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COTABATO CITY --- Hundreds who got duped into investing on what turned out as a multi-million pyramid rent-a-car and money market business want the people behind it locked in jail.Among those now complaining against the Lahdin’s Marketing here, alleged broker of the deals now in question, are Army and police personnel who each invested from P300,000 to P350,000 on what they first thought was a legal money market scheme.Police and Army investigators told reporters Saturday the firm is owned by an entrepreneur named Cassandra, whose parents are ranking employees of the regional office of the

KIDAPAWAN CITY – The officers and enlisted personnel of the Army's 19th Infantry Battalion mourn the passing of two of its members in a highway crash in Arakan, North Cotabato on Thursday.The soldiers remembered the good things of the fallen comrades in a Facebook post.Corporal Vincent Sarona and Private First Class Jeomar Tanboth died when thelocal
government truck they were riding in fell on a 50-feet deep cliff in Arakan,
North Cotabato, police said.

GEN. SANTOS
CITY – Police authorities arrested here a village district leader during law
enforcement operations in Barangay Apopong Thursday morning for possession of an explosive.

Chief Supt.
Eliseo Tam Rasco, police director for SOCCSKSARGEN region, said members of Gen.
Santos City police office and Regional Mobile Force Battalion served search warrants against four wanted persons facing various offenses but only one was
arrested.

KIDAPAWAN CITY –
The Kidapawan City government has completed preparations for this Sunday’s Licensure
Examination for Teachers (LET) where more than 6,400 education graduates are to
take the tests.

In a statement, Mayor Joseph
Evangelista said a total of 6,435 examinees are expected to take the licensure
exam to be held in the city’s five testing centers.

ISULAN, Sultan Kudarat – A suspected drug personality was killed when he resisted arrest by
police operatives during drug buy bust operation in Lambayong, Sultan Kudarat Wednesday
night.

Chief Supt.
Eliseo Tam Rasco, police regional director for Central Mindanao, said Omar
Mopac, a drug personality, fired at law enforcers during law enforcement
operation at 7 p.m. in Sitio Nakan, Barangay Kapaya, Bagumbayan, Sultan Kudarat.

KORONADAL CITY
– One of the seven Filipino seafarers abducted by Nigerian pirates off the
coast of the African nation is from this city.

Gideon Puada,
29, is a resident of Barangay Gen. Paulino Santos, Koronadal City.

Nilo, the
seafarer’s father, said he has no specific information about his son at this
time. We are waiting words from foreign affairs, from the POEA and from the
government, the teary-eyed Nilo said.

A septuagenarian who was at a wrong place at a wrong time when a
shooting occurred in Tulunan, North Cotabato Tuesday has expired in a hospital
in Kidapawan City.

Nelly Nacano, a
73-year-old retired teacher, died from a bullet wound in her abdomen while
undergoing medication at a hospital in Kidapawan City.

Nacano was hit
by stray bullets intended for Chairperson Joemar Almirante, village chief of
Barangay Sibsib, Tulunan, North Cotabato, according to Supt. Bernard Tayong,
police spokesperson.

KORONADAL CITY - At least 30 persons have been hospitalized due to dizziness and headache following an alleged ammonia leak in Dole Philippines plant in Polomolok, South Cotabato.At least 2,000 individuals from villages surrounding the pineapple plant were also evacuated as part of preventive measures, according to the local Red Cross office.Erwin Rommel Del Carmen, chapter administrator Red Cross South Cotabato, most of the victims were rushed to Howard Hubbard Memorial Hospital.

NORTH COTABATO - It was his companions in the military service who gave him away.Agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-12 cornered on Sunday the 42-year-old Sgt.

TACURONG CITY – A Maguindanaon councilor and two of his companions were arrested a
police checkpoint here Saturday for illegal possession of unlicensed firearms.

Chief Supt. Eliseo
Tan Rasco, police regional director for Central Mindanao, said elements of
Tacurong City PNP arrested Norie Maulana Mamalo, a member of Sangguniang Bayan
of Sultan sa Barongis, Maguindanao and two of his companions during Oplan
Lambat Bitag operation along national highway Barangay ECJ Montilla, Tacurong
City.