Shabu, cellphones and cash seized in CPDRC raid

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 02/28/2017

Agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in Central Visayas (PDEA-7) raided the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) on Tuesday dawn and seized packs of shabu, assorted drug paraphernalia, cellular phones, peso bills, and coins,…

Signal jammers up in Cebu jail

Nestle L. Semilla 02/08/2017

AT least two signal jammers were installed in key areas inside the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) to disrupt cell phone use inside by either inmate or visitor. Bobby Legaspi, chief of the Provincial Civil…

Detained ‘pedophile’ calls Germany using jail phone

Izobelle T. Pulgo 02/01/2017

There is no denying. Suspected pedophile, Thomas Ruhland, who is currently detained at the Cebu provincial jail in Barangay Kalunasan, Cebu City, was recently able to call a friend in Germany. A service phone available for the…

German suspect in CPDRC can call people outside jail

Izobelle T. Pulgo 01/30/2017

A SUSPECTED notorious child trafficker in Cebu is still communicating with the outside world even while behind bars. Vice Gov. Agnes Magpale said that she was informed by German Consul, Dr. Franz Seidenschwarz, that detained German national,…

EMB TO JAILS: Stop dumping wastewater into Langub Creek

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 01/11/2017

THE Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) 7 asked the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) and Cebu City Jail to cease discharging its wastewater into the Langub Creek in Barangay Kalunasan, Cebu City. EMB-7 also recommended that…

Provincial Capitol: Of prison breaks and other problems

Izobelle T. Pulgo 01/05/2017

(Conclusion) Known globally as the jail facility that houses the dancing inmates, unknown to the world, the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) has been plagued with various issues: from the escape of inmates, to the…

Firecrackers destroy CPDRC drainage

Nestle L. Semilla 12/27/2016

POLICE are warning people who carelessly throw firecrackers of being arrested after the concrete drainage of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) was damaged allegedly by an explosion caused by firecrackers on Monday afternoon. Residents…

CPDRC inmates to be shipped to other jails

Izobelle T. Pulgo 12/26/2016

STARTING January next year, provincial jail inmates will be transferred by batches to other other detention centers, such as the Abuyog Penal Colony in Leyte and the National Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa City to decongest the already…

Mother wants holiday visit for Barok

Izobelle T. Pulgo 12/19/2016

TO see her child in time for Christmas — this is Emma Alvaro’s plea to the management of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) as her son, alleged high-profile drug trader Alvaro “Barok” Alvaro, continues…

PB okays proposed budget for 2017

Izobelle T. Pulgo 12/19/2016

THE 14th Sangguniang Panlalawigan has approved the Cebu provincial government’s proposed 2017 budget in the amount of P3.6 billion. During its last regular session for the year yesterday afternoon, the Provincial Board unanimously approved on its second…

CPDRC to install signal jammers

Izobelle T. Pulgo 12/16/2016

NOT even solitary confinement in an isolation cell at the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) could stop alleged big-time drug personality Alvaro “Barok” Alvaro from communicating with the world outside. There is always the cellular…

Creek stench

Editorial 12/16/2016

It was pathetic seeing the officials of both the Cebu City Jail and the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) blaming each other for the stench emanating from the Kalunasan Creek which, if left to worsen,…

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