Cop nabbed with P136k worth of shabu in Badian buy-bust tests negative for drugs

Futch Anthony Inso 08/25/2022

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Philippines — The police officer, who was apprehended in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Poblacion, Badian town, tested negative for illegal drug use. This was confirmed by Badian Police Station on Thursday, August 24, 2022.…

Journalist urges Ombud: Probe Albuera police chief

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 11/09/2016

A JOURNALIST based in Ormoc City, Leyte has filed a string of complaints against the police chief of Albuera town for allegedly coddling a drug suspect connected to Eastern Visayas’ top drug personality Rolando “Kerwin” Espinosa Jr.…

Watch list or witch hunt?

Editorial 09/28/2016

President Rodrigo Duterte’s apology to Pangasinan Rep. Amado T. Espino Jr. and other officials whom he admitted to have been mistakenly included in the second watch list of suspected drug dealers/coddlers during a visit to a shabu…

Siblings caught selling shabu

Chito O. Aragon 09/21/2016

POLICE arrested two siblings for allegedly selling shabu in sitio El Grande, Barangay Cogon in Cebu City at past 11 pm Tuesday The suspects identified as Desiderio Bensulan and Jocelyn Bensulan were caught by the Criminal Investigation…

Duterte’s drug war packs jails to ‘breaking point’ — rights group

08/04/2016

An official of an international human rights group lamented that the “war on drugs” led by President Rodrigo Duterte has further exacerbated the already packed and deteriorating jails in the country. In a statement, Human Rights Watch…

THE RISE OF VIGILANTE KILLINGS

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Jose Santino S. Bunachita, Nestle L. Semilla, Rene F. Alima 07/29/2016

Four suspected drug pushers are dead. Gunned down by unknown masked assailants in separate incidents in Metro Cebu, in just twenty four hours. Another person, also a suspected drug peddler, escaped a slay try, again by unknown…

New PDEA chief vows to hunt down ‘big fishes’ in the illegal drugs trade

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 07/28/2016

AS a new chief takes over its helm, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in Central Visayas (PDEA-7) aims to get the “big fishes” in the illegal drugs trade. “I have the list of their names, and I…

PETER LIM NOT ON WATCHLIST

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 07/09/2016

Loot says when he was Narcom chief, Lim’s name did not appear on list Retired Police General Vicente Loot says Cebuano businessman Peter Lim was not in the police watchlist during his stint as chief of the…

King family denies alleged drug links

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 07/09/2016

The family of slain Cebuano businessman Richard King cried foul over insinuations that he was involved in the illegal drugs trade. Lawyer Deolito Alvarez, legal counsel of the King family, said they were extremely disappointed with the…

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