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Wanted crime gang boss falls

CAMP PRESIDENT QUIRINO, Ilocos Sur – Chief Superintendent Ricardo C. Marquez, director of police in the Ilocos region, announced yesterday the arrest of a suspected leader of a notorious organized crime group and most wanted person at a checkpoint in Barangay Say-oan, Bacnotan, La Union last week. Incoming search terms:bacnotan (5)bacnotan la union (2)bacnotan la union philippines... 

Organized crime

UNITED NATIONS (AP) – Although the flow of cocaine through West Africa has declined, its wholesale value in Europe is a staggering $1.25 billion, the United Nations said in a report circulated Monday.  Read More »

NBI to submit shooting report

Manila, Philippines – The mystery surrounding the checkpoint shooting that killed 13 persons in Atimonan Quezon last month may be made known this week as the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) led by Director Nonnatus Ceasar R. Rojas is set to submit their comprehensive report on the incident to President Benigno Aquino III on Wednesday.  Read More »

6 Taiwanese deported and blacklisted

By ANJO PEREZ Manila, Philippines – Immigration officials deported yesterday six Taiwanese back to their country for alleged involvement in numerous credit card fraud cases which is in violation of the country’s cyber crime law. The six deportees boarded China Airlines flight CI701 bound for Taipei which left the country at 10am. Incoming search terms:news in taiwan about blacklisted... 

Impartial investigation

Manila, Philippines – Malacañang assured yesterday that the alleged involvement of the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (PAOCC) would not adversely affect the probe currently being conducted by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI).  Read More »

Illegal mission

Manila, Philippines – “It was an illegal operation.” The Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (PAOCC) did not approve a confidential police operation against a suspected “jueteng” (an illegal numbers game) operator in Quezon, Executive Secretary Paquito N. Ochoa Jr. said yesterday.  Read More »

Detained alien dies of dengue

CAMP GEN. VICENTE LIM, Laguna – One of the foreigners who were arrested by police for cyber fraud charges died of dengue Sunday night, a medical police officer said. Supt. Cleto Manongas, chief of the medical dispensary of CALABARZON Police, said Xiao Ming Yo, 39, died at 9 p.m. Sunday due to cardiac arrest after suffering low blood platelets based on the fi ndings of the doctors... 

Online swindlers

Manila, Philippines – The Philippine National Police has formally lodged criminal complaints against the 357 foreigners accused of duping their compatriots of cash in an online scam before the Department of Justice. Incoming search terms:republic act 8484 (1) Read More »

14 bodies found inside SUV

Mexico City – The bodies of 14 men were found Thursday inside a SUV on the outskirts of the central Mexican city of San Luis Potosi, state authorities confirmed. ”Apparently they were shot dead, and every thing indicates that organized crime was involved,” Gabriela Gonzalez, a spokeswoman for the state’s public prosecutor’s Office, told dpa.  Read More »

Cotabato crime gang member falls

KABACAN, North Cotabato ­ – Authorities arrested here a notorious member of an alleged organized crime group (OCG) operating in North Cotabato and other parts of Southwest Mindanao after a running gun battle, around 12:30 p.m., Monday, a police official said.  Read More »