Peace and Order

MAGUINDANAO --- Two drug traffickers who doubled as guns-for-hire were killed in a shootout with police agents in Datu Odin Sinsuat town in this province Sunday.

Adrian Amando and Anthony Balleque, who sustained gunshot wounds in different parts of their bodies, were declared dead on arrival by attending physicians at a hospital in nearby Cotabato City.

COTABATO CITY --- The military is targeting to neutralize a group of Islamic State-inspired hitmen responsible for the never ending killings of off-duty soldiers in the city and nearby towns.

Among the latest fatalities in the continuing attacks on unsuspecting unarmed soldiers is Corporal Pacifico Obillo of the 5^th Special Forces Battalion based in the city.

Criminology graduate, huli sa anti-illegal drug operation sa Tantangan, SoCot

TANTANGAN, S. Cotabato - Huli sa isinagawang anti-illegal drug operation ng Provincial drug Enforcement Unit (PDEU) at Tantangan Municipal Police Station ang isang lalaki sa Purok 3, Brgy n Felipe, pasado alas 7 lunes ng gabi.

Kinilala ang nahuli na si Jason C. Cainglet, taga Koronadal City.

Nakuha kay Cainglet ang isang sachet ng pinaniniwalaang dahon ng marijuana, P500 marked money, cellphone at isang motor na ginagamit umano ng suspek sa pag bebenta ng ilegal na droga.

COTABATO CITY -- Three drug suspects, two apprehended in a checkpoint, led to the seizure of PHP10,000 worth of shabu, a firearm, and eventual arrest of the drug supplier in Datu Anggal Midtimbang, Maguindanao on Friday.

In a report, Maj. Alexander Butuan, acting town police chief, identified those arrested as Harriking Kimpo Amat, 21; and Juhari Pandora Edzlama, 22; both of Barangay Makir, Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao, and Abdulsalam Pakan Indag, 41, of Barangay Brar, Datu Anggal Midtimbang town.

COTABATO CITY -- Authorities shot dead a longtime jail escapee and arrested his accomplice, following a shootout in Midsayap, North Cotabato on Thursday.

In a report Friday, Brig. Gen. Eliseo Tam Rasco, director of Police Regional Office 12 (Soccsksargen), identified the slain fugitive as Thorag Sandalan Sabal alias Erick Pasanggalan, and his arrested companion as Nasser Makabangen Usman.

GENERAL SANTOS CITY --- A courier of a large drug syndicate fell in an entrapment Monday in Barangay Apopong here, barely a week after his five cohorts were arrested in nearby Koronadal City.

Melvin Cortal was caught in the act of turning over methamphetamine hydrochloride (shabu) to agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-12 in a sting laid with the help of the city police and local officials.

Tatlo katao kabilang ang dalawang kawani ng DENR 12 sugatan sa pamamaril ng riding tandem sa Koronadal City.

Kinilala ng Koronadal City PNP na pinamumunuan ni Police Lt. Col Rey Egos ang mga biktima na sina Hazna Potri Sabdulla at ina nitong si Bai Mariam Sabdullah, kapuwa administrative officers ng DENR-12, kapuwa nakatira sa Purok Clemente Barangay Zone 4, Koronadal City.

Sugatan din ang tricycle driver na si Kenneth Lozada.