It's your weekly compendium of foolishness and corruption in the Philippine government.
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| https://www.manilatimes.net/2021/04/30/news/regions/ncotabato-vice-mayor-escapes-slay-attempt/868587/ |
Vice Mayor Cristobal Cadungon of Antipas town, this province, has blamed politics for an assassination attempt on his life at 1:44 in the morning last Wednesday, April 28, when his family’s residence was showered with bullets.
Before the shooting, according to the vice mayor, an unidentified person could be seen trespassing in front of his house on the evenings of April 19 to 21 based on a closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage.
Cadungon immediately reported the incidents to the police on April 23 but the latter allegedly did not act on the matter.
Fortunately for him, the vice mayor said, he was lying down on his bed during the gunfire and as a result, he and his wife did not sustain any injury.
Only the windows of the house were damaged by the bullets.
Another attempted assassination of a Vice Mayor.
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| https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1138675 |
A police officer was nabbed for alleged extortion in an entrapment operation in Cagayan province on Friday.Brig. Gen. Thomas Frias, chief of the Philippine National Police-Integrity Monitoring and Enforcement Group (PNP-IMEG, identified the suspect as Staff Sgt. Arphie Bryan Tuliao.He was arrested during an entrapment operation along V8 Gas Station located along Barangay Camasi in Peñablanca town.He added the operation stemmed from the IMEG Luzon Field Unit’s intelligence report that Tuliao is asking PHP40,000 each from the four suspects who were earlier arrested during a police operation against illegal gambling, particularly "sabong" or cockfighting.Tuliao allegedly demanded the amount in exchange for not filing the case in court against the offenders. Frias added that it was later reduced to PHP12,000 after several transactions among the parties involved.
Another cop busted for extortion. He demanded money in exchange for not filing a case against four men caught in illegal cockfighting.
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| https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1138701 |
A mayor in Maguindanao who maintained a private armed group (PAG) has voluntarily surrendered, along with his men and firearms, to the police in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM).
“This is to serve as an example to other PAGs in the Pagalungan area,” Mayor Salik Mamasabulod of Pagalungan, Maguindanao said in a phone interview with reporters here Saturday.
On Friday afternoon, Mamasabulod dissolved his PAG and surrendered to the police.
A mayor and his private army surrendered to the police in the BARMM. No word on what will happen to them.
A member of the Public Order and Safety Division (POSD) in Baguio City has been suspended and is under investigation after he pulled out a knife while arresting a motorist.
In a report on GMA News "24 Oras Weekend" on Saturday, it was said that the video of an argument between a jeep driver and POSD personnel went viral on Facebook.
The POSD chief said the jeep was illegally parked on the street.
The POSD personnel were about to remove the license plate from the jeep and give the driver a ticket when one of their personnel immediately pulled out a knife.
The driver quickly entered the jeep, took a pipe and then chased the enforcer.
The driver and enforcer eventually confronted and reconciled, where the driver admitted he had made a mistake.
The enforcer was suspended while the incident was being investigated. He refused to give a statement.
A traffic enforcer pulled out a knife and ran after a jeepney driver. They later reconciled but the enforcer is now being investigated.
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| https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1426295/masked-gunmen-kill-capiz-town-administrator |
Two masked gunmen shot dead a Capiz town administrator in Roxas City, the provincial capital, on Sunday afternoon.
John Heredia, a long-time and well-known journalist in Capiz before he was appointed administrator of Pilar town, succumbed to multiple gunshot wounds.
Heredia, 54, had just come out from a hardware store in Barangay Lawa-an when he was repeatedly shot as he was about to board his vehicle.
He was executive producer and host of the cable television program “Abri Aga.” He also wrote for community newspapers.
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines said Heredia was a former national director and chairperson of its Capiz chapter.
Lawyer Criselda Azarcon-Heredia, the victim’s widow, confirmed that her husband had received death threats but did not elaborate.
“Let the police investigation (take) its course,” she told reporters in Roxas City.
Criselda, a member of the National Union of People’s Lawyers, escaped unharmed from an armed attack in September 2019 in Sigma town in Capiz after her vehicle was fired upon by assailants in another vehicle.
A former journalist appointed as town administrator was assassinated by unknown gunmen. His wife said he had received death threats and she herself survived an assassination attempt in 2019. Police are not sure if the two events are related but it's highly likely.
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| https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1138865 |
A personnel of the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) and three others were arrested in separate anti-drug operations in this city and in Zamboanga del Sur, a top police official said Monday.Brig. Gen. Ronaldo Genaro Ylagan, Police Regional Office-9 (PRO-9) director, identified the arrested PCG personnel as Zulpicar Tan, 32, a native of Tawi-Tawi province, who was arrested in a buy-bust operation around 12:30 a.m. Monday in Barangay Cawit here.Tan yielded some PHP2,500 worth of suspected shabu and PHP200 marked money, police said.
A member of the Philippine Coast Guard has been busted for drugs.
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The incumbent barangay captain of Bagacay in Dauin town in Negros Oriental died after gunmen entered the barangay hall this morning.
The victim was Chief Barangay Stephen Bandoquillo Alam.
During the Dauin PNP investigation, Alam was immediately stabbed in the head by three unidentified persons at the barangay hall and shot several times in the head.
A barangay captain was killed inside the barangay hall.
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