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COTABATO CITY --- The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency is guarding tightly two high-profile detainees from whom agents recovered P5 million worth of shabu in separate dragnets this week.Large-scale drug traffickers Raffy Osama, 22, and 47-year-old Mohammad Tuankali Macalimpas, an alleged member of the 105thBase Command of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, are now awaiting prosecution for possession of methamphetamine hydrochloride (shabu). They are both under heavy guard. These two are included in the list of our high-value targets.

COTABATO CITY – A series of earthquake hit Wao, Lanao del Sur before today
Friday, including the first which was recorded at Magnitude 5.1, the state
volcanology office today said.

In a bulletin,
the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said the
first tremor came at 2:57 a.m. and traced four kilometers east of Wao, Lanao
del Sur and has a depth of 9 kilometers.

No immediate
report of casualties or damages to properties, the Phivolcs said.

MAGUINDANAO - It was friends and relatives who gave on Wednesday a 22-year-old large-scale narcotics trader away.Agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency- recovered P2.5 million worth of methamphetamine hydrochloride (shabu) from the now detained Raffy Osama, who was arrested in a drug sting Wednesday in Barangay Capiton in Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao.Juvenal Azurin, PDEA director for the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, said on Thursday that it was for the cooperation of Osama’s friends and relatives that they managed to entrap him in an operation involving agents disguised

DATU ODIN SINSUAT, Maguindanao – Anti-narcotics agents arrested Wednesday afternoon a criminology student during anti-drug operations that led to the confiscation of more than P2.5 million worth of illegal drugs.Director Juvenal Azurin of Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (PDEA-ARMM), identified the suspect as Raffy Osama, 22, a resident of Barangay Bagua, Cotabato City.Azurin said Osama was arrested after he handed over a sachet of shabu to a PDEA agent who acted as buyer at 1:30 p.m. in Barangay Upper Capiton, Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao.

KORONADAL CITY - A new Toyota Hi-Lux went wayward over the weekend and hit two trees and a roadside store in Barangay Zone 3, here.Its driver, Kim Paulo Januto, 27 of Barangay Upper Magsaysay, San Miguel, Norala, South Cotabato survived the crash that occurred at 4:30 a.m.The Koronadal City traffic office said the driver of black Toyota pick up (LHN-217) apparently fell asleep as he was speeding.Traffic officers said the vehicle slammed at the roadside store owned by Banga town Vice Mayor Aguinaldo Inocente.

MARAWI CITY -- Combat divers of the naval special operations group and the Special Forces elite unit while conducting search and recovery operation in Lake Lanao, Barangay Marinaut, Marawi City, recovered a high powered firearm and Rocket Propelled Grenades last Thursday, the Western Mindanao Command said.Seized were an M60 machine gun, two Rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) launchers, thirteen high explosive RPG rounds, and eighteen rifle grenades.

MAGUINDANAO --- Two prominent security councils will request Malacañang to put up bounties for principal suspects in the November 23, 2009 Maguindanao massacre still at large.Among the suspects who have not been served yet with arrest warrants are two grandsons of the former governor of Maguindanao, the late Andal Ampatuan, Sr., the alleged mastermind of the massacre.Maguindanao Gov.

KIDAPAWAN CITY – Truck driver and four of his crew died while six others were injured when the vehicle lost its brakes while maneuvering a blind curve along the highway in Aleosan, North Cotabato, around 530 p.m., Wednesday, police officer said.Senior Inspector Edwin Abantes, chief of the Aleosan PNP, identified those that died on-the-spot as Anwar Ampatuan, 35, truck driver Jorge Demalanes, 60 and Fredo Anliwa.The two others, who are still unidentified, remained at the morgue of the Cotabato Regional Medical Center in Cotabato City, reports said.Injured are identified as Dagno Crisanto, La

ISULAN, Sultan
Kudarat – Civilians and police authorities prevented Wednesday
night what could have been a bloody culmination program of a festival here
after a bombing attempt was foiled.

Senior Supt.
Raul Supiter, Sultan Kudarat police provincial director, said police force
multipliers discovered a suspected bomb left at a roadside in Barangay Kalawag
here where people had been gathering for the weeklong Kalimudan Festival
(gathering of people for thanksgiving).

SHARIFF AGUAK, Maguindana – In an apparent diversionary tactics, outlawed armed group with IS links fired a rocket propelled grenade toward a private school in Datu Piang, Maguindanao Sunday night.According to Senior Supt. Agustin Tello, Maguindanao police director, nobody was injured in the grenade attack which came at 8 p.m. at Gani L.