drugs

Cops kill motorcycle thieves in shootout in Quezon City

Two unidentified men who had allegedly stolen a motorcycle were shot dead by Quezon City policemen and Highway Patrol Group (HPG) operatives on Saturday morning near the University of the Philippines Diliman campus. According to the police,…

GrabExpress driver with P300K worth of cocaine nabbed after arrest of ‘customer’

A GrabExpress driver who was allegedly delivering cocaine was arrested on Monday early morning after one of his customers—an I.T. support employee nabbed a day earlier—pointed him as his source. Senior Supt Orlando Yebra Jr., Pasig City police chief,…

5 Manila traffic men axed over drugs

Just like he promised last month, Manila Mayor Joseph Estrada fired five personnel of the Manila Traffic and Parking Bureau (MTPB) who tested positive for drug use. In a statement issued on Monday, Estrada identified the five…

Grab driver nabbed in QC for selling ‘shabu’ to riders

A Grab driver was arrested on Friday after he allegedly peddled illegal drugs to his riders in Cubao, Quezon City. Members of the Quezon City Police District (QCPD) and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency conducted a buy-bust…

End of the road for mayor on drug list, 9 others

MAKILALA, North Cotabato—After President Rodrigo Duterte publicly linked them to illegal drugs two months ago, Mayor Samsudin Dimaukom of Datu Saudi Ampatuan, Maguindanao province, and his wife Anida, the town’s vice mayor, flew to Manila and turned…

New twist in Moynihan slay case: BF killed

A person of interest (POI) in the killing of actress Maritoni Fernandez’s sister was also killed in a drug bust on Sunday, the Quezon City Police District (QCPD) confirmed. Leandro Antonio Kanahashi or LA, the boyfriend of…

Drug-dealing MMDA man nabbed

A traffic constable of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) who reportedly supplied UV Express drivers with “shabu” (methampethamine hydrochloride) was arrested in a buy-bust operation on Sunday. Dexter Lucas, a member of the MMDA’s motorcycle riding…

2 killed as Nueva Ecija truck theft ends in QC shootout

Five days after hardware shop owner Imelda de Guzman of Zaragosa, Nueva Ecija, reported her missing mini dump truck to the police on Sept. 22, it was found in Payatas, Quezon City, along with drugs in the…

CCTV shows Moynihan alive when she got off Fortuner

Footage from a security camera showed the sister of actress Maritoni Fernandez, Moynihan, was still alive when she alighted from a vehicle along Temple Avenue in Quezon City early Saturday. The two-minute footage from a nearby closed-circuit…

Movie star’s sister shot dead in antidrug war

At least four persons were added to the list of casualties in the administration’s controversial antidrug war, among them a woman identified by police as the sister of movie star Maritoni Fernandez. The woman, Ma. Aurora Moynihan,…