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3 men busted in PDEA-9 drug den raid
COTABATO CITY (Thursday, September 4, 2025) — Agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-9 and policemen clamped down three men in whose hideout in Barangay Lunzuran in Zamboanga City they found P115,600 worth of shabu in a search operation on Wednesday night, September 3. Bryan Babang, director of PDEA-9, told reporters on Thursday, September 4,
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Shabu dealer killed in South Cotabato police operation
COTABATO CITY (Thursday, September 4, 2025) — Policemen shot dead an elusive large-scale peddler of marijuana and shabu in an anti-narcotics operation in Barangay Colongulo in Surallah, South Cotabato on Tuesday, September 2. Municipal officials and barangay leaders confirmed to reporters on Thursday, September 4, that the slain 39-year-old Stephen Dubria Dagismol was a longtime
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18 Dawlah terrorists, 2 NPAs surrender in Central Mindanao
COTABATO CITY (Wednesday, September 3, 2025) — Another group of Dawlah Islamiya members and two New People’s Army guerillas had surrendered to military officials and local executives in separate rites in two provinces where they each pledged allegiance to the government. The 18 violent religious extremists first turned in their combat weapons and explosives to
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Father, son killed, P1.6-M shabu seized in police operation
COTABATO CITY (Tuesday, September 2, 2025) — A 52-year-old father and his son were killed in a gunfight with policemen who had procured from them P1.6 million worth of shabu in an entrapment operation on Monday, September 1, in Barangay Bongued in Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao del Norte that turned awry. Local executives and ranking
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3 in family killed in Maguindanao del Norte ambush
COTABATO CITY (Tuesday, September 2, 2025) — Gunmen killed a 34-year-old ethnic Maguindanaon farmer, his wife and their adolescent daughter in an ambush on Monday, September 1, in Barangay Nalinan in Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao del Norte. Municipal officials and ranking personnel of the Datu Odin Sinsuat Municipal Police Station told reporters on Tuesday, September 2,
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Dawlah Islamiya’s fund keeper arrested
COTABATO CITY (Monday, September 1, 2025) — Policemen arrested the wife of a Dawlah Islamiya leader, handling funds for procurement of components for improvised explosive devices obtainable in local establishments, in an operation near the Cotabato Airport in Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao del Norte on Monday morning, September 1. The 31-year-old Jasmiya Camsa Ibrahim, a
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Drunk cop kills live-in partner with service pistol
COTABATO CITY (Monday, September 1, 2025) — A drunk off-duty policeman shot dead his live-in partner and wounded her mother in a gun rage in their house in Barangay Zone 3 in Digos City on Sunday night, August 31. The suspect, Patrolman Orland Porquido Dinoy, 30, who was immediately disarmed and detained by barangay officials
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Grenade blast rocks Cotabato City village
COTABATO CITY (Sunday, August 31, 2025) — Two men riding a motorcycle together blasted before dawn Saturday, August 30, a fragmentation grenade near the residential yard of a barangay official overtly supporting the law-enforcement activities of the police in this city. Col. Jibin Bongcayao, director of the Cotabato City Police Office, told reporters on Sunday,