Full of remorse, a witness surfaced to confess he could have helped save the life of murdered Department of Interior and Local Government municipal officer Ayres Napire had he acted decisively when he saw her crying for help and struggling inside the car of the suspected murderer, a government prosecutor revealed Thursday.
Police arrested a barangay (village) councilor for carrying illegal drugs and an unlicensed firearm Wednesday morning in his house in Bauan, Batangas.
Four suspects in a Baseco shooting were killed while a barangay tanod (village watchman) was in critical condition after a shootout with police around noon of Easter Sunday in Port Area, Manila.
Marlon Recamata, the triggerman in the Gerry Ortega murder case, is facing a new murder case in Quezon province that could land him in a similar jail facility where his companion, Dennis Aranas, died under mysterious circumstances.
Exactly a week after the assassination of a lady mayor outside a Quezon City inn, one of the suspects in the ambush of Maconacon, Isabela, mayor Erlinda Domingo has turned himself in to authorities.
The Philippine National Police (PNP) said on Monday it would summon four private security agencies providing security to SM Megamall in Mandaluyong City following Saturday night’s daring jewelry heist carried out by six robbers inside the establishment over the weekend.
A man long wanted for the 2005 murder of a barangay (village) chairman in Antique province was arrested Monday morning at his house in Quezon City.
Sacked Calabarzon Police Regional Director James Melad insisted on Wednesday that the Atimonan, Quezon operation that led to the deaths of 13 people, had the blessings of the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (PAOCC) headed by Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa.
Chief Superintendent James Melad, the regional director of the Calabarzon police, accepted on Wednesday the decision of Malacañang to relieve him from his post in the wake of the controversies surrounding the police operations in Atimonan, Quezon and in San Juan, Batangas that led to the deaths of a total of 14 people linked to crimes.
Malacañang confirmed on Tuesday that the preventive suspension of officials of the Police Regional Office 4A, as announced by Interior Secretary Mar Roxas, had the blessing of President Aquino.
A suspected grenade thrower was killed Thursday night while another suspect was arrested during a follow up police operation shortly after a grenade exploded inside the residential compound here of the mayor of a nearby town.
Justice Undersecretary Francisco Baraan III has cited the need to review the cases filed against suspected Abu Sayyaf members linked to various crimes.
Quezon City policemen shot and killed late Saturday afternoon a 36-year-old man who tried to escape after he was arrested for allegedly stealing a mobile phone.
