Retards in the Government 230

 It's your weekly compendium of foolishness and corruption in the Philippine government.

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1505559/retired-army-soldier-shot-dead-in-camarines-sur

A retired member of the Philippine Army was gunned down in Minalabac, Camarines Sur on Friday night, police report said Saturday.

Police Staff Sergeant Ernesto Verdadero  said Edgar Pellosis, 51, was shot by an unidentified gunman in his residence in Barangay (village) Antipolo at around 5:30 p.m.

A witness said the suspect was wearing face mask, black jacket and had long hair.

A retired solider was assassinated by an unknown man for unknown reasons.

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1505905/cop-linked-to-gunrunning-killed-in-masbate-shootout

A police officer suspected to be involved in gunrunning was killed during an entrapment operation in Masbate on Saturday, said the Philippine National Police (PNP).

The PNP identified the suspect as PSSG Garfilo Pahilino Jr., an intelligence operative of the Placer Municipal Station.

According to a police report, operatives of the PNP-Integrity Monitoring Enforcement Group (IMEG) operatives were about to arrest Pahilino in Placer, Masbate after he allegedly sold three .38 caliber revolvers and one Norinco caliber .45 pistol to a poseur buyer.

A shootout happened after the suspect allegedly drew a gun and opened fire at the arresting officers. Police said Pahilino was killed during the shootout.

It is also believed that Pahililno had links to the Bustillos drug group and had operated a protection racket for some drug suspects in the province, said Dongbo.

A cop accused of gun running and with links to a drug gang was killed in a shoot out with the PNP.

 

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1157771

Philippine National Police (PNP) chief, Gen. Guillermo Eleazar on Tuesday, directed the Police Regional Office-8 (Eastern Visayas) to look into an alleged indiscriminate firing involving a policeman who confronted a woman in Balangiga, Eastern Samar.

In a statement, Eleazar said Cpl. Alexander Salazar will face administrative charges once it is proven that he used his service firearm to threaten a civilian.

Salazar, who is assigned to the Hernani Municipal Police Station in Eastern Samar, is detained at the Balangiga lockup cell pending the filing of criminal charges.

Initial reports said Salazar confronted around 2 p.m. Sunday Abby Abrogar in Barangay 01, which the policeman allegedly fired his service caliber-9 mm Beretta to threaten her.

No one was hurt in the incident.

PNP officer fired his weapon at a woman to threaten her.

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1157675

The Bureau of Immigration (BI) on Monday said it is now investigating personnel assigned at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) for supposedly posting videos of themselves dancing or singing while on duty and in uniform on video-sharing app Tiktok.

“I was instructed by Commissioner (Jaime) Morente to hold these errant employees liable by forwarding their cases to our board of discipline for investigation and filing of the appropriate administrative cases,” BI port operations chief Carlos Capulong said in a statement,

Capulong, meanwhile, issued a memorandum on the matter where he warned that those who will defy the measure will face administrative cases for insubordination and misconduct.

He also reminded employees to strictly observe the ban on the use of cellular phones and other electronic gadgets while on duty.

Capulong said the Tiktok videos of BI employees in uniform could not have been taken if they are not on duty at the time, thus it is obvious that they had their mobile phones and gadgets with them.

Bureau of Immigration employees posted videos on Tiktok while on duty in their uniforms.

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1157890

Members of the anti-scalawag unit of the Philippine National Police (PNP) have arrested a police officer for allegedly extorting money from a fruit vendor in an entrapment in Quezon City on Tuesday.

In a statement Wednesday, Brig. Gen. Flynn Dongbo, chief of the Integrity Monitoring and Enforcement Group (IMEG), identified the suspect as Cpl. Myrldon Yagi, assigned at the Quezon City Police District (QCPD) Station 14 in Barangay Holy Spirit.

Yagi was arrested inside the Barangay Holy Spirit Hall Annex after receiving four pieces of PHP500 bill as payment of the complainant in exchange for not dismantling his fruit stand in Barangay Pasong Tamo and to redeem his mobile phone that was forcibly taken by the suspect.

The complainant said he was also mauled and threatened at gunpoint by the suspect, prompting him to seek the IMEG's assistance.

Another cop arrested for extortion.

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1157912

A police manhunt is underway against two “persons of interest” who allegedly shot dead a village councilman and his companion here on Tuesday afternoon.

Lt. Fayeed Cana, spokesperson of the Maguindanao police provincial office, on Wednesday identified the victims as Mansor Andil, 34 village councilor of Barangay Pandag, and Aliakbar Abdulatip, 37, both of Pandag town in Maguindanao.

The victims were on board a motorbike when gunmen on a separate motorbike were seen by several villagers tailing them along the national highway in Barangay Makir at past 4 p.m.

The villagers heard a succession of gunfire and later found two men lying dead beside the highway.

Cana said the two assailants were earlier captured by security cameras suspiciously loitering near the municipal town hall before the shooting.

Lt. Col. Rommel Dela Vega, Datu Odin Sinsuat town police chief, said the victims died on the spot from multiple gunshot wounds.

A village councilman was slain by unknown men for unknown reasons.

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1157906

An official of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) in Region 12 (Soccsksargen) was wounded in a shooting on Wednesday morning in Koronadal City.

Lt. Col. Joedy Lito Guisinga, Koronadal City police chief, said Engr. Normina Pahm, 55, was waiting for a ride to the regional office inside an apartment compound in Block 1, Mabini Street in Barangay Zone 4 when she was shot at around 7:20 a.m.

He said Pahm, the assistant regional director for the administrative services division of DOST-12, sustained a gunshot wound on her right shoulder and was immediately rushed to the South Cotabato Provincial Hospital.

“She is now in stable condition and undergoing further treatment,” the police official said in a radio interview.

Citing accounts from witnesses, he said Pahm was sitting in a steel swing with two other co-workers standing nearby when a still unidentified male suspect casually approached her and opened fire twice using a handgun.

One of the bullets hit the victim while her two other female companions were unharmed. The suspect hastily left the scene after the shooting.

An employee of the Department of Science and Technology was wounded in an attempted assassination.

https://cebudailynews.inquirer.net/408552/cosap-4-cebu-city-hall-employees-1-brgy-worker-fail-drug-test

Four Cebu City Hall employees and another barangay employee have failed the surprise drug test and have proved positive for illegal drug use.  

The City Office for Substance Abuse Prevention (COSAP) conducted a series of drug tests since October 27, 2021.  

John Jonah Rodriguez, COSAP head, said that these individuals would go through the proper process with the City Legal Office (CLO).  

Among the four city hall employees, three are from the City Agriculture Department (CAD), with a regular, a casual, and a job-order employee.  

The fourth City Hall employee was a newly hired job-order employee assigned at the Division for the Welfare of the Urban Poor (DWUP). 

The barangay employee is a loader at Barangay San Jose.

Four Cebu City Hall employees and one barangay worker tested positive for drugs.