Gun-for-hire, tagged in killing lover’s hubby, nabbed in Cebu City

Emmariel Ares 09/06/2024

CEBU CITY, Philippines – A man from Cebu City will be spending some time in jail after he was identified as the suspect behind the killing of the husband of his affair partner. The suspect was also…

Teenage ‘gun-for-hire’ nabbed in Mambaling, Cebu City

Emmariel Ares 09/03/2024

CEBU CITY, Philippines — A 19-year-old man, identified by the police as a gun-for-hire, was arrested during a buy-bust operation in Sitio Badjawan, Barangay Mambaling, Cebu City, on the evening of Monday, September 2. The Mambaling police…

Gun-for-hire killed in shootout with Waterfront police

Futch Anthony Inso 07/16/2024

CEBU CITY, Philippines – A man, who is believed to be a gun-for-hire, was killed in a shootout with personnel of the Waterfront Police Station Monday night. The suspect was identified as Santiago Yu alias “Tiago,” a…

Charges filed against policeman’s killers and two accomplices

Emmariel Ares 11/24/2023

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Police have filed charges against the two suspects, who allegedly murdered a policeman, and the two barangay tanods who allegedly helped them escape from police by giving them a ride a barangay vehicle.…

Gun-for-hire nabbed for shooting bus conductor in Cebu City, hunt for main culprit continues

Emmariel Ares 11/03/2023

CEBU CITY, Philippines – A gun-for-hire was arrested by police for being one of two alleged suspects in the shooting to death of a bus conductor in front of a garage in Barangay Mambaling, Cebu City on…

Gun-for-hire group members nabbed in Bohol, P300K shabu seized

Emmariel Ares 10/20/2023

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Members of a suspected gun-for-hire group that is based in Bohol landed in jail after they were caught by authorities during a buy-bust operation early on Thursday morning, October 19,2023. The anti-illegal drugs…

Degamo slay a ‘remnant’ case of private armies — Ejercito

Daniza Fernandez 03/14/2023

MANILA, Philippines — The killing of Negros Oriental Governor Roel Degamo is a “remnant” case of private armies, Senator JV Ejercito said on Tuesday. Ejercito, chairperson of the Senate committee on local government, noted that there is…

Police file charges vs man whose vehicle yielded several firearms in Argao

Mary Rose Sagarino 03/08/2023

MANDAUE CITY, Philippines – Mandaue City police are now preparing charges against a casino lender who was arrested in Argao, Cebu with various high-powered firearms. Rolando “Enting/Titing” Pantinople, 46, was arrested in his residence in Sitio Malacorong,…

Police tag two slain suspects in Taptap shootout as ‘cult members’

Pegeen Maisie M. Sararaña 06/14/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Police tagged two of the three slain suspects in the shooting in barangay Taptap here as cult members. Police Lieutenant Colonel Wilbert Parilla, the deputy director for operations of the Cebu City Police…

Buy bust in Tejero: Ex-convict, gun-for-hire arrested 

Alven Marie Timtim, Paul Lauro 03/09/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines—Police revealed that the two high-value individuals arrested in a buy bust operation in Barangay Tejero on Monday afternoon, March 9, 2020, were reportedly an ex convict and a gun-for-hire.  This was what members of…

‘Member’ of gun-for-hire group killed in Brgy San Roque, Cebu City

Alven Marie Timtim and Paul Lauro 02/25/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The man who was killed by a motorcycle tandem in Barangay San Roque, Cebu City at around 10 p.m. on Monday, February 24, 2020, was a member of a local gun-for-hire group, said…

Pelare: Buried body in Talisay identified; 4 ‘gun-for-hire’ suspects nabbed

Alven Marie A. Timtim 11/29/2019

  CEBU CITY, Philippines — What happens when a suspected illegal drug supplier fails to heed a request of members of allegedly a gun-for-hire group in Cebu? Well, the suspected drug supplier ends up getting killed and…

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