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TANTANGAN, South Cotabato - A construction company manager sent to police detention cell four firm drivers caught in the act of stealing diesel fuel from the trucks they drivein Barangay Maibo here Sunday.John Edmundo Andres, assistant manager and chief security officerof Gemma Construction Company, has no mercy toRandy M.

KORONADAL CITY – As the cleansing campaign within the police organization against misfits and undesirables, police officers here have been subjected to random drug testing.Police Supt. Franklin Lopez Valdez from Philippine National Police Crime Laboratory Office-12 led the collection of police urine samples. First to submit urine samples wereSupt. Nestor Salcedo, Koronadal City police chief,and his deputies Chief Insp.Rey D. Egos, Senior InspectorDario F.

IMPASUGONG, Bukidnon (PNA) -– A government soldier died as fresh fighting between communist guerillas erupted anew in the outskirts of Malaybalay City in Bukidnon, a military report said Friday.Capt. Norman Tagros, spokesperson of the Army’s 8th Infantry Battalion, said that two separate armed encounters occurred in the outskirts of Malaybalay City on Wednesday morning and in the afternoon.Tagros identified the lone fatality as Private First Class Randy G.

KIDAPAWAN CITY – Two banana plantation laborers were seriously wounded when an unidentified gunmen strafed a makeshift hut in a remote village here Friday. Senior Inspector Samuel Bascon, deputy chief of the Kidapawan City Police, identified the victims as Ryman Monteverde Polines, 20, of Purok-7, Barangay Lumbay in Tulunan, North Cotabato and John Rommel Arena Sasi, 24, of Barangay Malibatuan in Arakan, North Cotabato. Bascon said the victims were asleep in the hut when the suspects, armed with high-powered firearms, peppered bullets upon them at past midnight.

KIDAPAWAN CITY – Operatives of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in Central Mindanao (Region 12) arrested a suspected big-time shabu pusher identified as Joey Aranas of Salcedo Village, Barangay Sudapin here Thursday. PDEA agents confiscated from Aranas 15 sachets of suspected shabu, which were estimated at P200,000 during a 4:30 p.m. buy bust operation. They also seized from the suspect a hand grenade and a caliber .38 revolver, which, according to reports, have no pertinent papers. With those items, the agents considered Aranas a ‘big-time’ pusher.

KIDAPAWAN CITY - Teachers are model of righteousness and learning and anything they do, more often than not, remainin the minds and hearts of their students.But two male teachers ofMagpet, North Cotabato are not models for many parents and education officials.Under the influence of liquor,two male teachers reportedly showed up inApostol Memorial Central Elementary School (AMCES) in BarangayPoblacion, Magpet, North Cotabato last week during the District Level Sports festival.

KIDAPAWAN CITY -- After hiding for at least amonth, with conscience bothering them, the two suspects in the murder of a 60-year-old internet cafe owner in Magpet, North Cotabatoyielded to police authorities Wednesday, the town police office said.Senior Inspector Felix Fornan, Magpet police chief, identified the suspects in the cold blood murder of Isidro Alpas as Jackie Salde, 18 of Polomolok, South Cotabato and Jay Boy Bayaan, 18 of Barangay Bantac, Magpet.Fornan said the two voluntarily surrendered to the Polomolok town police office.On Wednesday, Fornan and a team from Magpet PNP fetched

COTABATO CITY - Police authorities here took two steps ahead of suspected carnap gang members and arrested two mencaught in the act stealing a motorbike Wednesday.A companion was also arrested during follow up operation.Elements of Police Station 4 arrestedRuel Amolat Barredo, 28 of Supermarket

KORONADAL CITY - A fire of still unknown origin gutted down several small business establishments made of light materials at the corner of near the corner of Gen. Santos Drive and Aquino Street (fronting Ramona Plaza Hotel), officials said.In a flash report aired over DXOM-AMRadyo Bida Koronadal, Nathalia Sumudio, owner of a house where the fire originated, said the conflagration started at about 1:30 p.m.

PIKIT, North
Cotabato —- Police here announced the arrest of the prime suspect in
the bombing of a UCCP Church here in October last year that left three persons
dead and three others wounded.

This after a
man tipped off the local PNP about the presence of the suspect in a safehouse
in Barangay Poblacion.