Peace and Order

KIDAPAWAN CITY - Dead on the spot ang isang magbobote makaraang pagbabarilin at gilitan pa sa leeg ng dalawang di kilalang suspek sa boundary ng Barangay Bangilan, Kabacan, Cotabato at Barangay Natutungan, Matalam, Cotabato alas 11:30 ng umaga kahapon.

Sa report ng PNP, nakilala ang biktima na si Kenny Garcia Labasan, 25 years old isang laborer at mangangakal na taga Purok Kadina de amor, Barangay Malanduage, Kabacan, Cotabato habang maswerte namang nakaligtas ang isang pang lalaking kasama nito.

COTABATO CITY -- The police has activated an interim group to probe on Saturday’s fatal ambush of nine Moro motorists in Kabacan, North Cotabato.

Col. Henry Villar, director of the North Cotabato provincial police, said Sunday the special investigation task group, or SITG, shall enlist the help of local officials and other sectors that can help put closure to the case.

Local police probers said the victims, riding separate motorcycles, were ambushed by five men armed with assault rifles in Barangay Aringgay, while en route to the town center of Kabacan.

COTABATO CITY --- Police and military probers are still clueless on Saturday’s fatal ambush of nine motorists inside a sprawling state agricultural reservation in Kabacan town in North Cotabato.

Major Peter Pinalgan, Jr. of the Kabacan municipal police station said Sunday they are still trying to identify the gunmen who ambushed the nine Moro men on separate motorcycles at noontime Saturday in Barangay Aringgay.

KABACAN, North Cotabato – The lone survivor in the mass killing Saturday in Kabacan, Cotabato has also died hours after the shooting, raising the death toll to nine, police said.

Police Major Peter Pinalgan Jr, Kabacan town police chief, said Tong Guiaman, 30 years old, married and resident Buluan, Kabacan, Cotabato expired at past 4 p.m. while undergoing medication at a private hospital.

COTABATO CITY – Naunahan na, nakabawi pa.

Ganito ang naging eksena kanina sa Sinsuat Avenue matapos tambangan si Master Sergeant Salipuddin Pangawilan na kasapi ng Guindulungan Police habang papasok na ito sa cotabato city mula sa kanyang assignment sakay ng kanyang kulay gray na Toyota Innova.

Ayon kay Cotabato City Police Colonel Richard Fiesta sinundan daw ng riding-in-tandem suspects ang biktima at niratrat nang malapitan gamit ang .45 na pistola pagsapit malapit sa isang terminal.

KORONADAL CITY --- Agents arrested a scheming drug dealer who used as cover for his illegal activity his being a chef in a local restaurant.

The suspect, Francis Aliperio, is now in the custody of the Philippine drug Enforcement Agency-12.

He fell in an entrapment operation along GenSan Drive in Barangay Morales here Monday laid by agents of PDEA-12 with the help of local officials and barangay leaders.

COTABATO CITY --- Anti-narcotics agents shot dead a municipal councilor in nearby Kabuntalan, Maguindanao in an entrapment operation in Barangay Rosary Heights 11 here Sunday.

Juvenal Azurin, director of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, said Jaymar Nandang, died from multiple bullet wounds he sustained in a brief shootout with PDEA-BARMM agents at past noontime Sunday.

CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao  - While conducting combat patrol, troops of the 37th Infantry Battalion encountered more or less 20 communist terrorists in Mt. Payong Payong, Baluan, Palimbang, Sultan Kudarat at 5:55am, July 26.

Said encounter resulted in the death of one enemy and the wounding of one soldier.

While scouring the encounter site, troops recovered the enemy cadaver, one M16 rifle, one bandolier, and six magazines.

MAGUINDANAO --- State agents shot dead a drug dealer for resisting arrest after an entrapment tradeoff involving P170,000 worth of shabu in Buluan town Thursday.

Jhetrue Mastura Tantong died from multiple bullet wounds while being rushed to a hospital.

Juvenal Azurin, director of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, said the operation that resulted in the death of Tantong was assisted by the Buluan municipal police and the Army’s 40th Infantry Battalion.

KORONADAL CITY – Police authorities in Gen. Santos City arrested a Chinese national and seized from him P8.9 million worth smuggled cigarettes Monday night.

Lieutenant Colonel Lino Capellan, speaking for police in the Soccsksargen region, said 271 boxes of Gudang Baru and Mighty brands of cigarettes, four sachets of suspected shabu were taken from the house rented by Zai Tian Shi at Oringo Subdivision, Barangay City Heights, Gen. Santos City.

Capellan said an undercover police agent managed to buy at about 9 p.m. five reams of Gudang Baru cigarettes for P3,000.