Drugs and violence: 20 stories of crimes, tragedy in 2019

Dennis Singson 01/01/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — As the year 2019 drew to a close, CDN Digital looks back at the top 20 crimes and stories involving police in Cebu for the year. Cebuanos always open the year with revelry…

Vanzant’s live-in partner testifies in court about deadly Sambag 1 shooting

Rosalie O. Abatayo 05/20/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines—The live-in partner of slain Vanzant Navales took the witness stand as a court started trial on Monday, May 20, 2019, against Michael Bacaltos on the bloody feud that killed three people on January 21,…

Bacaltos’s bid to raise suspect’s homicide case to murder hits another snag

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 05/17/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Another attempt of the family of slain Edwin and Shaun Bacaltos to raise the case of the alleged perpetrator of their deaths, Vincent Navales, from homicide to murder has been denied by a…

Bacaltos family still hoping for justice despite junking of motion for reinvestigation

Delta Dyrecka Letigio, Immae Lachica 04/26/2019

Cebu City, Philippines—Alma Bacaltos, the matriarch of the Bacaltoses, is still hopeful that justice will be served for her late husband and late son despite their petition for reinvestigation being denied by a court in Cebu City.…

Court denies motion for reinvestigation on Navales’ homicide case

Rosalie O. Abatayo 04/26/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines —Presiding Judge Ma. Lynna Adviento of Regional Trial Court Branch 58 in Cebu City has denied the petition of the Bacaltos family to reinvestigate the homicide charge filed against Vincent Navales. Adviento, in her…

Police to file cases against Navales’ three companions

Morexette Marie B. Erram 02/01/2019

  Cebu City, Philippines – The police will be filing murder cases against the three other individuals who were seen accompanying Vincent Navales during a shootout with some members of the Bacaltos family in Barangay Sambag 1…

Charges against Michael Bacaltos downgraded to homicide and attempted homicide

Morexette Marie B. Erram 02/01/2019

  Cebu City, Philippines – The Cebu City Prosecutor’s Office downgraded the murder and attempted murder charges lodged against Michael Bacaltos. Abellana Police Chief Inspector Eduardo Sanchez told reporters in a press interview on Friday, February 1,…

Navales camp says Michael Bacaltos shot his own father

Rosalie O. Abatayo 01/30/2019

  Cebu City, Philippines – Lawyers of the Navales family are claiming that it was Michael Bacaltos who shot his own father during the bloody confrontation between some members of both families last January 21, 2019 in…

Three dead as two former friends’ feud leads to shooting incident in Sambag 1

Benjie B. Talisic 01/21/2019

  CEBU CITY, Philippines — A feud between two former friends ended in a bloody shooting confrontation today (January 21)  in Barangay Sambag 1 in Cebu City, ending in the death of three persons — a father…

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