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KIDAPAWAN CITY – Authorities launched manhunt operations against a suspected big-time supplier of shabu and other illegal drugs in North Cotabato who was able to escape in a buy-bust raid here, over the weekend.Operatives of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in Region 12 identified the suspect as Rodel Javier, who, according to reports, was the same person that escaped from a dragnet operation launched in 2014 in Davao City.But Javier’s younger brother, Arnold Javier, a member of the Philippine Army deployed at Palembang, Sultan Kudarat his live-in partner and another suspected

KABACAN, North Cotabato -- A 26-year old student here has died allegedly due to hazing of a fraternity he recently joined, police said.Senior Inspector Ronnie Cordero, Kabacan police chief, identified the victim as Bobong Bualan student of St.

COTABATO CITY -- Officials on Sunday condemned the fatal ambush Saturday afternoon of the Marawi City police chief in another bloody incident amid the worsening lawlessness in the area.The victim, Supt. Al Abner Wahab Santos, was attacked in Luk’s-a-Datu District in Marawi City while driving his black Mitsubishi Montero en route to the city police station from a security conference in another barangay. It was a heinous act. We condemn the murder of the Marawi police chief in strongest term,” Gov. Mujiv Hataman of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) said Sunday.Supt.

KIDAPAWAN CITY – A feisty legislator here has challenged her detractors to present to them evidences that would prove her driver and another government employee are, indeed, involved in a sex scandal. City councilor Ruby Padilla-Sison, chair of the Committee on Women, Children, and Family Matters of the Sangguniang Panglungsod, said she is willing to step down and even give up her re-election bid if there are proofs that such scandal happened.

COTABATO CITY –
A man who had an altercation with another man was shot dead in Barangay Bagua
Mother Thursday afternoon.

Police said Abdlbasit
Pulindao, 48, a resident of Kampo Muslim, Barangay Bagua Mother, Cotabato City traded
blows with unidentified man in Purok Rajamuda, Jose Lim extension, in the same
village at 3 p.m.

At the height
of the scuffle, the suspect pulled his cal. 45 pistol and shot Pulindao four
times then fled.

The incident
occurred just few meters away from Police Station 4.

LIBUNGAN, North Cotabato - A speeding black Isuzu D-max collided head on with equally speeding Weena Bus along the national highway here Wednesday morning which left one critically injured, police said.Chief Inspector Rommel Constantino, Libungan police chief, told DXMS Radyo Bida the incident happened along the national highway in Barangay Baguer at past 5:30 a.m.Injured was Rommel Rene Santos, 40 of Bajada, Davao City and driver of the ill-fated black Isuzu pick up vehicle.Constantino said initial investigation showed that Santos was driving his black Isuzu pick-up with license plateLGC-4

KORONADAL CITY - Seventy-one days before Christmas, jailbirds of the South Cotabato Provincial Rehabilitation and Detention Center (SCPDRC)have started making Christmas decors and other handicrafts for sale, jail officials and inmates said.ActingProvincial WardenJuan Lanzaderas and head of the SCPDRC said the detainees facing various crimes do not consider themselves unproductive but could earn a living while in jail.As ber months ushered, orders for Christmas decors rise, raising prospects of livelihood for the jailbirds.Anthony Bengil, one of the inmates, said the Christmas decors, like

KIDAPAWAN CITY - A soft drinks sales man and his helper were arrestd by Matalam police for possession of illegal drugs during saturation drive Tuesday.Police suspected that the duo were not only delivering soft drinks but illegal drugs too.Arrested were Bejay Roduta, 20, soft drinks delivery truck driver and resident of Barangay Kibudoc, Matalam and Norberto Uboza, 33, soft drinks sales agent and resident of Barnagay Malasila, Makilala, North Cotabato.Police recovered three heat sealed sachets of shabu.Ins.

COTABATO CITY -A man dies in this freak accident near the corner of Sinsuat Avenue and Gov.

COTABATO CITY - The first day of filing of certificates of candidacy in Cotabato has been very peaceful and orderly, police authorities here said.Senior Supt. Rex Anongos, city police directors, said except for the discovery of an improvised bomb in Barangay Rosary Heights Mother, the political activity was generally peaceful.Speaking over DXMS Radyo Bida,Anongos said the incidentdid not disrupt the orderly and peaceful filing of candidacy in
at least three major political areas.