CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/19 May) – Charges will be filed against the suspects in the daylight robbery last week on the Osmeña Branch of Banco de Oro here, Cogon police station commander Senior Insp. Buenaventura Reyes said on Tuesday. Local police have identified the alleged robbers through CCTV footage as belonging to the dreaded [...]

MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/31 January) – A security guard was killed, another was seriously hurt, and a bystander was hit when robbers pulled a heist and fled with some P500,000 from bank employees at a busy intersection here midmorning today, the first such incident in this city. Police Officer 3 Warren Coñales, Malaybalay City Police Office [...]

KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews) — After one of their colleagues was killed in a highway robbery Saturday night in Pikit town in North Cotabato, journalists in North Cotabato urged authorities to curb the rash of highway robberies that have victimized a number of commuters. Romeo Benjumai, who wrote for the Fiscalizer, a weekly newspaper based in [...]

KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/30 January) – Unidentified armed men pulled off a robbery hold-up along the highway in Pikit, North Cotabato, killing the driver and a passenger of a commercial van at around 6:30 p.m. Saturday, police said. Sr. Insp. Elias Dandan, chief of Pikit police, identified the slain victims as Johnny Cadungog, van driver; and [...]

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/10 January) —  At least 12 bandits operating in the tri-boundaries of South Cotabato, Sarangani and Davao del Sur  surrendered over the weekend to police and local officials in Malungon town in Sarangani. Malungon Mayor Reynaldo Constantino said Monday the bandits voluntarily surrendered and laid down their firearms in response to an [...]

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/3 Dec) – Police authorities in Sarangani province have filed murder charges against at least five suspected bandits who were tagged as behind the attack in a remote village in Malungon town last Monday that left a person dead. Inset map courtesy of WikipediaChief Insp. Alvin Martin, Malungon municipal police station chief, [...]

MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/27 November) — Operatives of the National Bureau of Investigation have arrested a suspect of the slaying of Bukidnon State University instructor Jay Jaspher Santonińo, the chief of police here said. Police S/Supt. Erwin Bayani Meneses said Michael Abellanosa, 19, was captured “somewhere in Impalutao,”  a barangay in Impasug-ong town, on November 26, [...]

KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/11 October) – Two motorists were killed and another was wounded while some P50 thousand in cash was snatched from a trader in three separate robbery incidents along the highway in North Cotabato since Saturday, reports from the Cotabato Provincial Police Office said. In Midsayap town, 26-year-old data encoder Edward Harasan of Poblacion [...]