As Alvaro “Barok” Alvaro began spilling the beans on what the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) now described as a major drug syndicate operating in and out of Cebu, security around him has likewise tightened, even while…
IN turning himself over to the Mandaue City police, 29-year-old suspected drug dealer Pablito Loberanis admitted that he was scared by President-elect Rodrigo Duterte’s declaration of all-out war against drug syndicates. “Nahadlok na ko sa patakaran karon…
HONG KONG — A Hong Kong activist whose beating by police was caught on video was sentenced yesterday to five weeks in prison on charges related to the confrontation, stirring outrage among pro-democracy supporters. Local broadcaster RTHK…
A day after he was meted 50 years imprisonment, the adopted son of Councilor Socrates Fernandez was able to get a sigh of relief after he cleared in another case. The court exonerated Joavan Fernandez of direct…
Dumpit told Cebu Daily News in a phone interview that his bail was already paid by lawyer Ben Militar on Wednesday afternoon. He will be released from the Leyte Regional Penitentiary (LRP) in Abuyog town in Leyte…
Haarlem, the Netherlands — With crime declining in the Netherlands, the country is looking at new ways to fill its prisons. The government has let Belgium and Norway put prisoners in empty cells and now, amid the…
CEBU Gov. Hilario Davide III promised to build another jail facility if reelected to a second three-year term in next year’s elections. Davide and Vice Gov. Agnes Magpale visited the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC)…
Authorities on Thursday seized the largest haul of methamphetamine hydrochloride (“shabu”) inside the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) during the 21st “Oplan Galugad” operation. “We recovered the shabu at the ceiling outside of the dormitory of Building 5,…
THE lives of Oscar Abellana and his son Osbert changed after they decided to file charges against Joavan Fernandez. In 2009, they stayed in a safe house of the Department of Justice (DOJ) for fear that the…
A 36-year-old detainee facing drug charges removed his handcuffs and slipped past his two police guards while confined in a government hospital in Tuburan town, northwest Cebu. On Friday morning it was discovered that Dindo Sato Naingue…
SEOUL, South Korea — A South Korean court yesterday suspended the prison term of the former Korean Air executive whose onboard “nut rage” tantrum delayed a flight last year, immediately ending her incarceration. Cho Hyun-ah, who is…
A measles outbreak was declared at the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) where 42 inmates were suspected to have suffered from the virus since June 16. Laboratory tests conducted last Friday by the regional health…
