Five drug suspects fall, another flees

BACOLOD City – Five drug suspects were arrested while another escaped in a sting operation that the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency ( PDEA) and t he Kabankalan City police conducted in Purok Paraiso, Barangay Hi l a monan, Kabankalan City.

The Dec. 13 operation netted r e s i dents Noel Cuenca, John Mark Salazar, Harvey Ledesma, Melvin Cabatu, and Ruben Villaflor, a PDEA spot report showed.

J ose Hupalan eluded arrest, it further stated.

The suspects were caught while they were having a “pot session,” a PDEA agent said.

Recovered f r om t he suspects were 13 sachets of shabu valued at P150,000.

Cuenca, Salazar, Ledesma, Cabatu, and Villaflor were detained at the Kabankalan City police station lockup facility while Hupalan was still at large as of this writing.

They were all f acing charges for violation of Republic Act 9165, or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002./

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BACOLOD City – A man landed in a hospital after being stabbed in Barangay Punta Taytay, a police report showed.

He was the 50- year- old resident Michel Toledo, police said.

Toledo was allegedly stabbed by J ubert Villa using an i cepick on Dec. 13.

Toledo sustained stab wounds on the different parts of the body and was r ushed t o t he Corazon L o c s i n Monte l i b a n o M e m o r i a l R e g i o n a l Hospital in the city.

He was currently under

BACOLOD City – Items worth P43,000 were lost to an unidentified suspect in Country Homes Subdivision in Barangay Alijis.

The 40- year- old J oy Salvador t ol d off i c ers from Police Station 7 that the culprit entered their compound by climbing a wall at the back of her house on Dec. 13.

T h e s u s p e c t t h e n destroyed the plastic door of their kitchen and took a television worth P20,000 and two cellphones worth P23,000, Salvador further told the police.

Police were still identifying and locating the suspect as of this writing./

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treatment, police said.

Vi l l a f l e d a f t e r t he stabbing. Officers f rom Police Station 9 were still looking for him./

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ARCHIE REY ALIPALO/PN City Legal Office Enforcement Unit personnel move items from a stall owned by a sidewalk vendor along Luzuriaga Street in Bacolod City. Vendors are only allowed to use a 1-meter-by-1-meter area when doing business along streets, according to the City...