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IT engineer held at Iloilo airport over bomb joke
An information technology engineer from Batangas was arrested at the Iloilo International Airport in Cabatuan town on Thursday night over a bomb joke......»»
P21.8 million smuggled cigarettes seized; 7 Chinese, 26 Pinoys held
Thirty-three people, including seven Chinese, were arrested as smuggled cigarettes worth P21.85 million were seized in Barangay Adia in Agoncillo, Batangas on Thursday......»»
New DA chief: Major onion smuggler arrested in Batangas
An alleged large-scale onion smuggler was arrested in Batangas recently, Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. announced yesterday......»»
Man held for ‘sextortion’
A man was arrested in Batangas City on Wednesday night for allegedly threatening to post nude photos of a 23-year-old woman on Facebook......»»
Cable theft in Skyway structure foiled
A security officer of the Skyway Operation and Maintenance Corporation arrested a 42-year-old man caught in the act of stealing a bare copper cable wire early dawn Friday at Skyway Stage 3, Quirino exit near the corner of Pedro Gil Street, Barangay 800, San Andres Bukid, Manila. The suspect, identified as Aurelio Palustra, 42 of 28 Batangas Line Street, Barangay 800, San Andres Bukid, Manila, is now detained at the MPD Precint 8. His two companions managed to escape. Seized from the suspect were 14 meters of bare copper wire which cost an estimated P23, 520, hammer, chisel which is used as a tool for stealing cable wires. According to security guard Rexenor Dagui and Aureleus Leonardo Cagande they saw the suspect 3:39 a.m. and his two companions while in the act of stealing the items. The security guard tried to arrest the three suspects but was unable to keep the three that the two managed to escape. Police is set to file charges for violation of Article 308, RPC (Theft) against the suspect at the Manila City Prosecutors Office. The post Cable theft in Skyway structure foiled appeared first on Daily Tribune......»»
2 accomplices in Batangas village chief’s slay nabbed
Two alleged accomplices of the suspects in the killing of a barangay captain in Taal, Batangas on Tuesday have been arrested......»»
2 arrested in San Juan, Batangas released
Tanggol Batangan, a Batangas-based human rights group, reported the release of Jose Escobio and Junald Jabonero who were arrested last Aug. 24. The post 2 arrested in San Juan, Batangas released appeared first on Bulatlat......»»
Community organizer, driver illegally arrested in Batangas
Batangas-based human rights group Tanggol Batangan said that the detained individuals were Ernesto Baez Jr., farmer advocate and organizer of Samahan ng Magbubukid sa Batangas (Sambat), jeepney driver Jose Escobio, and his friend Junald Jabonero. The post Community organizer, driver illegally arrested in Batangas appeared first on Bulatlat......»»
‘Snatcher’ caught, rats on cohort
Operatives of the Manila Police District-Station 4 have arrested a reportedly notorious motorcycle-riding “snatcher” in Sampaloc, Manila. The suspect was identified as Wilfredo Quirimit, 39, of Batangas Street, Tondo, Manila. He is married and unemployed. The victim was a 21-year-old student and resident of Sampaloc, Manila. The police said yesterday that the victim was walking along Carola Street when two men on a tricycle suddenly appeared behind her. One of the men got off the tricycle and forcibly grabbed her cellphone. The two men then fled the scene. The victim reported the incident to the España/Blumentritt Police Community Precinct with the follow-up operation resulting in the arrest of Quirimit. The police recovered the victim’s cellphone from the suspect, who was detained at the MPD-Station 4. The police are still searching for Quirimit’s accomplice whom he already identified. The post ‘Snatcher’ caught, rats on cohort appeared first on Daily Tribune......»»
De Lima co-accused ordered transferred to Munti jail
The Muntinlupa City Regional Trial Court on Wednesday disclosed that it has ordered the transfer of Jose Adrian “Jad” Tamson Dera — a co-accused of former Senator Leila de Lima in a drug case — from the National Bureau of Investigation detention cell in Manila to the Muntinlupa City jail. Judge Abraham Joseph B. Alcantara of the Muntinlupa RTC issued the order on a petition filed by the NBI as he also granted the motion of the NBI for Dera to attend the 5 July 2023 hearing of the Senate Committee on Justice and Human Rights “on the alleged unauthorized trips of said accused outside the NBI Detention Facility.” “Accordingly, the Chief of the Security Management Section, the NBI, is directed to turn over the body of the living person of accused Jose Adrian Dera y Tamson to the Muntinlupa City Jail Male Dormitory, Tunasan, Muntinlupa City who is ordered to take custody of said accused during the pendency of the case and until further orders from the Court,” the RTC’s order stated. The court also ordered to bring accused Dera to the Senate hearing of the Committee on Justice and Human Rights with security escorts and upon proper coordination with the appropriate office of the said committee. To recall, Dera and six security personnel are facing a criminal complaint before the Department of Justice. They were arrested last 21 June while returning to the NBI detention facility in Manila after having gone out. Charges were filed against them for bribery, corruption of public official, infidelity in the custody of prisoner, and graft and corruption. The complaint though has yet to be resolved by the DOJ panel of prosecutors. Meantime, Dera on Wednesday admitted to senators that he was able to leave the NBI facility several times during the Senate justice and human rights investigation. According to Dera, he was able to leave the NBI’s detention facility on 20 January 2022 to have himself checked in a hospital in Manila. This was authorized by a court order dated 10 December 2021. He added that he was able to leave the detention facility for the second time to go to another hospital and have his heart checked, but this time he had no approval from the court. The third time that he was able to leave the NBI was on Father’s Day this year and the fourth time was on 20 June, reportedly for a date, where he and five NBI jail guards were nabbed. But during Senator Francis Tolentino’s interpellation, Dera also confirmed claims that he was also able to Calatagan, Batangas but he said he cannot recall the exact date. He also admitted going to Tagaytay City with other NBI officers. Dera, however, denied going to Subic contrary to some reports. WITH LADE JEAN KABAGANI The post De Lima co-accused ordered transferred to Munti jail appeared first on Daily Tribune......»»
Illegal firearms dealers collared
Operatives from the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group have arrested an active cop and his cohort for selling illegal firearms and ammunition in Sto. Tomas City, Batangas. CIDG director Maj. Gen. Romeo Caramat Jr. on Friday identified the suspects as PSMS Carlito Chavez Escorsa Jr., PNP Personnel assigned at Sto. Tomas CPS and Ramil Funtanar Esperanzate, a former security guard, who were arrested by the operatives of CIDG Batangas Provincial Intelligence Unit, together with the PNP-IMEG and other local PNP operating units under the Oplan “Paglalansag Omega” in Barangay San Antonio, Sto. Tomas City. “These suspects are using social media or online communication to sell unlicensed firearms, which came to our knowledge so we conducted a buy-bust operation which was successfully carried out,” Caramat said. He added that the two suspects are facing charges for violation of RA 10591, or the Comprehensive Firearms and Ammunition Regulation Act. Seized from the suspects were one M16 Rifle (Colt); five pieces of long steel magazine for M16 rifle; two pieces of short steel magazine for M16 rifle; two pieces of ammunition guide for M16 rifle; 67 rounds of ammunition for M16 rifle; two pieces of cellular phones; one genuine P500 together with the boodle money; and one cloth bag. The arrested individuals and confiscated evidence were brought to CIDG Batangas PFU Office for documentation and proper disposition. The post Illegal firearms dealers collared appeared first on Daily Tribune......»»
Vice mayor assumes as Batangas town OIC
The vice mayor of Mabini in Batangas yesterday assumed as officer-in-charge of the town after the incumbent mayor was arrested on charges of illegal possession of firearms and explosives......»»
Batangas town mayor charged with illegal possession of explosives
A mayor in Batangas who was earlier arrested for alleged illegal possession of explosives was presented for inquest proceedings before the Department of Justice. Members of the Philippine National Police brought Mabini Mayor Nilo Villanueva to the DoJ main office in Manila yesterday following his arrest last Saturday, 17 June. Atty. Cipriano Asilo, counsel of Villanueva, confirmed the inquest proceedings, a summary investigation conducted by a prosecutor on a criminal charge involving a person arrested and detained without a warrant of arrest issued by a court. The lawyer said his client no longer sought the conduct of a formal preliminary investigation. He said they will wait for the outcome of the inquest and then they will take the necessary legal action. According to police, a suspected explosive device was found in the mayor’s home in Barangay Santo Tomas by operatives of the PNP-CIDG National Capital Region while implementing a search warrants issued by Antipolo City Regional Trial Court Branch 74 Executive Judge Mary Josephine Lazaro. Operatives of the PNP-CIDG-NCR also raided on 17 June the houses of the mayors two brothers, Santo Tomas Barangay Chairman Bayani Villanueva and Oliver Villanueva, both of whom were also arrested and will face charges of illegal possession of firearms and explosives. Seized in the house of Oliver in Barangay Pulong Niogan were a caliber .22 pistol, caliber .45 pistol, two magazines for a caliber 5.56mm rifle, three magazines for a caliber .45 pistol, a hand grenade, 16 rounds of ammunition for a caliber 5.56mm rifle, and 55 rounds of ammunition for a caliber .45 pistol. On the other hand, the police seized from the house of Bayani a Bushmaster caliber 5.56mm rifle, a magazine for a caliber 5.56mm rifle, 10 rounds of ammunition for a caliber 5.56mm rifle, and a MK2 hand fragmentation grenade. The post Batangas town mayor charged with illegal possession of explosives appeared first on Daily Tribune......»»
Batangas town mayor held for guns, explosives
A municipal mayor and his two brothers, one of them a barangay chairman, were among four people arrested for illegal possession of firearms and explosives in raids on their houses in Mabini, Batangas yesterday......»»
In defense of Our Lady Mediatrix of all Grace
This is a reaction to the CBCP position that appeared in a PhilStar article dated 29 May 2023 concerning Our Lady Mediatrix of All Grace, as articulated by Bishop Pablo David, CBCP president. This open letter is in defense of Our Lady Mediatrix. The article was headlined, “Vatican has Spoken on Lipa Apparitions.” The article began, “The Vatican has already ruled on the alleged apparitions of Mary Mediatrix of All Grace in Lipa, Batangas in 1948.” Bishop David says there was “no sign of supernatural character or origin.” In other words, the Mediatrix issue was an open and shut case. The article, however, did not take into account the history that had been omitted and about which the Vatican was silent. That needs to be mentioned here to avoid a false picture. The Vatican’s Confederation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the most powerful Church office that investigates alleged apparitions, created a commission of eight Filipino bishops in the 1950s, led by then Bishop Rufino Santos (later a Cardinal), to investigate the Mediatrix apparitions in Lipa. The findings were unanimous. All the bishops declared the Mediatrix apparitions authentic. But under extreme pressure from the Apostolic Nuncio, the diplomatic representative of the Vatican in the Philippines, the bishops were forced to reverse their findings. This was discovered only years later when one bishop, on his deathbed, recanted his reversal. All the other bishops also recanted later, throwing a monkey wrench into the Vatican-led study that said the apparitions were not authentic. There was a move to set the record straight with another investigation — about which Pope Francis was aware — but that proposal was ignored and never materialized. Instead, Vatican and CDF elements began an intense campaign to suppress the Mediatrix phenomenon that has lasted more than eight decades to this very day. The original miraculous Mediatrix statue was hidden in some cellar. Other statues were destroyed. The miraculous rose petals that had religious images on them were burned, destroying the very evidence needed for future investigations. Those that escaped the medieval-style iconoclasts are now secretly hidden somewhere. Novena pamphlets, stampitas, and religious materials were burned, including the precious diary that contained the first-hand account of visionary Sister Teresing Castillo. A second diary was written before she died and which is available on the internet. Many bishops of Lipa were “exiled” to remote dioceses or forced to resign through the decades for their support of the Mediatrix. The entire Philippine Church, fearing repercussions, was forced into silence, except for a few brave souls. Despite all this, the Virgin prevailed. When the bishops fell silent, the laity, immune to Vatican repressions, took over. Taking a cue from a CBCP declaration that Mediatrix devotion was allowed despite the apparitions having been declared as non-authentic, the devotion spread like wildfire. About 80 life-size Mediatrix statues were distributed to dioceses nationwide, especially in Mindanao, where Mediatrix miracles mushroomed. Lay Mediatrix groups sprouted everywhere. Nobody could stop the Virgin. The statements of the CBCP and Bishop David are understandable, as they cannot defy the Vatican. Any defiance is tantamount to “schism,” a denial of the Papacy and of the Church itself. Fr. Jose Syquia, chief exorcist of the Archdiocese of Manila, and his assistant, Fr. Winston Cabading, are an example of overzealous loyalty to the Vatican, which is also understandable, but only up to a point. They cannot make fun of Our Lady. That was why Fr. Cabading was arrested based on the charges filed by Mediatrix devotee ex-justice Harriet Demetriou. In her second diary, Sr. Teresing wrote that she withstood the tortures by the devil of a foul smell and bruises on her arms. Satan fears the Philippine Church as the launch pad of Our Lady Mediatrix for the Church evangelization of Asia, especially China, where there is now a Mediatrix statue in Nanjing. The triumph of the Virgin over Satan today was prophesied in the Book of Genesis 3:15, when God told Lucifer, “I will put enmity between you and the woman (Our Lady) and between your offspring and hers (Jesus). Her offspring shall crush your head, and you will bruise his heel.” eastwindreplyctr@gmail.com The post In defense of Our Lady Mediatrix of all Grace appeared first on Daily Tribune......»»
Anti-crime ops net 31 suspects
The Philippine National Police-Criminal Investigation and Detection Group disclosed on Wednesday that its operatives arrested 20 persons in an intensified one-day anti-criminality operation across the country which led to the recovery and confiscation of several pieces of evidence and the suppression of illegal activities. CIDG chief Brig. Gen. Romeo Caramat said 25 operations were conducted on Tuesday, resulting in the apprehension of 31 individuals and the seizure of evidence worth P719,045. Caramat said under the campaign against wanted Persons or Oplan Pagtugis, there were 19 manhunt operations that ended in the arrest of eight Most Wanted Persons, two of whom were classified as Regional, three as Provincial, three as Municipal, and the arrest of 11 Other Wanted Persons. He added that one suspect was apprehended during the two police operations undertaken that resulted in the seizure and surrender of two firearms under Oplan Paglalansag Omega or the campaign against loose firearms. On Oplan Bolilyo or the campaign against illegal gambling, five suspects were collared, and the confiscation of bet money amounting to P4,045 while one operation was conducted against the illegal refinery/manufacturing of LPG resulting in the arrest of a suspect and the seizure of evidence worth P15,000. In the campaign against unlawful destruction of natural resources or Oplan Kalikasan, one police operation was conducted that led to five arrests and the confiscation of evidence with an estimated value of P700,000 in Barangay Balagtas Batangas City, Batangas. Caramat said the CIDG is mandated to take full action against crimes that are exhausting the country’s natural resources until those responsible are held accountable under the law. The post Anti-crime ops net 31 suspects appeared first on Daily Tribune......»»
Fake cop held for extortion
A man who posed as a policeman was arrested for alleged extortion in Talisay, Batangas on Monday......»»
Suspect in Compostela, Cebu stabbing nabbed
CEBU CITY, Philippines — Compostela police successfully arrested on Tuesday, September 13, 2022, the suspect of a stabbing incident in Barangay Cabadiangan, Compostela town, northern Cebu. Police Lieutenant Andrew Rellanos, officer-in-charge of Compostela Police Station, identified the suspect as Albert Bautista, of legal age, a native of Batangas City but is renting a house in […] The post Suspect in Compostela, Cebu stabbing nabbed appeared first on Cebu Daily News......»»
Albay criminal gang member falls
LEGAZPI CITY - Authorities arrested a member of a criminal group in Albay during a manhunt in Tanauan City, Batangas on Tuesday.In a report on Wednesday, Maj. Malu Calubaquib, Police Regional Office-Bicol (PRO-5) spokesperson, said members of the Libon Municipal Police, Police Intelligence U.....»»
Ex-Batangas vice governor nabbed for VAWC, illegal arms raps
MANILA - The Philippine National Police-Anti Cybercrime Group (PNP-ACG) arrested a former vice governor of the province of Batangas on charges of violence against women and children (VAWC) and illegal possession of firearms.In a statement on Monday evening, ACG officer-in-charge, Brig. Gen......»»