Peace and Order

GEN. SANTOS CITY -  Assorted smuggled cigarettes were seized in Barangay Poblacion, Glan, Sarangani Province during joint operation of Glan Municipal Police Station, Sarangani Provincial Police Office – Provincial Intelligence Unit (SPPO-PIU), 1st Sarangani Provincial Mobile Force Company (SPMFC), and Regional Special Operations Group (RSOG) 12 on March 21, 2022, Monday.

ISULAN, Sultan Kudarat – Police uprooted more than 12,000 hills of fully grown marijuana plants estimated to cost P2,400,000 baed on PDEA estimates during law enforcement operations in Sitio Alyeng, Barangay Datalblao, Columbio, Sultan Kudarat.

Joint elements of Columbio MPS together with other law enforcement units  and in coordination with barangay Officials and media representatives witnessed the conducted law enforcement operation on the uprooting of marijuana plants.

DATU SAUDI AMPATUAN, Maguindanao - ISINUGOD SA pagamutan ang isang fireman at isa pa matapos na sila ay pagbabarilin alas 9 ng umaga kahapon sa national highway ng bayang ito.

Kinilala ang mga biktima na sina FO1 Jingle Bedeña, 28 anyos at nadestino sa Sultan Sa Barongis Fire Station at Salahudin Pato, 21 anyos.

Sila ay pawang mga residente ng Mamasapano, Maguindanao.

Ayon sa Maguindanao PNP, sakay ng motorsiklo ang mga biktima ng bigla silang dikitan at pagbabarilin ng riding in tandem suspects.

HNDI NA UMABOT SA PAGAMUTAN ang isang lalaki matapos na ito ay pagbabarilin mag a-alas dose ng tanghali kanina sa Barangay Poblacion Dalican, Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao.

Kinilala ang biktima na si Norhanudin Mama, 31 years old at residente ng lugar.

Ayon sa report na ipinadala ng Datu Odin Sinsuat PNP sa pamumuno ni PLt.Col. Assir Balindong, habang sakay ang biktima ng payong payong (tricycle) ay bigla itong pinagbabaril ng hindi pa matukoy na salarin.

PIKIT, North Cotabato ---Two vendors of smoked freshwater fishes were killed while a vehicle of a lawyer working for a Bangsamoro parliament member was damaged in separate gun attacks here in just two days.

The fatalities, Pepito Sobrepeña, 57, and his 26-year-old helper, Juner Alconera, died on the spot from bullet wounds.

The duo were attacked with pistols by motorcycle-riding suspects while in their roadside stall in the town proper here late Saturday.

INARESTO ng pinagsamang pwersa ng Pigcawayan Municipal Drug Enforcement Unit, PDEA- 12 at RPDEU- 12 ang isang bigtime drug pusher sa isinagawang entrapment operation alas-2:00 ng hapon kahapon sa national highway Poblacion 3, Pigcawayan N. Cotabato.

Kinilala ni Pigcawayan town chief Major Carl Jayson Baynosa ang suspek na si Demy Mange Salvo, 58-year-old, na taga Banisilan, North Cotabato.

Sa panayam ng DXMS radyo bida kay Baynosa, sinabi nitong nadakip ang suspek matapos mapagbentahan nito ng shabu ang isang police undercover agent.

COTABATO CITY --- An Army soldier and an Abu Sayyaf member were killed in a gunfight in Patikul town in Sulu Monday. 

The fatalities were identified as Army Pfc. Jay Clint Pasingan and Abu Sayyaf gunman Omar Yakhan, a follower of the long wanted terrorists Ellam Nasirin.

Pasingan and his companions were patrolling in Barangay Bangkal in Patikul town in Sulu when they were attacked by Abu Sayyaf terrorists, sparking a gunfight.

Two companions of Pasingan, Sgt. Michael Baguno at Pfc. Celestino Tanu, were both wounded in the ensuing encounter.

COTABATO CITY --- An incumbent municipal councilor in Zamboanga del Sur landed in jail for carrying a gun outside of residence in total disregard of restrictions set by the Commission on Elections.

Jovert Dahunan, an incumbent of the municipal council in Kumalarang, Zamboanga del Sur, was nabbed Monday night at a checkpoint by policemen enforcing Comelec’s ban on carrying of firearms without clearance from the commission.

He was immediately clamped down in a detention facility of the Kumalarang Municipal Police Station.

GENERAL SANTOS CITY --- A team from the US Marine Corps is training a group of selected personnel of the Police Regional Office-12 on long-range sniper tactics and proficiency.

Brig. Gen. Alexander Tagum, director of PRO-12, said Wednesday the 15-day Advance Sniper Course for his subordinates is a joint program of the US Marine Corps and the Philippine National Police.

The training, which started this week, is being held inside the big compound here of PRO-12’s regional headquarters that has a rifle shooting range.

BARIRA, Maguindanao --- For having only P2,000 cash, robbers shot dead an ambulant trader of kitchen utensils and his son in an attack here Monday.

The Barira municipal police identified the fatalities as Richard Bigcas and son, Richie, who both died on the spot from multiple bullet wounds.

They were selling kitchen wares and other merchandise in a secluded area here when four gunmen approached them and, at gunpoint, asked for money in exchange for their safety.

The spouse of Bigcas, Lorna, witnessed the attack.