120 faulty weighing scales seized in Cebu City’s Operation Timbangan

Wenilyn Sabalo 06/10/2023

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Market authorities confiscated about 120 faulty weighing scales during its 10-day “Operation Timbangan” in the ten city-managed public markets from May 30 until June 9, 2023. Robert Barquilla, head of Operations…

329 loose firearms recovered since De Leon’s installment as PRO-7 chief

Rosalie Abatayo 12/19/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — At least 329 loose firearms have been recovered by the Cebu Police Provincial Office (CPPO) since October 17, 2019, the police reported on Thursday, December 19, 2019. The firearms, a mix of improvised…

4 e-cigarettes turned over to police, 1 other seized from minor in Talisay City

Alven Marie A. Timtim 11/20/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Four Vape or e-cigarette users in Talisay City have started turning over their e-cigarettes to police while one other was confiscated from a minor hours after President Rodrigo Duterte announced the banning of…

ASF Task Force: Banned pork products from Luzon proliferate Cebu wet markets

Rosalie Abatayo 10/07/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Pork products from Luzon still made it to some wet markets in Cebu despite the ban imposed by the Cebu provincial government. Dr. Mary Rose Vincoy, the provincial veterinarian and head of the…

Labella to review ordinance allowing CITOM to confiscate drivers license

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 07/04/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines–Cebu City Mayor Edgardo Labella said he will be reviewing the ordinance that was passed on 2018, allowing the city’s traffic enforcers to confiscate the driver’s licenses of motorists found violating traffic laws in the…

Of nuke bombs and handguns, LTO-7 chief shares views on Cebu City’s new traffic ordinance

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 02/10/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Land Transportation Office in Central Visayas (LTO-7) chief has likened the ordinance allowing the city’s traffic enforcers to confiscate the driver’s license of a motorist to the Cebu city government using a…

Authorities confiscate more drugs

Benjie B. Talisic 12/09/2018

THREE separate drug operations in Talisay City and Cebu City netted shabu valued at P10.9 million. In Talisay City, a joint operation by the Provincial Intelligence Branch (PIB) and the Provincial Drug Enforcement Unit last Saturday led…

Lapu cops arrest 9; confiscate P150K worth of drugs

Norman V. Mendoza 09/04/2018

Lapu-Lapu City policemen arrested nine persons and confiscated P150,000 worth of suspected shabu in four separate buy-bust operations held on Monday. Personnel from the Hoops Dome Police Station arrested Rachel Bregente, 22, of Sitio Capricorn Barangay Pajo,…

Groups oppose city ordinance allowing traffic aide to confiscate driver’s license

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 03/28/2017

SEVERAL groups expressed their opposition to a proposed ordinance in Cebu City that will authorize the confiscation of the driver’s license of motorists found to be violating traffic laws and regulations in the city. In a public…

P200K ‘shabu’ seized in Consolacion

Norman V. Mendoza 12/08/2016

ALMOST P200,000 worth of suspected shabu was confiscated, while nine drug suspects were arrested in separate police operations in Consolacion town on Wednesday evening. The first antidrug operation led by Consolacion police chief Senior Insp. William Homoc…

‘Sell clean, safe meat products’

Dominic D. Yasay 11/27/2016

National Meat Inspection Service to closely monitor meat vendors Meat dealers and vendors are advised to ensure selling clean and safe meat products this Christmas season. Dr. Alvin Leal, National Meat Inspection Service in Central Visayas (NMIS-7)…

Blasted fish worth P243K seized in Compostela town

Victor Anthony V. Silva 05/12/2016

A truckload of blasted fish was intercepted in Barangay Estaca, Compostela town last Wednesday evening. Lyndon Ruiz, Cebu Provincial Anti-Illegal Fishing Task Force (CPAIFT) head, said the task force intercepted a truck carrying 27 boxes of assorted…

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