Peace and Order

COTABATO CITY – Anti-narcotics agents seized P102,000 worth of shabu from three operators of a clandestine drug den entrapped in Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao del Norte Sunday.

Rogelito Daculla, director of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, said Monday Raymond Villa Duhaylungsod, 37, Jerome Albet Olivares, 27 and the 32-year-old Noriel Carte Bakod are to be prosecuted for violation of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.

Our ancestral village of Nueva Vida in Mlang, Cotabato, where every family's child is the community's own, is mourning the death of Police Officer Rudy Amihan who was killed while chasing a group of holdup men who earlier robbed a small eatery and killed a civilian yesterday afternoon.

SSgt. Amihan, who was Toto to all of us in the village, responded to an alarm raised following the holdup and killing incident and led the team that blocked the criminals' escape route towards nearby Tulunan town.

MLANG, North Cotabato - Umakyat na sa apat katao ang nasawi kasunod ng nangyari hold-up sa Brgy. Bagontapay, M’lang, North Cotabato ngayong hapon.

Isa ring pulis ang nasawi sa naturang insidente kasunod ng isinagawang pursuit operation.

Patuloy pang inaalam ng Radyo Bida ang pagkakakilanlan ng mga nasawi.

KUMPIRMADONG isang pulis ang napatay sa sa pagtugis ng awtoridad sa mga suspect sa robbery hold up sa Bagontapay, M'lang, Cotabato kaninang alas 3:00 ng hapon.

PINAWI ng Cotabato City Police ang pangamba ng publiko sa harap ng sunod-sunod na kaso ng pamamaril sa lungsod at tiniyak na ginagawa nito ang lahat ng paraan upang matiyak na ligtas ang bawat Cotabatenio.

Sa panayam ng Radyo Bida kay Cotabato City Police Spokesperson Lt. Col. Carmelo Mungkas, sinabi nito na walang dapat ikabahala ang mga residente ng lungsod dahil laging nakahanda ng tropa ng PNP sa pagresponde sa anumang krimen.

Patunay aniya rito ay ang pagkasawi ng dalawang riding tandem suspects na namaril ng isang lalaki sa Sinsuat Avenue.

DATU ODIN SINSUAT, Maguindanao - Alerto police arrested Sunday night a man who acted suspiciously while drive a mini-van and approaching a police checkpoint in Barnagay Dalican here.

Lt. Colonel Nelson Madiwo, municipal police chief of Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao, said police operatives arrested Norodin Kasan Lumanggal, 37 years old, a resident of Barangay Dinaig, Datu Odin Sinsuat town.

Seized from his van were one Colt AR-15 Riffle, one M16 Elisco rifle, extra magazines loaded with bullets, handheld radios and two mobile phones.

COTABATO CITY --- An innocent farmer was killed in a clash by rival members of the Moro National Liberation Front and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in the hostile Pikit town in Cotabato. 

Lt. Col. John Meridel Calinga, chief of the Pikit municipal police, said Wednesday Nasser Sagubakan Batuwag, 25, died on the spot from multiple bullet wounds. 

Calinga said Batuwag was trapped in the crossfire Tuesday in Barangay Balatican in Pikit between the groups of Commander Gampong of the MILF’s 105^th Base Command and Commander Wali who belong to the MNLF.

COTABATO CITY - Anti-narcotics agents seized P221,000 of shabu from four dealers, two of them women, who fell in a sting Wednesday in Marawi City.

The suspects, Hashim Saber Aragasi, 38, Khominie Baraacal Sabdullah, 36, and their female cohorts, Aminah Carim Eppie, 34, and Diamona Datu Simban Aragasi, 36, are now detained at the Marawi City Police Office.

COTABATO CITY - A man killed with a pistol a teacher and popular cartoonist in an interior barangay in Lebak town in Sultan Kudarat late Saturday.

Lt. Col. Julius Malcontento, chief of the Lebak Municipal Police Station, said the victim, Benharl Capote Kahil, 27, died from seven gunshot wounds in different parts of his body.

Malcontento said Kahil was attacked by a man, armed with a 9 millimeter pistol, in Sitio Langganasi in Barangay Pasandalan, Lebak on Saturday night.

Malcontento said Kahil was a school teacher.

COTABATO CITY - A municipal election officer who was heading for home after a Friday prayer was shot and injured by still unidentified along a busy street here Friday noon.

Atty. Udtog Tago, Maguindanao provincial election supervisor, said the victim, Raufen Mangelen, election officer of Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao was to buy banana at a roadside fruit stand along Gov. Gutierrez Avenue when attacked by a lone gunman.

DATU MONTAWAL, Maguindanao – Nag-alok ng halagang P300,000 reward money ang local government ng Datu Montawal sa sinumang makapagbibigay ng impormasyon na ikadarakip ng mga pumatay kay Councilor Mubarac “Moby” Abubakar.

Ang pag-aalok ng reward money ay kinumpirma Datu Montawal Mayor Otho Montawal.

Si Councilor Abubakar ay binaril sa ulo at katawan ng di pa nakikilalang mga suspect habang ito ay buimibili ng isda sa gilid ng national highway sa Barangay Pagagawan, Datu Montawal, Maguindanao tanghali noong lunes.