Police in this mountain resort city in the north announced a crackdown against so-called youth street gangs on Friday, after it arrested an 18-year-old murder suspect who has been classified as Baguio's Most Wanted.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed criminal charges against the financier of a clandestine 'shabu' (methamphetamine hydrochloride) laboratory in La Union province, Justice Secretary Agnes Davanadera said.
The military has deployed another Marine battalion to the southwest, as President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's 2010 deadline to crush extremist groups there nears, officials said.
Government troops have been clashing with suspected New People’s Army (NPA) rebels in a hinterland village bordering Compostela Valley and Agusan del Sur provinces since 7:30 a.m, Friday, police and military officials said.
Police authorities here on Friday announced the arrest of a man, who was among a group of drug suspects that ambushed a raiding government team last year.
Unidentified gunmen shot dead a bemedalled police investigator while he was walking near his home in Sultan Kudarat town in Maguindanao around 9 p.m. Thursday, the police said Friday.
