ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/09 June) – Two of the three kidnap victims were freed an hour after gunmen abducted them Wednesday in Lanao del Norte, a military official disclosed Thursday. Freed were engineer Boyet Alumbro and Edgar Gomez who along with another companion identified as Alexander Lim were abducted around 9 a.m. Wednesday in Barangay Samboron, [...]

COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/10 April) — A grocery owner abducted here on April 1 was freed early Sunday morning in Barangay Balanaken, Datu Piang, Maguindanao. Jinkee Lim Yap, 38, was freed by her abductors at around 2:30 a.m. to Cotabato City officials led by City Administrator Cynthia Guiani-Sayadi, a report from the Eastern Mindanao Command said. [...]

ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/23 February)—An American national was reported missing and believed kidnapped by unknown persons but police and military authorities said they were baffled by the circumstances surrounding his disappearance. Milton Taylor was reportedly last seen on January 11 at Lamar Inn in Cagayan de Oro City in the company of some friends. Bobby Quijano [...]

KIDAPAWAN CITY  (MindaNews/05 February) – Cotabato City Vice Mayor Muslimin Sema has denied allegations he was behind the January 8 kidnapping of a Filipino-Chinese trader there. The victim, 54-year-old Adin Yu, owner of the city’s oldest hardware store, was snatched January 8 at the parking area of the Estosan Hotel. He and his wife had [...]

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/04 February)— Former Cotabato City mayor and now Vice Mayor Muslimin G. Sema and a councilor are allegedly involved in the series of kidnappings in the locality, the regional Philippine National Police command based here said on Friday. Chief Supt. Gil Meneses, Southwestern Mindanao police director, said they had requested the inclusion [...]

SURIGAO CITY (MindaNews/24 January) – Shoddy investigation work and even questionable actions of the police have spoiled and contaminated the pieces of evidence in the kidnapping of a Surigao City banker two years ago, an investigator who took part in the early part of the probe said. Police Officer 2 Nomer Isidro Sabacan of the [...]

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/11 Jan) – Police operatives arrested at least seven suspected members of an alleged kidnap-for-ransom gang while they were reportedly plotting a kidnapping operation here Monday afternoon. Supt. Rolly Octavio, deputy city police director for operations, said Tuesday the suspects were separately nabbed Monday while they were about to enter the city [...]

COTABATO CITY  (MindaNews/10 January) – Kidnappers who seized a businessman at gunpoint Saturday night at the roadside parking area of the city’s premier hotel are demanding “some amount” for his freedom, Police Senior Supt. Willie Dangane, City Police Director, said. This, as the Crisis Management Committee was convened Sunday to find ways to secure the [...]

KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/18 Dec) – Four suspects in Thursday’s kidnapping of an eight-year old girl and the killing of her father in Pigcawayn, North Cotabato, have been charged by the police for kidnapping with murder. The four are former operatives of the Pentagon-kidnap-for ransom gang, Senior Inspector Abello Jungaya, Pigcawayan police chief, said on Friday. [...]

KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/16 December) — Kidnappers snatched early morning today a businessman’s daughter in Pigkawayan town in North Cotabato, police officials said. Chief Insp. Jomar Alexis Yap, regional Philippine National Police spokesperson, said the three unidentified kidnappers also shot dead 8-year-old victim’s father, Allan Tamayo, when he resisted them.

ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/09 December) — Mindanao State University President Dr. Macapado Abaton Muslim has started negotiations for the release of two students who were kidnapped Tuesday inside the school campus in Marawi City, the Armed Forces of the Philippines’ Communication Command Post in Manila today said. Inset map courtesy of WikipediaArchie Baricuatro, an agricultural engineering [...]

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/26 November) -The Filipino-Chinese business community here and in nearby South Cotabato province lauded local government officials, police and Army units based in the area for the swift recovery of a kidnapped Filipino-Chinese businessman in the city earlier this month. In a resolution, the South Cotabato Filipino-Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Inc. (SCFFCCCI) [...]

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/19 Nov) – Kidnappers released unharmed Friday a wealthy businesswoman from South Cotabato province five days after she was abducted by armed men. Chief Supt. Gil Menses, Region 12 police director, said kidnap victim Grace Eleuterio, 53, was freed by her captors around 10:30 a.m. at a mountainous portion of Bagumbayan town [...]

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/17 November) – Kidnappers of a businesswoman from Sto. Nino town in South Cotabato have demanded a P10-million ransom in exchange for the safe release of the victim, officials said Wednesday. Sto. Nino Mayor Antonio Damandaman confirmed that the kidnappers of Grace Eleuterio, who was seized by a group of armed men [...]

KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/17 November) – A gas station owner in Datu Piang town in Maguindanao who was kidnapped Sunday noon has been reunited with his family after his abductors released him around 6 a.m. today in Cotabato City, reports from the Cotabato City police said. Rodolfo Chio, owner of Petron gasoline station in Poblacion, Datu [...]

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/15 November) — Kidnappers struck anew in different parts of Southwestern Mindanao, snatching two victims from the business community and killing one person and wounding another late Sunday afternoon, authorities said Monday. Mayor Antonio F. Damandaman Sr., of Sto. Nino town in South Cotabato said heavily armed men abducted a prominent businesswoman, [...]

KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/16 October) — Kidnappers freed Friday dawn 73-year hardware trader Conchita Tan of Cotabato City in a marshy area in Maguindanao. Tan, owner of the LCT Hardware in Cotabato, was immediately flown to Manila via Cebu Pacific for medical treatment, at around 12 noon today, said Col. Ernesto Aradanas, chief of the 603rd [...]

KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/12 October)—The head of a business group in Cotabato City has endorsed the proposal of a senior Catholic Church official to place the city under martial law in the wake of kidnappings and other major crimes. “Whatever works [to improve the peace and order condition is welcome]. Lots of chaotic things are happening [...]

SURIGAO CITY (MindaNews/29 September) — The new provincial police director of Surigao del Norte promised he will soon review and dig deeper into the case of kidnapped banker Johnson Cuiting. In an interview at his office, Delos Santos said he will review and reassess the sworn statements of all the witnesses and will coordinate with [...]

MARAWI CITY (MindaNews/25 September) – A driver abducted September 14 at the GMA terminal here was freed Friday afternoon without ransom, as five Maranaw victims kidnapped Wednesday in Maguindanao were also freed. The freed victim, Haris Daud, was reportedly released through the intercession of a Council of Elders. Daud, who was abducted while driving passengers [...]

COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/24 September) – Family members of an Iranun kidnap victim resorted to kidnapping too after failing to locate their relative, police reports said. According to the regional police office of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, armed men flagged down Wednesday an Isuzu Crosswind and a Toyota Revo coming from Cotabato City and [...]

MARAWI CITY (MindaNews/15 Sept) — A Maranao trader kidnapped over two weeks ago was released before dawn today allegedly after paying “board and lodging” money amounting to P350,000 to his abductors, a police official said. Senior Supt. Cosanie M. Derogongan said that Abdulcader Madarang was released at Barangay Bubonga Lilod Madaya in Marawi City at [...]

KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/8 Sept) — Police operatives in Cotabato City arrested on Tuesday a kidnapper who was also among the inmates who escaped from the North Cotabato Provincial Jail more than three years ago. Senior Supt. Wilfredo Dangane, Cotabato City police director, identified the suspect as Faisal Mamalancas Salik, believed to be one of the [...]