was not in his staff house when anti-narcotics agents conducted the raid on Monday.

BAGUMBAYAN,
Sultan Kudarat – Eight more communist rebels in Sultan Kudarat
have decided to return to the folds of the law Friday, an Army colonel today
said.

Lt. Colonel
Harold Cabunoc, commander of 33rd Infantry Battalion, said the
rebels decided to come down after getting exhausted in the military’s
relentless pursuit operations against New Peoples’ Army (NPA).

Cabunoc said
to date, a total of 111 rebels have surrendered to the 33rd IB.

KIDAPAWAN CITY ---Four persons, three of them were motorcycle drivers, died instantly when a wayward 10-wheeler truck rammed their vehicles along the national highway in Makilala, North Cotabato Thursday morning.One of the victim's body was cut into two when the truck driver, negotiating a downward portion of the national highway in Barangay Patulangon, Makilala, North Cotabato, lost control of its brake system and went wayward.The driver escaped after the incident, according to Makilala traffic office.Witnesses said it took the emergency medical staff of Kidapawan City’s Call 911 and rescu

KORONADAL CITY – A village chair in an upland town
in South Cotabato who is in the narco-list of President Duterte was arrested by
police agents Wednesday morning.

Chief Inspector Aldrin Gonzales, speaking for police
in Region 12, identified the arrested official as Pudi Udasan Ambalgan,
chairperson of Barangay Upper Sepaka, Surallah, South Cotabato.

ESPERANZA, Sultan Kudarat – A philanthropist who
wanted to make her town peaceful and progressive has built a building to be
used by law enforcers as Community Police Assistance Center (CPAC).

The building, inaugurated and officially turned over
to the Esparanza Police Office, was put up at the town’s public market to
ensure safety of market goers.

COTABATO CITY -- The military has mobilized agents to help the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency locate a government school president wanted for alleged possession of P500,000 worth of shabu.
Lt. Gen. Carlito Galvez, Jr. of the Western Mindanao Command said Tuesday they can help the police and PDEA search for Samsom Molao through intelligence support operations.
We don’t have police powers but our units can help PDEA through intelligence gathering and it is something we have been doing for quite a time now in support of Malacañang’s anti-narcotics drive, Galvez said.

KORONADAL CITY
– The long arm of the law finally catches two men long wanted for the series of
carnapping incidents in the city, police officials said.

Senior Supt.
Nelson Salcedo, acting South Cotabato police director, said Omar Alik Abdul,
28, and Marbel Ayob, 19, who were arrested Sunday night, belonged to a an
organized crime group preying on motorcycles in the city.

COTABATO CITY -- As far as the Commission on Elections in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (Comelec-ARMM), preparations for the barangay and SK elections continue, a poll official said.Lawyer Ray Sumalipao, Comelec-ARMM regional director, told DXMS Radyo Bida that as far as his office is concerned the scheduled barangay and SK elections will push through unless officially declared by Comelec national office.Last week, the Comelec through minute resolution no.

GEN. SANTOS CITY -- A police officer here is in hot water after a security guard of a casino he repeatedly threatened filed charges of grave threat, slight physical injury and grave misconduct. Police
Officer 1 Rasel Pepugal Blabagno Jr, assigned with the GenSan PoliceMobile Patrol Unit (MPU), was charged before the Office of the City
Prosecutor in General Santos City by Crispin Bello Ugalde, a

KIDAPAWAN CITY - A member of the Special Weapons and Tactics Team (SWAT) of the Kidapawan City PNP was seriously wounded when an alleged drug surrenderee shot him just as he was trying to respond to a shooting incident that transpired along the boundary of Datu Ingkal Street and Quezon Boulevard in Kidapawan City, around 10:15 p.m., Saturday.Superintendent Ramel Hojilla, Kidapawan City police director, identified the wounded SWAT member as Police Officer 3 Eric John Dado Yamuta.Hojilla, citing initial probe, said that before Yamuta's shooting, a certain Alvin Taran who is a chainsaw opera