Police Regional Police - Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao Director Brig. Gen. Arthur Cabalona. (Image courtesy of PRO-BARMM) COTABATO CITY - Police authorities in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) have listed 16 towns and two cities as election "hotspots" in the region. In a report Thursday, Brig. Gen. Arthur Cabalona, BARMM police regional director, said the 18 areas are categorized under "red code" or "areas of immediate concern" in connection with the May 9 national and local elections. Cabalona said 102 communities across BARMM have been initially identified by the police as "areas of concern" or "yellow code" in the upcoming polls. Yellow code refers to areas that have a history of election-related incidents in the last elections, possible employment of partisan armed groups, and the occurrence of politically-motivated election-related instances. Cabalona said Basilan province has four "
BUSTED. One of the suspects in the drug buy-bust in Pigcawayan, North Cotabato covers his face from the camera after his arrest along with a companion on Wednesday (Nov. 24, 2021). Seized from the suspects were PHP360,000 worth of suspected shabu (inset) in a cigarette pack. (Photo courtesy of Pigcawayan MPS) PIGCAWAYAN, North Cotabato - Authorities arrested two men for selling some PHP360,000 worth of suspected shabu to an undercover cop during a drug buy-bust Wednesday along the national highway here. Maj. Carl Jayson Baynosa, municipal police chief, identified the suspects as Jholamin Lembak, 32, of Datu Hofer, Maguindanao; and Alikan Santiago, 31, of Datu Anggal Midtimbang, Maguindanao. They were nabbed after selling about 50 grams of suspected shabu along the national highway in Barangay Tubon. Recovered from the suspects were 50 grams of shabu with an estimated street value of PHP360,000. "The drugs were inserted inside a cigarette pack," Baynosa said. The suspects will
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