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Volume IX, No. 138
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Tuesday, October 29, 2019
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Wildlife smugglers bound for MNL nabbed in Surigao
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By FROILAN GALLARDO, MindaNews
AGAYAN de Oro — Police manning a checkpoint in Tandag City on Sunday intercepted a shipment of wildlife bound for the lucrative markets in Manila, police said.
A cursory check on two vehicles, Ford Everest and a Toyota Innova, yielded cages of parrots, exotic monitor lizards and other endangered species at the checkpoint in Barangay Buenavista, Tandag City in Surigao del Sur on Sunday, Lt. Col. Christian Rafols II, PNP Caraga spokesperson, said. Rafols said that when
police officers demanded a permit to transport wildlife, the three suspects on board the vehicles could not produce any. He said the policemen immediately detained the suspects who were identified as Dante L. Toledo, 40, resident of Brgy. Calumpang in General Santos City; Joel C. Demoral, 38, resident of Bulua in Cagayan de Oro
City; and Jory C. Demoral, 51, resident of Bankerohan in Davao City. “Personnel from the DENR (Department of Environment and Natural Resources) together with our police officers are still conducting an inventory of the birds and animals,” Rafols said. Rafols said the endangered birds and animals may have come from Mati City in Davao Oriental, and transported overland to Pasay City where there is a lucrative illegal wildlife trade. “The forest around Mati city is a biodiversity hotspot
Leader of lawless group, follower nabbed in Malungon By MINDANEWS
See WILDLIFE, page 17
Three persons behind the transport of wildlife that would be sold in Manila were arrested Sunday, October 27, 2019 at a checkpoint in Tandag City. PNP Caraga andout
JOINT operatives arrested an alleged leader of a lawless group in Sarangani province and one of his followers, and recovered at least 14 high-powered firearms in separate raids on Friday in Malungon town. Lt. Col. Lino Capellan, public information officer of the Police Regional Office (PRO)-12, identified the suspects as Luis Lañelyn Malila alias “Kumander Lo” and Tornica Masday Malila, both residents of Sitio Datal Lutay, Barangay B’laan in Malungon. See NABBED, page 19
Slain MisOcc mayor’s body arrives in hometown By DIVINA SUSON, PNA
Col. John Kirby Kraft (left) formally takes over as the director of the Davao City Police Office in a turnover ceremony Friday afternoon (25 October 2019). Kraft, who was the regional director of the Highway Patrol Group in Region 3, replaces Col. Alexander Tagum, who will take a new post as senior executive assistant to the Philippine National Police officer-in-charge, Lt. Gen. Archie Gamboa. mindanews photo by manman dejeto
CLARIN, MISAMIS OCCIDENTAL -- The remains of Clarin town Mayor David Navarro is now laid at his residence in Barangay Lapasan here, while the vice mayor has immediately succeeded as the town’s top local executive. Navarro’s white coffin, draped with the national
flag, arrived at the Ozamiz City port past 6:30 a.m. Sunday, two days after the mayor was slain in Cebu City while being transported to the city prosecutor’s office for the inquest proceedings of the charges he is facing for mauling a masseur. In a hall decorated with white fresh flowers, floors
covered with a green mat, the remains were placed beside Navarro’s blown-up photograph. The family asked for an exclusive time until 12 noon after which visitors started to arrive. Bonifacio town mayor Samson Dumanjog, who is also the president of the League of Municipalities See BODY, page 19