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Cops seize guns, explosives in Koronadal rice dealer's home

KORONADAL CITY -- Police authorities here seized firearms and explosives in a rice dealer's warehouse following the implementation of search warrants, a police official said. Supt. Barney Condes, Koronadal City police director, said the raiding team, composed of police operatives from the city and Police Regional Office (PRO-12), was armed with three search warrants against businessman Suharto Edza Ebus, a rice dealer in the city and nearby areas. Condes told DXOM-AM Radyo Bida Koronadal, that Ebus was not in his home during the raid a about 3 p.m.

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Sultan Kudarat wanted drug personality yields, cops seize P500,000 worth shabu

KORONADAL CITY – A man in Columbio,
Sultan Kudarat and the No. 1 wanted drug personality by the local police has
voluntarily surrendered over the weekend after a team seized about half-million
worth of prohibited drugs in his house, a police official today said.

Supt. Romeo Galgo, spokesperson of Police
Regional Office (PRO-12), identified the suspected pusher as Arjay Haden C.
Motalib, 28, married but unemployed and a resident of Purok 3, Barangay Poblacion
Columbio, Sultan Kudarat.

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Gensan cops arrest man with gun, bullets

GEN. SANTOS CITY --- Joint elements of Gen.Santos City PNP and Regional Public Safety Battalion and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency(PDEA-12) arrested a man with loose firearms during an operation in Barangay Bula here Saturday.Supt.

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Helium tank in balloon making explodes in Kidapawan, no one hurt

KIDAPAWAN CITY - A powerful blast rocked Kidapawan City amid threats of bomb attacks following the Davao City bombing.But the blast, which occurred before 8 p.m.,was accidental and not an act of terror, according to Supt. Leo Ajero, Kidapawan City police chief.Speaking to DXND Kidapawan Friday, Ajero said the blast that many believed was an improvised bomb was triggered by an accidental explosion of helium tank in a balloon-making shop along Alim Street this city.Nobody was hurt when the explosion occurred in a balloon making shop owned by Johar Kamad.

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Bomb makers who eluded arrest behind 2014 Mlang bombings

KIDAPAWAN CITY -- Mlang Mayor Russel Abonado was surprised upon learning that one of its town villages, the Barangay Dungu-an, where majority of the constituents living there are Moro settlers became haven of bomb makers, without the village officials knowing it. The mayor was even more shocked when police and military intelligence officials informed him that the father and son bomb makers identified as Anwar and Guiamadel Sandigan, were behind the twin bombing in town in 2014.

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Gov't bomb experts detonate 36,000 dynamite sticks in Sultan Kudarat

ISULAN, Sultan
Kudarat -– Government bomb experts safely disposed off Thursday
afternoon about six tons of dynamites seized last month from an abandoned
mining site in Bagumbayan, Sultan Kudarat.

Supt. Raul
Supiter, Sultan Kudarat police provincial director, said Army and police bomb
experts used blasting caps to ignite the explosives down the river in Barnagay
Titulok, Bagumbayan.

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PNP anti-drug group agents arrest Maguindanao vice mayor at Awang airport

COTABATO CITY –
Vice Mayor Abdul Wahab of Talitay, Maguinadnao was arrested by elements of Police
Anti-Illegal Drug Group as he arrived from Manila via Awang airport Thursday,
the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group in the Autonomous Region in
Muslim Mindanao (CIDG-ARMM) said.

Senior Supt.
Jimmy Daza, CIDG-ARMM chief, said the vice mayor did not resist arrest when lawmen took custody of him as he step out of the exit gate of Awang Airport at past 12 noon.

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Cops seize P225,000 worth of shabu, fake P500 bills in anti-drug raid

KORONADAL CITY – Three persons were arrested during police anti-drug operations in Central Mindanao and confiscated counterfeit money from the suspects, a police official said.Supt. Romeo Galgo Jr, PNP-12 spokesperson, said two of the suspects were arrested during illegal drug buy bust in Lambayong, Sultan Kudarat while the other in Gen.

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Bombing suspect, bomb making materials seize in N. Cotabato

KIDAPAWAN CITY – Police and military forces in
North Cotabato arrested Tuesday dawn a man believed to be member of a bomb
mercenary group operating in Central Mindanao region.

Senior Supt. Emmanuel Peralta,
North Cotabato police provincial director, said raid by joint police and 7th
Infnatry Battalion troopers was conducted at 4 a.m. in Baangay Inas, Mlang,
North Cotabato and led to the arrest of Jokrie Andong Buisan.

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Army bomb experts defuse 2nd bomb in Maguindanao

COTABATO CITY -– Army bomb experts defused in Sultan Kudarat town in Maguindanao a
powerful improvised explosive device at about 6 p.m. Tuesday.

Traffic
linking Cotabato City and North Cotabato have been interrupted for about 2
hours while Army bomb experts deactivated the powerful explosive, according to
Colonel Earl Baliao, commander of 603rd Infantry Brigade.

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