PNP steps up campaign vs ‘jueteng’
By Marlon Ramos
The brushed up campaign of the Philippine National Police against the illegal numbers game “jueteng” has so far collared close to 300 individuals.

The brushed up campaign of the Philippine National Police against the illegal numbers game “jueteng” has so far collared close to 300 individuals.

Police shot dead a suspect in the Maguindanao massacre when he resisted arrest and engaged them in a gun battle in Datu Unsay, Maguindanao, while another suspect was arrested in a separate operation in another town of the province, authorities reported on Saturday.

Seven victims of human trafficking, six of whom were minors, have been rescued by authorities in remote towns in Quirino and Isabela provinces, police said Tuesday.

Another suspect in the Maguindanao massacre fell into government hands in a remote village in North Cotabato, the police said.

Lumber products valued at P10 million were seized by a team composed of policemen and the Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Office (Penro) from a warehouse in Barangay (village) Paknaan, Mandaue City, in a raid conducted around 1 p.m. Wednesday.

Police authorities had validated suspicions that some small-scale miners were using industrial-grade cyanide, which may have been illegally acquired, in the processing of gold ore they mine from mining areas in Zamboanga del Sur.

A concerned citizen has helped police arrest three suspects involved in credit card fraud Sunday, the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) said Tuesday.

Police and military operatives arrested on Thursday a suspected member of the Abu Sayyaf in Zamboanga City, a police official said on Saturday.
DNA test results of items owned by kidnap-homicide suspect Bella Ruby Santos showed no traces of bloodstains from slain kidnap victim Ellah Joy Pique. The disclosure of the DNA test results by the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group in Central Visayas (CIDG-7) caused Santos’ lawyer Rameses Villagonzalo to declare that the case against his [...]

Police and soldiers arrested a Moro rebel-turned-assassin who was wounded after he engaged them in a gunfight in Cotabato City on Thursday, the Philippine National Police’s Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) said Friday.

The authorities have finally caught up with the most wanted man in the Ilocos region who had been in hiding for 15 years since the murder of a politician in Ilocos Norte, the police Philippine National Police’s Criminal Investigation and Detection Group said Thursday.
No tempest at the top, only tattles down below.
Members of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) have a copy since last year of the warrant of arrest against two women, one of whom they claimed they tried to rescue last week from kidnappers.