Minor caught with illegal drugs in San Nicolas

Benjie Talisic 01/24/2019

  Cebu City, Philippines – A minor was caught with illegal drugs in a buy-bust operation in Sitio Tabay Barangay Basak San Nicolas on Wednesday night, January 23, 2019. The Mambaling Police Station, headed by its station…

Boholano fisherman loses way at sea because of rain, rescued in Argao

Doris C. Bongcac 01/04/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines – A fisherman from the municipality of Loon in Bohol province is now taking temporary shelter at the Argao police station after he was rescued from the waters of Barangay Looc, Argao late this…

8 rescued from human trafficking at Naia

Inquirer.net 12/17/2018

MANILA, Philippines — Eight Filipinos leaving for Cyprus guised as tourists were saved by the Bureau of Immigration (BI) from suspected human trafficking at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Naia) on Saturday, the agency said Monday. The…

NCRPO: 535 street beggars rescued during holiday season

Inquirer.net 12/16/2018

Manila, Philippines — More than 500 indigenous individuals begging on the streets this Christmas holiday were rescued by authorities following various operations that were conducted around Metro Manila. According to the data of the National Capital Region…

12 rescued after motorbanca capsizes

Futch A. Inso 11/27/2018

Daanbantayan rescue personnel fished 12 persons from Lapu-Lapu City from their municipal waters after the motorbanca which they boarded on their way to Samar capsized. The accident happened around 9 a.m. on Tuesday at the vicinity of…

Hostages rescued in a 4-hour hostage drama in Barangay Tisa, Cebu City

Benjie B. Talisic 11/17/2018

After four hours of negotiation, the hostage-taking incident in Sitio Caduloy Riverside, Barangay Tisa, Cebu City ended peacefully with the arrest of the suspect. The four hostages – the mother, wife and two sons of hostage taker…

14-year-old twins rescued from 2 foreigners

Nestle L. Semilla 10/31/2018

  POLICE arrested two foreigners and their Filipina cohort after authorities rescued the 14-year-old female twins living with them in Asturias town in northwestern Cebu. John Herman Carder Jr., 76, and Jim Dean Syfert, 52, were arrested…

Minor rescued, 3 others nabbed in Talisay drug bust

Benjie O. Talisic 10/23/2018

  Three men were arrested while a minor was rescued during a drug bust in Talisay City, Cebu on Tuesday afternoon (Oct. 23). Police identified the suspects as Melchor Aguilar, 36; Jay-Ar Callao, 21; Jojo Caparas, 20,…

Trapped quake survivors rescued after days in rubble

Asia News Network, Inquirer.net, Jakarta Post 10/02/2018

Jakarta — A woman in Sigi regency, Central Sulawesi, has been rescued after being trapped for more than 48-hours in the ruins of her house, which crumbled when a 7.4 magnitude earthquake jolted the province last Friday.…

Two girls rescued; two men nabbed for human trafficking

Benjie B. Talisic 09/25/2018

A mother’s plea for help from authorities in Liloan town to find her 13-year-old daughter, who was allegedly sold for sex, ended in the rescue of the girl and a 17-year-old girl, and the arrest of two…

13 trekkers rescued from Osmeña Peak

Morexette Marie Erram 09/14/2018

Personnel from the Dalaguete Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (DDRMO) safely brought down 13 tourists from Manila who trekked the Osmeña Peak in Dalaguete town despite the bad weather. Baltazar Tribunalo, PDRRMO head, said that the…

12 minors rescued in Lapu hazing

Jessa Mae O. Sotto and Paul Lauro 09/10/2018

AT least 12 minors were rescued while three persons were arrested for reportedly conducting an initiation rite inside an abandoned house in Sitio Bag-ong Silangan, Barangay Mactan in Lapu-Lapu City on Sunday night, the police said. SPO1…

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