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| https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1173803 |
The Sandiganbayan sentenced a former employee of the Philippine Veterans Affairs Office (PVAO) to up to eight years in prison for his involvement in the irregular disbursement of checks to his uncle, as well as deceased and fictitious beneficiaries.
Leomar Basuel was also ordered by the anti-graft court’s Fourth Division to pay PHP474,259 in a decision promulgated on April 27 and published online Friday.
Also affirmed was the QC court’s sentence of disqualification from public office.
The Sandiganbayan affirmed the decision of the Quezon City Regional Trial Court Branch 88 against Basuel who, in 1995, took part in encoding and printing pension checks without any legal basis or authority when he was still with the PVAO’s Management Information System Group.
He claimed he made the supplementary checks without any memorandum order because he wanted to help an uncle.
However, aside from his uncle, the investigation showed that Basuel also processed checks for recipients who were already deceased or fictitious.
The Court said Basuel “encoded the entries with a furtive design and not by mistake as he deliberately failed to observe the regular internal procedure” of his office and “encoded such entries knowing that some of the pensioners were already deceased and that he even made fictitious names as payees in the subject checks”.
“His acts were tantamount to evident bad faith as he orchestrated a wrongdoing with a fraudulent intent,” it added.
A former employee of the Philippine Veterans Affairs Office has been sentenced to up to eight years in prison for his involvement in the irregular disbursement of checks to his uncle, as well as deceased and fictitious beneficiaries.
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| https://www.sunstar.com.ph/article/1928279/cebu/local-news/probe-sought-on-vote-buying-by-bebot-using-dole-program |
THE Department of Labor and Employment in Central Visayas (Dole 7) will investigate allegations that outgoing Cebu City South District Rep. Rodrigo “Bebot” Abellanosa used one of the agency’s programs to buy votes.Lawyer Ernesto Rama wrote a letter to Dole 7 on May 2, 2022, asking it to investigate the alleged listing of individuals who were promised that they would become beneficiaries of the agency’s Tulong Pangkabuhayan sa Ating Disadvantaged/Displaced Workers (Tupad) program.Rama said the incident took place in the Abellanosa-owned Asian College of Technology (ACT) and also in Barangays Guadalupe and Mambaling.According to Rama’s letter, the individuals were told to return on a specific date so they will receive P500 as a down payment of their Tupad salary, with the balance to be paid after the May 9 election.“We think the giving of cash as down payment is an act of vote-buying,” said Rama.
A politician is being investigated for alleged vote buying.
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| https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1173843 |
The chief of the Police Regional Office (PRO) 9 (Zamboanga Peninsula) ordered Friday tight checkpoints in Zamboanga Sibugay province after a shooting incident involving a mayoralty candidate.Brig. Gen. Franco Simborio said a political supporter of Siay town mayoralty candidate Mickel Argus was injured when gunmen believed to be followers of a rival candidate fired on Argus' convoy on Thursday afternoon.Simborio said wounded in the incident in Barangay Mahayahay was Juan Abarca Jr., 47, who was hit in the leg and was rushed to the Zamboanga Sibugay provincial hospital.He said before the incident, a political supporter of Argus was involved in an altercation with a rival candidate's supporter.Simborio said the unidentified gunmen aboard two pick-up trucks opened fire as they stopped about 30 meters away from Argus' convoy, hitting Abarca.At least 24 empty shells of an M-16 Armalite rifle, three empty shells of 9-mm. pistols, and two empty shells of a caliber .45 pistol were recovered from the crime scene.
One man was wounded after an unknown gunman fired at the convoy of a candidate for mayor.
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| https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1593447/barangay-captain-3-others-survive-ambush-in-cagayan |
A 69-year-old village chief and three of his relatives survived an ambush in Peñablanca, Cagayan province on Wednesday, a belated police report said on Saturday.
Police Captain Isabelita Gano, Cagayan Valley police spokesperson, identified the victims as Bonifacio Caliguiran, 69, village chief of Nanguillattan; his wife Marvie, 55; son John Rey, 13; and kinswoman Armelante Collado, 34, all of the said town.
They were unscathed in the shooting.
A Barangay captain has survived an assassination attempt.
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| https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1593360/driver-of-campaign-vehicle-wounded-in-cebu-shooting |
A driver of a campaign vehicle is in critical condition after he was shot and wounded by a still unidentified assailant on board a private car in Barangay Liloan, Santander town, south Cebu at past 4 p.m. on Friday, May 6.
Rad Andrade, 33, sustained multiple gunshot wounds in the body and was rushed to a hospital in Cebu City.
Based on a report from the Santander Police Station, Andrade was driving a multicab with a jingle for a local candidate when an unknown person on board a Toyota Vios fired at Andrade.
Members of the victim’s family who were at the back of the multicab were unscathed.
Police were tight-lipped about the identity of the local candidate Andrade was campaigning for while an investigation was being conducted.
A campaign convoy was fired up wounding one man.
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| https://mb.com.ph/2022/05/07/four-dead-four-wounded-in-ilocos-sur-shooting-incident/ |
Four people who were reportedly supporters of two mayoral candidates died while four others were wounded in a shooting incident on Saturday morning in Barangay Labut, Magsingal, Ilocos Sur.
Police Executive Master Sergeant Archie C. Anipot, the duty investigator of Magsingal town police station, confirmed the shooting incident happened at about 7:00 a.m.
Police identified the dead as Recto Bacdayan Bagani, 65, a resident of Ayyeng Manabo, Abra, and an alleged supporter of incumbent Magsingal Mayor Victoria Ina Favis; Lerry Pol Harmon Torda, 41, a resident of Maratudo, Magsingal, Ilocos Sur and an alleged supporter of opposition mayoral candidate Lorry Salvador.
The two others who died in the incident were Jovito Tomaneng, a retired Philippine Army scout ranger, and Alias William Bolilit from Carasi, Ilocos Norte.
The wounded persons were identified as Albert “Abet” Banez a.k.a. Tyson, 39, from San Ramon, Magsingal; and Romnick Villanueva, 25, of Patong, Magsingal. Both are alleged supporters of incumbent Mayor Favis.
The two other wounded were Teofilo Urno Taasin, 39, a resident of Maratudo, Magsingal and driver of vice mayoral candidate Larry Ceria; and Kenneth Salvador Seatriz, 40, the manager of Blu J’s gasoline station. Both are alleged supporters of opposition mayoral candidate Lorry Salvador Jr.
Eight people, all political rivals, engaged in a gun fight. Four of them died and four of them were wounded.
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| https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1173902 |
Gunmen divested a town councilor seeking re-election and one of his supporters of cash and valuables right at the official’s residential compound in Zamboanga del Sur, the police disclosed Saturday.
Brig. Gen. Franco Simborio, Police Regional Office 9 (Zamboanga Peninsula) director, identified the victim as Councilor Alex Aldie Amores, 51, of Tabina town and his supporter, Jeffrey Elisino, 35.
The incident happened in Purok Arbor, Barangay Malim at about 10:20 a.m. Friday.
Simborio said at the time of the incident, political leaders and supporters of Team Dayondon-Poloyapoy were gathering for a meeting when two pick-up trucks arrived and parked in front of Amores’ house.
The team is led by incumbent Tabina Mayor Tirsendo Poloyapoy and Vice Mayor Greg Dayondon.
Simborio said the seven still-unidentified gunmen got out of the two vehicles, barged into Amores’ compound, and demanded everyone to drop while firing their guns into the air.
Three of the seven suspects grabbed Amores’ belt bag at gunpoint. It contained PHP20,000 cash, a bankbook, and other personal belongings.
The gunmen also grabbed the belt bag of Elisino that contained PHP3,000 cash and identification cards before fleeing toward Barangay Lumbia.
Responding policemen recovered 29 empty shells of a caliber 5.56-mm. rifle, two empty shells of a caliber .45 pistol, and nine empty shells of a caliber 9 pistol.
Unidentified gunmen barged into a political meeting firing their weapons and robbing two people.
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| https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1173925 |
Twenty-four people, five of them wounded, were arrested in an alleged encounter between the security forces of reelectionist Mayor Isidro Pajarillaga and his rival, former Mayor Virgilio Bote, in Purok Gulod in Barangay Concepcion, Gen. Tinio town in this province at about 11:30 p.m. Saturday.The names of the suspects were not immediately disclosed.In a report to the provincial headquarters, town police chief Capt. Ronan James Eblahan said five of the arrested persons who got wounded were civilian security personnel of Bote while the 19 belong to Pajarillaga.Eblahan said police forces were conducting checkpoints when they received information about the shooting incident."Upon the arrival of the responding officers, they saw one white Nissan Navarra and gray Ford Raptor both penetrated with multiple gunshots and five wounded personnel of mayoralty candidate Bote," he said in a report.A further search of the place was conducted where a pickup truck yielded five M16 rifles, 11 .45 caliber pistols, three 9mm pistols, one caliber .40 pistol, and one 12-gauge shotgun, police said.Also found in the vicinity of the place of the encounter were one 12-gauge shotgun and one .45 caliber pistol, 71 cal 5.56 live ammunition, 138 cal .45 live ammunition, 41 cal 9mm live ammunition, 12 cal .40 live ammunition, eight shotgun live ammunition, six magazines for the M16 rifle, 26 magazines for pistols, and eight holsters.
Twenty-four people were arrested with five of them wounded after a shootout involving the security detail of two political rivals.
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| https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1593994/zamboanga-del-norte-town-mayors-niece-shot-dead |
A niece of the mayor of Sirawai town of Zamboanga del Norte was shot in Sahaya, Barangay San Vicente on the night of Saturday, May 7.
Police Major Shellame Chang, spokesperson of the Police Regional Office (PRO) 9, said Sitti Warna Pawai Sala, 33, resident of Barangay Sirawai Proper and a job order worker of the Sirawai local government, was shot while inside a house of a relative in Sahaya, Barangay San Vicente on Saturday.
Chang said Sala was a known supporter of Aljzar Janihim, the son of the incumbent mayor of Sirawai, Gamar Janihim, and Sala’s uncle.
“She was sitting beside the open door of the house when suddenly the suspect appeared and shot her in the head,” Chang said, citing the initial investigation report.
The Sirawai town police said the suspect was wearing a police officer’s uniform.
But Police Capt Alexie Palisoc and personnel from the 2nd Zamboanga del Norte Mobile Force Company later found the suspect’s getaway motorcycle at Sitio Maasum of the town’s Barangay (village) San Nicolas where it crashed. The suspect was later arrested.
Police brought the suspect, a certain Anhar Tunggal Montong, 24, resident of the town’s Barangay San Roque, to the Sirawai Health Unit for medical treatment, according to Police Sgt Carding Unding, investigator of the case.
The niece of a local mayor was shot dead by a man in a police uniform. He was later caught, arrested, and confessed to the crime.
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| https://cebudailynews.inquirer.net/440070/police-trying-to-identify-2-gunmen-1-cohort-in-killing-of-olango-brgy-councilor |
Lapu-Lapu City policemen are trying to identify the killers of a Barangay Tungasan councilor in Olango Island late Sunday night, May 8, 2022.Police Major Judith Besas, information officer of the Lapu-Lapu City Police Office (LCPO), said that they were checking all possible angles in the killing of Barangay Tungasan Councilor Jose ‘Sadam’ Quiros on Sunday, May 8.Besas said they were focusing their investigation on finding out the identities of the three men involved in the shooting of Quiros.Initial investigation showed that Quiros was talking to someone inside a food stall in Barangay Tungasan when two unidentified men went inside. Another companion of the two men stood watch outside the food stall as a lookout.A few moments later, the two men shot Quiros without any reason at all. The victim was hit four times.Besas said he did not know yet which part of the body that Quiros was shot at.After Quiros fell down, the three assailants fled on a motorcycle.Police also found out that Quiros had an altercation with someone prior to his shooting.They said that it was about installing a tent in the area.(They found in their investigation on the ground that the councilor had an altercation with someone, allegedly over the installation of a tent. So we would investigate who that person is. We are also taking into account other angles and investigation regarding the shooting incident.)Besas said that the installation of a tent happened at the polling center in the barangay.
A barangay councilor was shot dead by unknown men for unknown reasons.
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| https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1594157/8-hurt-in-maguindanao-grenade-explosions |
Eight persons were hurt when a series of grenade explosions hit the area near the town hall of Datu Unsay, Maguindanao at past 7 p.m. on Sunday, the eve of the polls.
The victims are now undergoing medication at Maguindanao Provincial Hospital in nearby Datu Hofer town, also in Maguindanao, according to Col. Jibin Bongcayao, chief of the Maguindanao Provincial Police Office.
He said four explosions hit Datu Unsay town and another one hit nearby Shariff Aguak town.
Nobody was hurt in the Shariff Aguak blast, town administrator Anwar Emblawa said.
Bongcayao said police probers were still determining the identities of the attackers.
The grenade explosions, believed to be from M-79 launchers, were fired during a power service interruption in the adjacent towns of Datu Unsay, Shariff Aguak, and Datu Hofer.
No one has claimed responsibility for the blasts but it could be election-related, a police officer in Datu Unsay said.
He added that some of those injured were teachers awaiting the release of vote-counting machines and supporters of local candidates. But police had not confirmed their identities.
Grenade attacks in two towns, which are likely election related, have left eight people injured.
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| https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1594361/3-killed-one-hurt-in-gun-attack-near-polling-precinct-in-maguindanao-town |
Three members of a barangay peacekeeping action team (BPAT) in the town of Buluan in Maguindanao were killed while another was injured in a shooting incident near a polling precinct Monday morning, election day.
A report from the 16th Military Intelligence Company (16th MICO) said the gun attack happened at the back of the Pilot Elementary School in Buluan, just after the BPAT members rendered assistance to the polling precinct in the school.
The four BPAT members were on official duty, the report said.
According to the report, the still unidentified gunmen were onboard two white vans that stopped just in front of the BPAT members.
All of the victims were allegedly supporters of reelectionist and incumbent Buluan Mayor Babydats Mangudadatu, the report said.
“Accordingly, two (2) white van vehicles relentlessly fired their guns (believed to be rifles) to the BPATs who were in duty status at Pilot Elem School. After which, the said perpetrators withdrawn to unspecified location,” the 16th MICO said in its report.
“All victims were BPATs identified as supporters of Mayoralty aspirant Babydats Mangudadatu of Buluan, Maguindanao,” it added.
An attack near a polling precinct has left three men dead.
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| https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1173939 |
Allegations of vote-buying reportedly triggered a shooting incident that left four dead in Magsingal, Ilocos Sur on Saturday morning.
Charges will be filed against the two groups composed of supporters of rival mayoral candidates, according to a press briefing at the provincial capitol on Sunday attended by Ilocos Sur Governor Ryan Luis Singson, Ilocos Sur Police Provincial Director Col. Wilson Doromal, and Ilocos Sur provincial election supervisor Alipio Castillo.
Six supporters of mayoral candidate Alrico Favis -- Guillermo Unciano, Agustin Unciano, Dante Tolentino, Archie Garcia, Menelio Oliver Jr, all of Barangay Patong; and Albert Bańez of Barangay San Ramon -- will face murder and frustrated murder charges, while two supporters of rival candidate Lorry Salvador Jr., identified as Teofilo Taasin, 39, of Barangay Maratudo, and Kenneth Salvador, 40, of Barangay Napo, will be slapped with frustrated murder charges.
Initial police investigation showed that the incident stemmed from an alleged vote-buying activity that went out of control.
Investigators said that a group backing Salvador went to Barangay Labut to verify an alleged vote-buying activity and were confronted by supporters of Favis, husband of outgoing mayor Victoria Ina Favis who has slid to vice mayor.
Supporters of one candidate for mayor confronted supporters of the other candidate, accused him of vote-buying, and a shoot out occurred which has left four men dead.
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| https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1173970 |
Top officials of Himamaylan City, Negros Occidental have denounced the violence that claimed the life of a public school teacher on the eve of the May 9 national and local elections.
Mercy Nequia-Miguel, 49, of Barangay Caradio-an, assigned at Himamaylan City National High School and was set to serve in Monday’s polls, was shot to death by unidentified assailants on her way home with her husband at around 8:30 p.m.
Mayor Raymund Tongson said the city government condemns the death of the teacher and ordered the police to “exhaust all efforts to arrest the killers”.
“The motive is yet to be established. Let us wait for complete police investigation report,” he said in a statement posted on Facebook Sunday evening.
Based on the initial police report, the teacher and her husband were on board a motorcycle going home from the public plaza, and upon reaching Crossing Calasa, they noticed that huge stones were blocking their way.
When they attempted to remove the stones, shots were fired by unidentified persons from the roadside, hitting Nequia-Miguel on the abdomen.
She was declared dead by the attending physician at the Valeriano M. Gatuslao Memorial Hospital, the police said. Her husband was left unharmed.
A teacher assigned to serve on the election polls was shot dead by unknown men for unknown reasons.
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| https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1173949 |
Policemen on Sunday seized 10 high-powered firearms and other weapons in a Tawi-Tawi.Aside from the high-powered firearms, authorities also seized a handgun, a baseball bat and other assorted deadly weapons consisting bolos and knives, Maj. Winston Botengan, police chief of Sapa-Sapa municipality, said in a statement Monday.Botengan said the weapons were seized when policemen responded to the reported presence of some 150 unidentified armed men staying at the residence of a local candidate around 1:50 p.m. Sunday in Barangay Top-Top Banaran, Sapa-Sapa.“The responding policemen were about to inquire when a group of individuals suddenly scattered and fled in different directions,” Botengan said, without identifying the candidate.
A cache of weapons was seized from a local candidates house who it appears was raising his own private army.
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| https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/05/09/22/comelec-reports-3-ballot-snatching-incidents-in-basilan |
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) in Basilan reported 3 incidents of ballot snatching in the southern province Monday morning, one of which was successful.
Lawyer Vidzfar Julie, Comelec Basilan's provincial election supervisor, confirmed that a group of men successfully snatched some ballots from Precinct 008CDE in Tipo-Tipo Central School at around 10 a.m.
Julie has yet to disclose how many ballots were stolen from the election precinct.
Security forces prevented another group that tried to snatch other ballots. But the ballots were destroyed after they were drenched by a bottle of indelible ink during the commotion, Julie said.
Soldiers fired warning shots in a third ballot snatching attempt. Suspects threw the ballots in the mud before escaping, the official added.
Julie said recommendations would be made to the Comelec en banc, which would decide if failure of elections in Tipo-Tipo should be declared.
Ballot snatching in Tipo-Tipo could lead to a failure of elections.
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| https://www.philstar.com/nation/2022/05/09/2179861/2-hurt-machete-attack-lanao-del-sur-polling-station |
Three men armed with sharp machetes hacked and seriously wounded two voters in a polling precinct in Saguiaran town in Lanao del Sur at about 8 a.m. Monday.
The victims, Naim Rasdie Macunte, an employee of the Saguiaran municipal government, and Salman Acmad were immediately rushed to the Amai Pakpak Hospital in Marawi City for treatment.
Col. Christopher Panapan, Lanao del Sur provincial police director, said the victims were in the campus of the Maito Basak Elementary School in Barangay Maito Basak, Saguiaran when they were attacked, wounded in the hacking frenzy.
Panapan said witnesses have identified the culprits as Jamil Azis, Mocsir Azis and Samroden Riga, now subject of an extensive joint police-military manhunt.
The incident scared and forced hundreds of voters inside the school campus to scamper away.
Probers from the Saguiran Municipal Police Station said the victims are followers of incumbent re-electionist officials while the three suspects are identified with a candidate for a mayor hostile to the present municipal chief executive.
Three men with machetes attacked a polling station wounding two people.
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| https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/topstories/regions/831068/blast-occurs-in-kabacan-cotabato/story/ |
A blast erupted at a voting center in the municipality of Kabacan, Cotabato on Election Day.
The incident happened around 9:40 a.m., according to a report by GMA News stringer Villamor Magbanua.
Kabacan Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Police Lieutenant Colonel John Miradel Calinga said an improvised explosive device (IED) allegedly exploded along Jose Abad Santos Street at the exit of Kabacan Pilot Central Elementary School, where voters have flocked in for the elections.
The voting was delayed after voters heard of the explosion.
No injuries were reported, but caused fears to voters, as the explosion was also near a public market in Kabacan.
An IED went off at a voting center.
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| https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1173983 |
Voters scampered for safety as gunmen from two opposing parties clashed an hour after polling precincts opened here Monday for the national and local elections.Col. Pedro Martirez, Basilan police director, said the encounter broke out around 7 a.m. in Barangay Boloh-Boloh in the island town of Tabuan Lasa.Martirez said the gunfight ensued after supporters of Boloh-Boloh Barangay Chairperson Jahid Abbas and Alfad Farouck, a candidate for municipal councilor, crossed paths at the village’s public elementary school.“The report disclosed that the group of Alfad Farouck was the first to open fire, prompting the camp of Jahid Abbas to fire back,” Martirez said.No casualty was reported in both camps during the clash that lasted for about two minutes, he said, adding police had to intervene to stop the fighting.Elsewhere in the province, indiscriminate firing of guns was also reported around 11 a.m. Monday in Barangay Bacung, Sumisip.Brig. Gen. Domingo Gobway, Joint Task Force-Basilan, said a group of gunmen supporting a mayoralty candidate opened fire to prevent supporters of an opposing candidate from casting their votes.
A gunfight broke out at a polling station.
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| https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1594810/ex-mayor-of-bohol-town-cries-police-brutality-after-cops-try-to-arrest-him-after-reporting-vote-buying |
A former mayor of Panglao town in Bohol is set to file charges against police officers who allegedly hurt him after asking them to stop an incident of vote buying on election day Monday, May 9.
Toribio Bon, 72, resident of Tangnan village, suffered bruises and said he was also hit in the stomach while trying to stop the policemen from arresting him.
But the police claimed it was Bon who was disrespectful to the police and said he would be charged with direct assault, resistance and disobedience to a person of authority.
According to Bon, he had just cast his vote at Tangnan Elementary School at past 8 a.m. when he saw three men giving out cash with sample ballots along the road in front of the school.
Aghast at the blatant display of vote buying, he told the three men to stop what they were doing. When he was ignored, he went to complain to the six policemen who were just about three meters away.
But the policemen instead asked him if he had evidence to prove vote buying, and this irked the former mayor.
“The police saw the vote buying. Even if they would not reprimand them, these policemen should have at least stopped it,” said Bon.
“The policemen instead got angry at me after I told them if they were blind because it was clear that these men were buying votes,” he added.
The policemen tried to handcuff the former mayor and force him inside the police vehicle, which resulted in a scuffle.
A policeman allegedly hit him in the stomach with the butt of an M16 rifle.
The commotion caught the attention of a local official and a lawyer who told the policemen to leave Bon alone because he was a former mayor and a senior citizen.
It was only then that the policemen left.
In a statement, Lt. Amelito Melloria, chief of Panglao Police Station, said Bon allegedly berated the policemen and pointed a finger at them while shouting, “You, policemen, are blind.”
Bon was asked to stop, but the former mayor allegedly continued berating them and even attempted to spit on one of the policemen.
The police said the former mayor also tried to grab a policeman’s firearm. Bon, however, denied this.
“At my age, do you think I can fight and try to grab a firearm (from a policeman)?” he asked.
A former mayor reported an incident of vote buying and for his trouble the police beat him up.
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| https://www.philstar.com/nation/2022/05/09/2179901/poll-intruder-mauled-death-voters-lanao-del-sur |
A poll intruder who attempted to disrupt the election proceedings was mauled to death by voters inside a precinct Monday morning in Binidayan town, Lanao del Sur, a security official said.
The suspect along with four other cohorts, armed with steel pipes forcibly barged into the polling place in Magonaya Elementary School in Barangay Magonaya to disturb the ongoing voting, said Maj. Andrew Linao, spokesperson of Western Mindanao Command (Westmincom).
Linao said police investigation disclosed the suspects scampered when the voters in the polling center sensed they were not residents and registered voters of the said polling place.
However, one of the suspects was left behind and was mauled to death.
Military and police personnel failed to pacify the volume of voters who joined in mauling the suspect.
Linao said burst warning shots were heard and the suspect was found lying dead later.
Five men tried to disrupt voting at one poling center and one was mauled to death by voters.
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| https://cebudailynews.inquirer.net/440188/barangay-tanod-shot-outside-cebu-city-school |
A few minutes before voting centers closed on Monday evening, May 9, 2022, a barangay tanod was shot by still unidentified perpetrators just in front of the Zapatera Elementary School.Police identified the victim as Brian Mabaga, who was conscious when taken to a hospital, said Police Major Albert Quilitorio, chief of the Parian Police Station.Based on initial information, Quilitorio said that Mabaga was just sitting with some companions when a man arrived and shot him at 6:42 p.m.(A man arrived and he went around him. Tha man was just walking. It was really the victim who was the target because he had companions but it was only him who was hit.)Witnesses in the area claimed that the suspect rode a motorcycle driven by another person. They were accompanied by another man onboard a separate motorcycle.Quilitorio said the victim is a barangay tanod (village watchman) of Barangay Lorega.Mabaga was one of those who helped police in monitoring the polling center at the Zapatera Elementary School on election day.
A barangay tanod was shot and killed by unknown men for unknown reasons.
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| https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1174016 |
One died while five others were wounded when unidentified gunmen shot at a group of voters in Tabuan Lasa municipality as they were coming out of a polling center Monday afternoon.Brig. Gen. Domingo Gobway, Joint Task Force (JTF)-Basilan commander, identified the fatality as Ricardo Fabian, 52, who was killed on the spot.Wounded were Andy Reyes Jr., 30; Narrudin Gadjali, 29; Alnasri Jammang, 29; Bol Madjalis, 48; and Hakim Munib, 38.The victims had just emerged from the polling center in Barangay Tong-Umus, Tapiantana Island, Tabuan Lasa, when the suspects shot them with high-powered firearms at around 2 p.m.Police said they have yet to ascertain the identities of the suspects, who were hiding in houses located near the polling center during the incident.“The gunmen just waited for us to leave the place and started shooting the victims,” Col. Pedro Martirez, Basilan police director, said.Martirez said the suspects fled before the responding JTF-Basilan troops arrived in the area.
Gunmen fired on voters after they exited a polling center.
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| https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1596094/village-councilor-in-quezon-shot-dead |
An unidentified gunman shot and killed a village councilor on Tuesday night in Sariaya town in Quezon province.
Quezon police, in a report, said Apolinario Rivarez, 66, an incumbent councilor in the village of Bignay 2, was drinking liquor inside his house at around 8:25 p.m. when he was shot once in the head, killing him instantly.
The suspect escaped after the shooting.
The police are now conducting further investigation to identify the gunman and establish the motive behind the killing.
A village councilor was gunned down by an unknown man for unknown reasons.
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| https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1174159 |
The police in Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) has filed charges for violation of the Omnibus Election Code against seven persons who allegedly manhandled a poll official and two watchers in Datu Piang, Maguindanao.Brigadier Gen. Arthur Cabalona, BARMM police director, said Wednesday the seven suspects, whose identities were withheld for security reasons, are now locked up at the Datu Piang municipal police station.He said responding police officers immediately arrested the suspects who all barged inside one of the voting precincts in Datu Piang National High School in Barangay Buayan during Monday’s elections.“For still unclear reasons, the suspects attacked the chair of the electoral board and two watchers of a local candidate,” Cabalona said.
