The fishing banca, F/Bca Dearyn, which capsized after being rammed by an unidentified foreign commercial last October 2 off Agno, Pangasinan was successfully recovered over the weekend. “In response to the President’s Directive for the Philippine Coast Guard [PCG] to conduct investigation into the collision incident involving F/Bca Dearyn and an unidentified foreign vessel last
DRUG BUST. Suspects Lyle Padilla, 34, and Vicent Ian Niel Biolanda, 30, fall in a buy-bust operation in Cebu City on Saturday (April 23, 2022). They yielded more than two kilos of shabu worth PHP13.8 million in separate operations by the Mambaling Police Station. (Contributed photo) CEBU CITY - Two delivery men were arrested on Saturday in two anti-drug sting operations while authorities confiscated more than two kilos of suspected shabu worth PHP13.8 million. Cebu City police chief, Col. Ernesto Salvador Tagle, said the twin operations resulted in the arrest of Lyle Padilla, 34, a logistics firm worker; and Vincent Ian Niel Biolanda, 30, both residents of Spolarium Street, Barangay Duljo-Fatima. Tagle witnessed the on-site chain-of-custody inventory of the pieces of evidence confiscated. He lauded the team of the Mambaling Police Office, headed by Maj. Dindo Alaraz, for the successful buy-bust operation that first led to the arrest of Biolanda and the subsequent sting operation that n