Wanted person nabbed while getting police clearance in Cebu City

Futch Anthony Inso 11/06/2024

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Cebu – Elberto Maximo, 48, visited the Mabolo Police Station at around 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday to secure a police clearance that he would use in applying for a job. But he ended up in…

Toledo double murder suspect nabbed

Futch Anthony Inso 12/12/2023

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Cebu-   The suspect in the killing of a father and daughter in Toledo City has been arrested and has admitted to the crime. Kevin Avelis, 31, expressed anger towards the family of the victims, identified…

Remulla, citing ‘reliable source’, says Teves may return to PH Wednesday

Tetch Torres-Tupas 05/16/2023

MANILA, Philippines — Suspended Negros Oriental Representative Arnolfo Teves Jr. may return to the country Wednesday, according to Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla citing an information coming from a reliable source. Remulla said he considers the source…

Bantag to Remulla: I will not surrender until you resign

John Eric Mendoza 11/15/2022

MANILA, Philippines — Suspended Bureau of Corrections director general Gerald Bantag on Monday said he would not surrender until Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla steps down from his post. Bantag was alleged to be involved in the…

Police officer tagged as one of suspects in Barangui-an murder case surrenders

Pegeen Maisie M. Sararaña 02/22/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — A police officer has surrendered to the City Intelligence Unit of the Lapu-Lapu Police Station past 10 p.m. on Sunday, February 20, 2022, after his name surfaced as one of the suspects in…

Wife, 9 others facing murder case for brutal death of cook

Pegeen Maisie M. Sararana and Paul Lauro 06/07/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Ten individuals including the wife, father-in-law and mother-in-law of a 31-year-old cook, who was found dead in a barangay in Tabogon town in northern Cebu last July 2020, are accused of killing the…

3 suspects in ex-convict’s murder surrender in Alcoy

Pegeen Maisie M. Sararana and Paul Lauro 01/30/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Three persons whom police tagged as the prime suspects in the murder of an ex-convict have surrendered to the Alcoy Police Station at 6 p.m. on Friday, January 29. The three were believed…

Suspect in killing of Cebu lawyer wants to turn state witness

Pegeen Maisie M. Sararaña 01/19/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Fausto Edgar Benigno Peralta, the confessed triggerman in the murder of Cebu lawyer Joey Luis Wee, has expressed his desire to turn state witness. Peralta was arrested in Laguna last December 8, 2020,…

Construction worker shot dead by lone gunman in NegOr

Florence Baesa 04/14/2020

DUMAGUETE CITY, Negros Oriental- A construction worker was shot dead by a lone assailant on board a scooter while on his way to work at 12:00 noon, Tuesday, April 14, 2020, in Sitio Kapagongan, Barangay Poblacion, Zamboanguita,…

‘Jealous’ man from Liloan town kills lover

Alven Marie Timtim and Paul Lauro 12/15/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines  — The suspect in the killing of a woman in Sitio Mahayahay, Barangay San Vicente in Liloan town early on Saturday morning, December 14, has surrendered to the police. But Eldie Orquiza, 27, has…

‘Marijuana cultivator’ jailed for killing neighbor in Brgy Adlaon in 2012

Alven Marie A. Timtim 11/13/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines –A marijuana cultivator from the mountain barangay of Adlaon in Cebu City was finally collared by the police on Tuesday afternoon, November 12, 2019, or seven years after he went into hiding to avoid…

No more hiding for two suspects of Gisela Boniel’s case

Delta Derycka C. Letigio 09/12/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — They hid from authorities for more than a year. But on Thursday, September 12, at 1:45 p.m., Lobo Boniel and Allan Delos Reyes, Jr. entered the premises of Camp Sergio Osmeña, the headquarters…

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