Credit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 07:00:35 +0000
A total of P12.1 million worth of illegal drugs have been confiscated in various operations in Metro Manila, the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) reported. Maj. Gen. Debold Sinas said 549 anti-illegal drug operations were conducted from February 14 to 16. “Out of three days ng operation, ito na po yung result ng nahuli namin […]
Read moreCredit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 06:30:56 +0000
POLICE Lt. Col. Jovie Espenido blamed “failure of intelligence” as the reason behind his inclusion in the drug list. “That is true, maybe failure of intelligence,” said Espenido in a text message to reporters on Tuesday, noting that the influence of other people on high-ranking officials in the Philippine National Police (PNP) may have something […]
Read moreCredit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2019 03:51:00 +0000
OVER P600, 000 worth of crystal meth or shabu was seized from three suspects in separate buy-bust operations in Pasay City. Police arrested on Monday night Maria Theresa Bornales and Lorenzon Oliva Jr, both were listed on the city’s drugs watchlist. Seized were six sachets of shabu weighing 20.5 grams with an estimated street value […]
Read moreCredit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2019 09:17:58 +0000
THE government on Wednesday launched a documentary film tackling President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on illegal drugs, amid human rights concerns about the surge of alleged extrajudicial killings (EJKs) in the country. Secretary Martin Andanar, head of the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO), presented to the media a documentary entitled: “GRAMO”; and a magazine “Saving the […]
Read moreCredit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2019 01:45:27 +0000
OVER P400 million worth of crystal meth or shabu was seized in an apartment in Las Piñas City on Saturday morning. Operatives acted on a tip by Maria Clavo, owner of the apartment, that her tenant allegedly brought drugs into the apartment. Police raided the apartment at 5:15 a.m. and found some 67 kilograms of […]
Read moreCredit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 04:48:48 +0000
AN estimated P400,000 worth of cocaine and P8, 000 worth of crystal meth or shabu were seized from a suspect in Makati City on Tuesday after midnight. The suspect was identified as Robert Baltazar who was apprehended by Makati police in P. Binay St., Barangay Pobacion, Makati City at around 12:30 a.m. The suspect will […]
Read moreCredit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 10:00:34 +0000
VICE President Maria Leonor “Leni” Robredo dared President Rodrigo Duterte to say it to her face if he wanted her out as co-chairman of the Interagency Committee on Anti-Illegal Drugs (ICAD). “Dapat diretsuhin na lang ako, diretso naman ako kausap kung ayaw nyo ako dito [He should tell me straight if he wants me out],” Robredo told […]
Read moreCredit to Author: THE MANILA TIMES| Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 07:36:46 +0000
THE US is ready to support Vice President Maria Leonor “Leni” Robredo in her “new role” as head of the Duterte administration’s war on drugs, its envoy to the Philippines said on Friday. “Congratulations to Vice President @Leni Robredo on her new role as co-chair of the Inter-Agency Committee on Anti-Illegal Drugs,” US Ambassador to […]
Read moreCredit to Author: THE MANILA TIMES| Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2019 09:52:42 +0000
VICE President Maria Leonor “Leni” Robredo will meet with members of the Inter-Agency Committee on Anti-Illegal Drugs (ICAD) this Friday, the new drug czar herself said. In a chance interview with the media on the sidelines of her community visit to Rizal on Thursday, Robredo announced that she and her co-chairman, Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) chief Aaron […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Glee Jalea| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2019 05:30:00 +0000
VICE President Maria Leonor “Leni” Robredo on Wednesday finally accepted President Rodrigo Duterte’s offer to be the co-chairman of the Inter-Agency Committee on Anti-Illegal Drugs (ICAD), with an aim of ending extradjudicial killings until the end of this administration’s term. “Kung ito ang pagkakataon para matigil ang patayan ng mga inosente at mapanagot ang mga […]
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