Police probers cordon the crime scene where a CIDG police operative and two gunrunning suspects were injured as a result of a shooting incident during an entrapment operation in Brgy. Taculing, Bacolod City. BCPO photo
BACOLOD CITY – Three persons, including a policeman, were wounded during a buy-bust operation against an unauthorized selling of firearms along Circumferential road in Barangay Taculing here on Friday, Feb. 24.
The wounded individuals were Police Corporal Rey Sivestre, a personnel of Criminal Inv
SHOOTOUT. An operative of the Philippine National Police-Criminal Investigation and Detection Group, who was driving a white Mitsubishi Montero during a sting operation with two alleged gunrunners, was injured in a shootout along with the suspects in Bacolod City on Friday (Feb. 24, 2022). The three are now being treated in a private hospital in the city.(Photo courtesy of Bacolod City Police Office) BACOLOD CITY - A personnel of the Philippine National Police- Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (PNP-CIDG) and two suspected gunrunners were injured in a shootout during a sting operation in Barangay Taculing here before noon on Friday. In a report from the Bacolod City Police Office, the policeman was identified as Cpl. Rey Sivestre, who is being treated at The Doctors' Hospital here. The suspects, Michael Bintoroso, 44, a resident of Barangay Codcod, San Carlos City, Negros Occidental province; and Alex Villegas, 33, of Barangay Pahanocoy here, are also admitted in the same