MINDANAO DAILY T H E P U RV E YO R O F T R U T H , J U S T I C E , A N D D E V E LO P M E N T
Volume VI, No. 248
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3 suspected members of ‘Maute terror group’ nabbed in Oro By Cris Diaz Executive Editor
CAGAYAN de Oro City-Three suspected members of a terror group from Lanao Del Sur were collared by police operatives in Cagayan De Oro City Sunday evening, the police
said Monday. Chief Inspector Mardi Hortilloza, the spokesperson of the Cagayan De Oro City Police Office (COCPO), identified the three suspects as Cedic Oroca, Odin Alamada, and Sainoden Solaiman, all of Marawi City, Lanao Del Sur.
He said that the three suspects were arrested in a lodging house along the highway here after the police raided the hotel where the three suspects earlier stayed before transferring to the lodging house. In an interview with PNA, Hortilloza said that
the suspects might have check-in the hotel last Saturday and were supposed to check out Sunday noon. “The hotel management called the suspects late Sunday afternoon to inquire if [they] would extend their stay,” Hortilloza said. He said that the police
went to the hotel after the tenants did not answer the hotel call and found the illegal “Shabu” drug, laptop, power banks, electrical wirings and a hand grenade inside the room. Hortilloza said that the charges against the suspects with alleged illegal posses-
sion of firearms, explosives and illegal drug could be filed with the city prosecutor Monday. One of the suspects identified as Cedic Oroca denied owning the illegal drugs and the hand grenade, saying the police went inside
Agsur guv warns: No sacred cows in drug war By CHRIS V. PANGANIBAN Contributing Editor
PROSPERIDAD, Agusan del Sur-While he believes that drug addicts should be given a chance to reform, Gov. Adolph Edward Plaza would not allow village officials even those close to him
to dip his hands when they are caught in the drug raid. “Since you were caught, whatever happens, do not drag me because that is your own doing, so face your problem,” Plaza warned Sunday after a village chief and a councilman was arrested in the village of Patin-ay where the
provincial capitol and provincial police office are located. The governor issued this statement in the last part of his speech as he laid down his stand on federalism and outlined his pet drug reform program in Agusan del Sur at the gathering during the induction of new members of
administration party PDP Laban in Butuan City on Sunday graced by Interior Secretary Mike Sueno. On Sunday morning, operatives of Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency nabbed Patin-ay village chief Romeo Lagat Jr. and councilman Danilo Tumale after they recovered some eight grams
of shabu in the early Sunday morning raid on the suspects homes. Plaza was apparently irked after Lagat tried to call him when he was arrested apparently to seek his intercession to get them out of the trouble. Senior Superintendent
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CAGAYAN de Oro City-The National Democratic Front in Northern Mindanao has asked the military on Monday to implement a 10-day suspension of military and police operations in at least 74 villages in Bukidnon starting March 27 so it can safely release a policeman who was captured by the Communist guerrillas. Police Officer 2 Anthony Natividad, who is assigned at the Kalilangan municipal police in Bukidnon, was on his way to the Philippine National Police headquarters in Camp Alagar on board
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NDF says AFP, PNP must suspend ops for captured cop’s release By GERRY LEE GORIT Correspondent
Young contingents to Bukidnon province’s Kaamulan Festival 2017 portray the role of monkeys during during the streetdance competition, Saturday (March 25), at the main streets of Malaybalay City. Photo by Gerry Lee Gorit for Mindanao Daily
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his motorcycle to undergo medical examination when taken by the members of the New People’s Army in Barangay Tikalaan, Talakag town. Cesar Renerio, spokesperson of the NDF-Northcentral Mindanao Region, in a statement said they are willing to release Natividad on condition that the army and police will order its forces to stand down in some villages in the towns of Talakag, Lantapan, Baungon, Pangantucan, and Kalilangan, and the cities of Malaybalay and Valencia. For its part, Renerio said the NDF-NCMR through the NPA will declare its See release, page 7
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