TIMRA Reports

COTABATO CITY - Policemen seized P600,000 worth of marijuana leaves in a rice sack and four plastic bags from two peddlers entrapped Sunday night in Marawi City.

The duo, Abdulrahman Casanguan Galawan, 25, and the 30-year-old Arham Benaning Zacaria, are now in the custody of the Marawi City Police Office.

They are to be prosecuted for violation of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.

CAMP SK PENDATUN, Maguindanao --- Three soldiers were killed when heavily-armed men attacked an Army detachment in Barangay Magcawa in Al-Barka, Basilan on Thursday afternoon.

Initial reports reaching the headquarters here of the Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region identified the slain soldiers as Cpl. Repupunio, and Privates 1^st Class Pamplona and Kapoy of the18th Infantry Battalion.   

COTABATO CITY - Defense Secretary Jose Faustino, Jr. and Basilan Gov. Jim Salliman have agreed to cooperate in rehabilitating former Abu Sayyaf members who have returned to the fold of law.

More than 300 Abu Sayyaf members in Basilan have pledged allegiance to the government in batches in the past six years through the joint efforts of elected and traditional leaders in the province, the Army’s 101^st Infantry Brigade and the Basilan Provincial Police Office.

CAMP SK PENDATUN, Maguindanao -Three villagers were killed while three others were wounded, among them a child, in a gun attack in Sumisip, Basilan before dawn Wednesday.

Reports reaching the headquarters here of the Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region identified two of the fatalities as Pajah Taalil and his daughter, Mardiya, a college student.

In an initial statement Wednesday, the Sumisip Municipal Police Station said a relative of the Taalils was also killed in the incident.

DAVAO CITY – Bago nadakip ang isang Army na taga 6^th Infantry Division sa checkpoint ng Task Force Davao Mierkules ng umaga, nahuli din ng PNP ang isang taga Kidapawan City na nagpakilalang sundalo sa ikinasang entrapment operation.

Inaresto ng mga tauhan ng Criminal Investigation and Detection Group - Davao City Field Unit noong Martes ng hapon si Capt. Ahmad Matawag, 36 ng 10th Infantry Division, at nakuha sa kanya ang isang M-16 baby Armalite rifle at mga bala.

COTABATO CITY  – A gunman shot dead in Ipil, Zamboanga Sibugay on Tuesday morning a man who has just emerged from a court where his son is helping litigate a frustrated murder case as witness.

In an initial statement released at noontime Tuesday, the Ipil Municipal Police Station identified the victim as Jainuddin Baladji Alsre, who died on the spot from two bullet wounds in the head.

Local police probers have confirmed that Alsre and his son are witnesses to a frustrated murder case at the Regional Trial Court Branch 36 at the provincial capitol in Ipil.

SA BUKIDNON, iniulat ng 403^rd Infantry Brigade na napatay sa encounter ang asawa at anak ni George Madlos alis Ka Oris ng CPP-NPA.

Kinilala ang nasawing anak na si Vincent Isagani Madlos na nagsisilbing lider ng grupo kapalit ni Ka Oris.  Nasawi din ang asawa ni Madlos na si si Angie Polandres Salinas.

Nakasagupa ng tropa ng 8^th Infantry Battalion ang grupo ni Vicent Madlos ala una kahapon sa bayan ng Impasug-ong.

Larawan sa iba ay mga baril na nakuha sa mag-inang NPA leaders.

CAMP SK PENDATUN, Maguindanao --- The Bangsamoro regional police had installed acting chiefs for its component-offices in Lamitan City and Basilan province.

Lt. Col. Arlan Delumpines was named acting chief of the Lamitan City Police Office while Col. Carlos Madronio is to oversee the Basilan Provincial Police Office as officer-in-charge.

The Lamitan City police force is under the Basilan PPO.

Brig. Gen. John Guyguyon, director of the Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region, confirmed on Monday the duo’s separate designations.

COTABATO CITY - A leader of a private armed group, employed as a security officer in a state university, surrendered in Marawi City Wednesday, a provincial police official said.

Col. Jibin Bongcayao, director of the Lanao del Sur provincial police, said the 51-year-old Bochary Macaronsing Pamlian turned in a .45 caliber pistol before signing a document renouncing his leadership of a secret private armed group long under surveillance by state security units and law-enforcement agencies.

CAMP SK PENDATUN, Maguindanao - Policemen on Monday uprooted no fewer than 40,000 marijuana shrubs in a two-hectare farm in Maguing town in Lanao del Sur.

Col. Jibin Bongcayao, Lanao del Sur provincial police director, said Tuesday armed men guarding the farm in Barangay Bato-Bato, Maguing immediately scampered away when they noticed policemen and soldiers approach their position from three directions.