NEGROS ORIENTAL CELL SITE BOMBED

UNIDENTIFIED suspects have blown up a telecommunication cell site in central Philippine province of Negros Oriental, police said on Tuesday. Philippine National Police spokesman Chief Superintendent Agrimero Cruz Jr. said that the suspects bombed Monday night the cell site of Globe Telecommunications in Hilaitan village in Guihulngan town. He said that investigation was ongoing.

NAZARENE PROCESSION REPRISE

SAMAL, Bataan: Devotion to the Black Nazarene is no monopoly of the Catholic Church. Members of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente (IFI) or Aglipay in Samal, Bataan showed their devoutness to the black image in a procession on Monday before dusk. Rev. Father Jaime Enriquez, Aglipay parish priest, led the long procession around the town that started at the IFI Church past 4:00 in the afternoon. Joining the procession were men and women, with children, mostly in maroon-colored T-shirts. Men carried on their shoulders three big replicas of the Black Nazarene on platforms while some women carried in their arms small reproductions of the image. Aside from candles, portable electric generators were on standby for the night. A small group of brass band provided music to the devotees. After the procession, a Holy Mass followed.

BUY-BUST TURNS INTO GUNFIGHT, 1 DIES

ONE person was killed while two others were wounded when Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency ( PDEA) agents conducted a buy- bust operation in Wao, Lanao del Sur that resulted into a firefight and the arrest of three other notorious drug personalities in the area. PDEA Director General Undersecretary Jose S. Gutierrez, Jr. identified the arrested suspects as Minda Ontawar, alyas Inang; Kadaffy Mimbalawag; and Bocari Abubakar, all residents of Kili- kili, Wao, Lanao del Sur. He further identified the fatality as alias Mike and the wounded as Baulo Ontawar, alias Ulo, and Tochi Cagas. Gutierrez said operatives of PDEA Regional Office in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao ( PDEA- ARMM) supported by the 8th Infantry Battalion, 4th Infantry Division of the Philippine Army ( PA), conducted an entrapment operation against target drug personalities in Kili- kili, Wao, Lanao del Sur when collaborators of the suspects engaged the operating team in a firefight which lasted for 15- minutes. “We are fortunate that we did not have any casualties on our side,” Gutierrez said, as he lauded the operating team, led by PDEA ARMM Regional Director Edwin Layese, adding that members of the operating team were aware of the considerable risks involved when they conducted the operation in what is considered as an “untouchable area” in Lanao del Sur, because of the existence of private armed groups (PAGS) in the community. Gutierrez said this is not the first time that elements of PDEAARMM penetrated PAG- infested areas in Muslim Mindanao. Last year, PDEA, with the support of the Philippine Army and the Philippine National Police, neutralized a total of three shabu tiangges and 19 drug dens in Cotabato, Maguindanao, and Marawi. CAMP BADO DANGWA, BENGUET: A cellphone technician was nabbed while in the act of peddling shabu to police authorities acting as buyers of the illegal drug over the week. Police Supt. Adonis Bangyay Guzman, of the Regional Anti Illegal Drugs Special Operations Task Group (RAIDSOTG), identified the suspect as Anthony Dollente Pangilinan, 32 , single, of No. 90 Green Water Village, Baguio City. He was arrested at a waiting shed at Lualhati, Baguio City on January 04, 2012 at about 5:30 PM, for violation of Republic Act 9165 or known as Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2001 by a team led by SPO2 Raymond Tacio, in coordination with the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency and elements of Police Station 3 in Baguio City. Confiscated from the suspect was a sachet of methamphetamine hydrochloride (Shabu) weighing approximately 0.5 gram with an estimated Dangerous Drug Board value of P3,000, a Samsung cellular phone unit and a P1,000 Bill with serial number LX071631. BACOOR, Cavite: Three suspects disguised as clients robbed the Gintong Gabay Finance Corporation at Km 17 E. Aguinaldo Highway Panapaan 4, here. Victims Wendy Anonuevo, 28, cashier, of Dasmariñas City and Randy Forbes, 37, program assistant, also of Dasmariñas City recounted that at about 2:30 p.m. the suspects who pretended as clients entered the office of Minerva Castillo Y. Gomez, 58, of Ayala Alabang. One of the suspects pulled out his 9mm and announced a holdup. The suspects took P31,000 cash, credit cards and valuables from the victims and fled aboard a motorcycle towards Kawit, Cavite. The victims positively identified one of the suspects through verification from CCTV files recorded in previous robbery incidents.

TECHNICIAN HELD FOR PEDDLING SHABU

THREE ROBBERS CART AWAY P31,000