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COTABATO CITY – Joint elements of Cotabato City Police Office, Regional Intelligence Unit 15, RHPU BAR, and Maritime Police Station arrested the Number 6 Most Wanted Person of Police Station 1, Cotabato City Police Office on March 31, 2021.

Police Brigadier General Samuel P Rodriguez, Regional Director, PROBAR, lauded the operating units for their relentless efforts in the implementation and serving of warrant of arrest against wanted person in Cotabato City. He encourages the public to actively support the PNP operations against wanted person in the Bangsamoro region.

KORONADAL CITY - Kusang sumuko sa mga otoridad ang 13 na mga kasapi ng communist terror group (CTG) sa probinsya ng South Cotabato.

Ipineresenta ang kanilang pagsuko sa South Cotabato Gym and Cultural Center sa lungsod ng Koronadal kung saan kabilang sa mga pandangal na mga bisita ay sina Gov. Reynaldo Tamayo Jr., PNP-12 regional director BGen. Michael John Dubria, South Cotabato Police Provincial Director Col. Jemuel Siason, DSWD-12 regional director Cezario Joel Espejo at 601st Infantry Brigade Philippine Army commander Col. Joel Mamon.

MAGUINDANAO --- Police probers in Sultan Mastura town in the first district of Maguindanao are still trying to determine who was at fault in this head-on collision of a car and a light truck at a stretch of a national highway traversing the municipality.

The accident happened early Monday, March 29. No one was reported killed in the mishap.

TUPI, South Cotabato -- A 5-yearold boy was killed while at least seven others were injrued, three of the in critical condition after a van they were riding fell into a 100-feet deep ravien in Barangay Kablon, Tupi, South Cotabato Sunday. 

COTABATO CITY --- Navy personnel foiled before dawn Saturday an attempt by boatmen from Sulu to smuggle to Zamboanga City P3.8 million worth of imported cigarettes.

Lt. Gen. Corleto Vinluan, Jr. of the Western Mindanao Command said Sunday the operation resulted in the confiscation of 108 cases of cigarettes from the crew of the two small boats now in the custody of the Naval Forces Western Mindanao.

The NFWM has teams guarding round-the-clock the territorial waters of Zamboanga City from terrorists, smugglers and human traffickers.

COTABATO CITY --- Anti-narcotics operatives uprooted a thousand marijuana plants worth P7.6 million in a remote town in Sulu Friday.

Juvenal Azurin, director of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, said Saturday marijuana plants were owned by a certain Otoh, who is at large.

PDEA-BARMM agents and officials of the Sulu provincial police placed at P7.6 million the value of the confiscated marijuana plants.

Isa ang patay habang kritikal ang isa pa nang aksidenteng sumalpok ang kotse sinasakyan ng mga ito sa isang mixer truck sa national highway ng Barangay Lanao, Kidapawan City alas kwatro ng madaling araw kanina.

Kinilala ang nasawi na si Immer Plang, 23-anyos na taga Apo Sandawa ng lungsod habang nagpapagaling sa pagamutan si Carlo Bercero 23-anyos, single, isang seaman na taga Poblacion, Kidapawan.

Sa ulat ng traffic investigators ng Kidapawan City PNP, binabaybay ng dalawang mga sasakyan ang parehong lane nang maganap ang insidente.

COTABATO CITY - This is to facilitate restructuring of primary line in the area, Cotabato Light and Power Company said.

COTABATO CITY --- Ten gunmen identified with a slain mayor included in President Rodrigo Duterte’s list of narco-politicians surrendered to the police Thursday.

The group, led by Andih Anso, turned over assorted firearms, including a .50 caliber Barrett sniper’s rifle to Major Gen. Albert Ignatius Ferro, director of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group, during a simple surrender rite in a police camp in the city.

Anso also turned in three live rifle-propelled grenades and two 40 millimeter grenade projectiles.

KORONADAL CITY -- Limang mga mayors sa bansa ang pinapaliwanag ng DILG kung bakit sila naunang nagpabakuha kahit wala sila sa priority list.

Ang memorandum ay ipinalabas ni DILG Undersecretary Epimaco Densing.

Dalawang sa mga mayor ay taga South Cotabato. Ito ay sina T'boli Mayor Dibu Tuan at Sto Nino Mayor Sulpicio Villalobos.