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Cops seize P1.03-M worth shabu in General Santos City operation
COTABATO CITY (September 24, 2025) — Plainclothes policemen seized P1.03 million worth of shabu from a peddler entrapped in Barangay Dadiangas West in General Santos City on Monday, September 22. City officials, among them members of the multi-sector General Santos City Peace and Order Council, told reporters on Wednesday, September 24, that the now detained…
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2 shabu peddlers dead, cop wounded in clash
COTABATO CITY (September 24, 2025) — Two targets of a police anti-narcotics operation were killed while a policeman was wounded in a brief clash in Barangay Camino Nuevo in Zamboanga City on Monday night, September 22. Local executives and barangay leaders told reporters on Wednesday, September 24, that the slain Harold Elum, 45, and his…
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P3.4-M worth smuggled cigarettes seized by PRO-9
COTABATO CITY (September 23, 2025) — Policemen seized P3.4 million worth of imported cigarettes in separate operations in two Mindanao provinces in just two days. Officials of the Police Regional Office-9 said on Tuesday, September 22, that policemen in a checkpoint in Barangay San Pedro in Tungawan, Zamboanga Sibugay intercepted on Thursday, September 18, a…
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P87-M worth narcotics seized in BARMM operations destroyed
COTABATO CITY (September 22, 2025) — Officials destroyed on Monday, September 22, using an incinerator in a renewable energy plant P87 million worth of narcotics seized in separate operations in the Bangsamoro region in the past three years. The shabu, marijuana and cocaine they burned at the powerplant of the cornstarch manufacturer Lamsan Incorporated in…
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Lamitan City LGU helps fix houses destroyed by storm
COTABATO CITY (September 22, 2025) — The Lamitan City government distributed on Saturday, September 20, construction materials to families whose houses were damaged by the Tropical Storm Wipha, or Bagyong Crising, that ravaged the Philippines and other Asian countries last July. Radio reports on Monday, September 22, stated that the construction materials, comprised of corrugated…
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Motorcycle crash victim, killed, robbed by bystanders
COTABATO CITY (September 21, 2025) — Policemen arrested on Saturday, September 20, a known drug dependent who, instead of helping a motorist who figured last week in an accident, killed and robbed the victim of his money and other belongings instead. Local executives in Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao del Norte told reporters on Sunday, September…
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BARMM supports new ASEAN cross-border anti-crime pact
COTABATO CITY (September 20, 2025) — Two Filipino lawyers, one of them from the Bangsamoro region, participated in a conference of prosecutors from 10 Southeast Asian countries in Indonesia early this week where they forged a compact binding their governments to cooperate in addressing cross-border crimes. Radio reports on Saturday, September 20, in Cotabato City…
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UN agency embarks on pro-poor program in Cotabato province
COTABATO CITY (September 20, 2025) — An agency of the United Nations shall implement a community economic development and livelihood program in two barangays in Cotabato province, officials announced on Saturday, September 20. Provincial officials and Winston Aylmer Camariñas, who is overseeing the activities in Central Mindanao of the United Nations Development Programme, met at…