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…

Police say drug suspects killed in Taptap could be part of big-time drug group  

Pegeen Maisie Sararana 06/11/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The head of the Philippine National Police Drug Enforcement Group (PDEG) here said they received reports that the three suspects who were killed in a joint operation late Thursday night, June 10, 2021,…

PRO-7 director Ferro to criminals: ‘You have no place here’ 

Immae Lachica 02/12/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines—Police Brigadier General Albert Ignatius Ferro, the chief of the Police Regional Office in Central Visayas (PRO-7), warned criminals to stay away from the region now that he’s in charge. Ferro said this during a…

New PRO-7 RD vows to remove ‘environment’ that tolerates illegal drugs proliferation

Alven Marie Timtim 02/07/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The conduct of buy-bust operations is not enough to address the proliferation of illegal drugs in Central Visayas, said Police Brigadier General Albert Ignatius Ferro. Ferro, who assumed as director of the Police…

Habal habal driver moonlights as drug courier nabbed

Benjie Talisic 06/27/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — A habal-habal driver will have to spend his 37th birthday next month in jail after he was arrested in an anti-illegal drug operation on Wednesday, June 26, along Natalio Bacalso Avenue in Barangay…

Boy caught with P300K shabu in T. Padilla bust

Benjie B. Talisic 04/30/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — At least P300,000 worth of suspected shabu was confiscated from a 17-year-old boy in a police operation in F. Villa Street, Barangay T. Padilla, Cebu City on Monday, April 29. The boy was…

Four Cebu City drug busts in 7 hours yield P6.9M shabu

Benjie B. Talisic 04/26/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Nearly P7 million worth of suspected shabu was confiscated in four separate drug operations in a span of seven hours in Cebu City on Thursday, April 25. At past 1 p.m., Jose Alex…

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