Bantag surfaces and points finger at convicted drug lord

John Eric Mendoza - Reporter / @JEMendozaINQ 11/11/2022

MANILA, Philippines — Beleaguered suspended Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) Director General Gerald Bantag surfaced Friday, but not without dropping bombshells. Bantag showed up on television days after murder complaints were filed against him and others over the…

Manileño nabbed with P20.4M ‘shabu’ in Talisay City buy-bust

Pegeen Maisie M. Sararaña 06/19/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Lyndon “Palta” Rongasan, 34, travels from Manila to Cebu to allegedly bring ‘shabu’ to buyers here. According to the police, he works for a Manila-based drug lord, who is now serving his jail…

Drug lord Espinosa tried to escape through air vent at detention facility – NBI

Marlon Ramos 01/18/2022

MANILA, Philippines — The National Bureau of Investigation on Monday said it had foiled an escape attempt last week by confessed drug lord Rolan “Kerwin” Espinosa. NBI officer in charge Eric Distor said Espinosa and two other…

DOJ to put Peter Lim on Interpol red notice

Marlon Ramos, Tina G. Santos 06/29/2021

The Department of Justice (DOJ) would be asking the Interpol to place President Duterte’s “kumpadre” (wedding cosponsor), indicted drug lord Peter Lim, in its red notice list after he allegedly fled the country, Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra…

Murdered ex-cop’s alleged link to Jaguar probed

Alven Marie A. Timtim 08/21/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Alleged link to a slain suspected drug lord based in Cebu City may be a possible motive in the killing of a former policeman in Panglao, Bohol on August 21. Police Brigadier General…

Freeze order slapped on properties of alleged drug lord Rustico Ygot

Alven Marie A. Timtim 03/02/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines—Two out of the seven identified properties of alleged drug lord Rustico Ygot and girlfriend Jocelyn Encila, in Consolacion, Cebu were served with a freeze order on Monday morning, March 2, 2020. Police Brigadier General…

IN PHOTOS: Norman Castillo and P6.8-M worth of illegal drugs in red envelopes

Florence Baesa 12/22/2019

DUMAGUETE CITY, Negros Oriental — It is three days before Christmas and the joint forces of drug enforcement authorities in Dumaguete City and Negros Oriental have their eyes set on arresting individuals involved in the illegal drug…

Pickup truck with bullet holes found abandoned in Barangay Busay, owner’s house reportedly burned

Delta Letigio, Paul Lauro 09/25/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines—An abandoned car was found peppered with bullets along the road in Barangay Busay, Cebu City on Wednesday morning, September 25, 2019.  Initial investigation by the Talamban Police found no one inside the bullet-riddled car.…

Police find high powered firearms in the house of confessed drug lord Franz Sabalones

Benjie Talisic 03/01/2019

MINGLANILLA, Cebu – Police recovered high-powered firearms and an explosive in the house occupied by the common-law-wife and young children of drug lord Franz Sabalones in Minglanilla, a town 19.2 kilometers south of Cebu City. The firearms…

‘Drug lord’ shot dead in Cordova

Benjie B. Talisic, Norman V. Mendoza 06/26/2018

An alleged drug lord who was caught with over P200 million worth of drugs in Quezon City in 2015 was shot dead yesterday by unidentified men in Sitio Agad-Agad, Barangay Poblacion, Cordova town. Gary Go, 57, a…

NBI-7 will investigate ambush of suspected drug lord’s lawyer

Futch Anthony Inso 02/19/2018

NBI-7 director Patricio Bernales Jr. said that they will conduct a separate inquiry regarding the ambush of Atty. Jonah John Ungab, lawyer of suspected drug lord Kerwin Espinoza. Bernales, who did not further disclose the wherabouts of…

Lawyer of suspected drug lord ambushed

Ador Vincent Mayol 02/19/2018

CEBU CITY–The lawyer of Rolando “Kerwin” Espinosa Jr., erstwhile biggest drug lord in Eastern Visayas, was shot in an ambush on broad daylight on one of the busiest streets in Cebu City on Monday. Lawyer Jonnah John…

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