CPDRC raid nets cellphones, cigarettes but lesser drugs

Jessa Mae O. Sotto and Benjie Talisic 04/27/2018

Despite the number of contraband items seized inside the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) during Friday morning’s greyhound operation, police assured illegal drug activity inside the jail facility has been decreasing. Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency…

OFW in Kuwait tortured, burned with cigarettes by employer

Inquirer.net 03/13/2018

AN ALMOST incomprehensible Bretchielyn Magsayo faced the camera to relay her story of abuse in the brutal hands of her employer in Kuwait, and her desperate pleas to be rescued. In a harrowing Facebook video by a…

Attempt to sneak in drugs, cigarettes inside Cebu City Jail foiled; 2 women nabbed, minor rescued

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Benjie B. Talisic 11/18/2017

Two women-visitors were arrested by jail officers on Saturday for allegedly trying to sneak in contraband at the Cebu City Jail. Marlyn Estorgio, 20, was caught hiding in her genitals two heat-sealed transparent plastic sachets believed to…

Shabu found in cigarettes at juvenile detention facility

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 09/18/2017

  Two small sachets of shabu were found hidden in one of several packs of cigarettes that were supposed to be thrown into the Cebu City jail at 3 pm last Saturday. Police caught a certain Rimer…

Retailers pull Mighty cigarettes off shelves

Inquirer.net 05/13/2017

For fear of being caught selling cigarettes in packs with fake tax stamps, a number of retailers have pulled Mighty Corp.’s products off their shelves. In a statement, the Philippine Amalgamated Supermarket Association, Inc. (Pagasa), a group…

Three traders indicted for selling fake cigarettes

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 03/10/2015

Three traders are facing trial for allegedly selling fake cigarettes worth P122,000 in Cebu City. In a press conference yesterday, NBI 7 Director Ricardo Diaz said they arrested the suspects after receiving  the complaint of representatives from…

Three nabbed by NBI for selling fake cigarettes

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 03/09/2015

Eleven boxes of fake cigarettes sold in barangays Taboan and Ermita in Cebu City were confiscated by agents of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI-7). Three suspects identified as Carissaa Mae Juanico, Glenn Squib and Kevin Takiao…

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