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KIDAPAWAN CITY - Two members of the Traffic Management Unit (TMU) here are in hot water after a retired marine officer complained twoextorted P500 from him.TMU head Rey Manar vowed to investigate traffic enforcersRolly Tindugan and a certain Salmorin on the complaint.

KORONADAL CITY - A man from Maguindanao who claimed to be a major supplier of suspected methamphetamine hydrochloride to South Cotabato towns and in Koronadal City was arrested during a drug buy bust operation Tuesday morning, police said.Chief Insp.

COTABATO CITY - At least 12 houses were destroyed in a conflagration that hit residential areas in PC Hill area, Barangay Rosary Heights 1, Cotabato City Tuesday, fire officials said.The fire started at about 2:20 a.m. following heavy down pour, Fire Inspector James Ra, speaking for the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP), said.Ra said 12 houses were affected, 10 were razed to the ground with an estimated cost of damage of P1 million. The fire was contained in an hour, Ra told DXMS Radyo Bida .

STO NINO, South Cotabato - Two men traveling along the national highway here pulled over at past 9 a.m. on Sunday, pulled out a sachet of methamphetamine hydrochloride and started pot session.Before their session could end, police officers were already around, surrounded the KIA Avella and arrested the suspects.It was supposed to be happy session to satisfy bodily needs for illegal drugs but police acted quickly on tipster's information about their nefarious activities.Chief Insp. Joel Fuerte, Sto Nino police chief, led a team of police officers in arresting Aubrey Lagradante, 33 and Ma.

PIKIT, North Cotabato - Police authorities here running after three drug suppliers in a remote village here Sunday have instead caught three menin the act of sniffing prohibited substance.Police Ins. Sindatu Karim, Pikit town police chief, lawmen
armed with arrest warrant swooped down on the village to Ondo Panangilan and
two others in the village of Talitay.Panangilan and his cohorts werenot around but three
men caught in the act of sniffing shabu were hauled to jail.

KIDAPAWAN CITY -Unidentified gunmen shot dead a project contractor while heading towards home in a remote village in President Roxas, North Cotabato, around 6 p.m., Friday.Chief Inspector Romy Castanares, chief of the President Roxas municipal police station, identified the victim as Nilo Sintos, 52, sub-contractor of several road projects of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) along the Arakan Valley Development Complex in North Cotabato.

COTABATO CITY
– Despite police and local officials' efforts to contain the rash of gun-related incidents, two men were the latest victims of
the spate of shooting incidents here.The victims, one of them a 75-year-old man, were lowly trisikad drivers.At past 6:50
p.m. Friday, unidentified gunmen shot and wounded two men in Arong Village, Rosary
heights 4, Cotabato City, police reports showed.

KIDAPAWAN CITY– Operatives of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in Central Mindanao (Region 12) arrested a traffic enforcer in a buy-bust raid in nearby President Roxas town in North Cotabato, around 11 a.m., Friday. Authorities identified the suspect as Conrad Sandoy Tampus, a Job Order employee of the President Roxas municipal government assigned at the Traffic Management Unit (TMU).

DATU ODIN
SINSUAT, Maguindanao – Police authorities here have identified the couple killed by still unidentified gunmenalong a highway here Thursday afternoon.Senior Insp. Lindsy Sinsuat, Datu Odin Sinsuat town police chief, identified the victims asMantil Sangkad and his wife Noriha, both residents of SPDA Village, also in Datu Odin Sinsuat town.The couple’s 7-year-old
child who was riding with them in the motorcycle at the time of the shooting escaped
unhurt.

DATU ODIN SINSUAT, Maguindanao - Gunmen shot dead Thursday afternoon a still unidentified motorcycle-riding couple in a secluded stretch of a national highway in Taviran District in Datu Odin Sinsuat town south of Maguindanao province.Responding police probers said the couple seemed headed to the north, either to Cotabato City or in Awang area in Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguidnanao when they were attacked.Chief Supt.