Gunrunning suspects killed by Navotas police
Two suspected gunrunners were killed in a shootout with policemen on Tuesday morning.
According to the Northern Police District, the still unidentified men tried to sell a .38-caliber revolver to a policeman on C3 Road at Barangay North Bay Boulevard North in Dagat-Dagatan, Navotas City.
However, the suspects reportedly sensed that they were dealing with a law enforcer and tried to shoot him, leading to a firefight with him and other policemen.
Recovered from the slain suspects were a .45-caliber gun with serial number 195859 P7, a .38-caliber revolver without any serial number, a third firearm, a sachet believed to contain 鈥渟habu鈥� (crystal meth) and a P20 bill. 鈥擬ariejo S. Ramos
Taguig cops catch 2 men selling 鈥榮habu鈥� to sleepy truck drivers
Two men who were allegedly selling 鈥渟habu鈥� (crystal meth) to truckers desperate to stay awake during long trips were arrested by police antidrug operatives in Taguig City on Sunday.
Members of the National Capital Region Police Office鈥檚 Regional Drug Enforcement Unit (RDEU) took into custody Cussel Galura, 22 and Joel Ledesma, 42, both residents of Las Pi帽as City, after a drug bust at the corner of C-6 Road and Seagull Street in Barangay San Miguel.
Chief Insp. Ferdinand Mendoza, NCRPO-RDEU head, said that the suspects sold to one of his men 25 g of shabu worth P170,000.
The police later recovered from the two men four more packs of shabu, for a total of P374,000 worth of drugs.
鈥淏ased on our information, they were selling shabu to truckers from Rizal province plying C-6 Road on the way to southern Metro Manila,鈥� Mendoza said. 鈥擠exter Cabalza
56 more BI personnel assigned to airports for holiday rush
The Bureau of Immigration (BI) announced on Monday that it had deployed an additional 56 personnel to different airports nationwide for the holidays.
鈥淲e are actually expecting an upsurge in travelers entering the Philippines by around the second or third week of December,鈥� said BI Port Operations Division chief Grifton Medina.
Of the 56 immigration officers, 19 were assigned to the Ninoy Aquino International Airport while the rest were deployed to the airports in Clark, Pampanga; Mactan island in Cebu; Kalibo, Aklan and Davao City. 鈥擳ina G. Santos