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                    [Title] => Agusan town police chief axed over illegal gambling
                    [Summary] => BUTUAN CITY — For failing to even take notice of illegal gambling near their headquarters, the police chief of Cabadbaran, Agusan del Norte found himself relieved from his post.


Chief Superintendent Geary Lingan Barias, Caraga police director, sacked Senior Inspector Zosimo Duarte after the alleged financier of a gambling den and eight of his "coordinators" were arrested during a raid Tuesday morning at the Landicho compound in Barangay 5.
[DatePublished] => 2006-06-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096525 [AuthorName] => Ben Serrano [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 343763 [Title] => Caraga traders helpless on rebel taxation, gov admits [Summary] => BUTUAN CITY — Local traders are helpless on the "revolutionary taxation" and other extortion activities of the New People’s Army (NPA), Surigao del Sur Gov. Vicentel Pimentel Jr., chairman of the Caraga regional peace and order council, admitted in a press conference here the other day.

Pimentel also said the two-year deadline given by President Arroyo to crush the decades-long communist insurgency is "unachievable" without the help of the people.
[DatePublished] => 2006-06-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096525 [AuthorName] => Ben Serrano [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 335221 [Title] => Caraga cops looking for lawmaker’s stolen van [Summary] => BUTUAN CITY — All police units in the Caraga region’s three cities and 71 towns are on the lookout for the white Delica van of Misamis Oriental Rep. Danilo Lagbas which was stolen last Wednesday night in Cagayan de Oro City.

Chief Superintendent Geary Lingan Barias, regional police director, flashed the alarm for Lagbas’ stolen van with license plate RCC 556 even as reports claimed that the car thieves were headed toward this city.
[DatePublished] => 2006-05-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096525 [AuthorName] => Ben Serrano [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 335239 [Title] => 4 NPAs killed, soldier wounded in clash [Summary] => BUTUAN CITY — At least four New People’s Army (NPA) guerrillas were killed while a soldier of the Army’s 30th Infantry Battalion was wounded when patrolling government troops clashed with some 30 rebels in Barangay Los Angeles, Butuan City yesterday, authorities said.

Chief Superintendent Geary Lingan Barias, Caraga police director, said the military seized three M-16 Armalite rifles, a Garand, an M-203 rifle and subversive documents after the encounter which lasted for nearly one hour.
[DatePublished] => 2006-05-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 330416 [Title] => Robber mistakes bank alarm for light switch, flees [Summary] => CABADBARAN, Agusan del Norte — A robber managed to get inside a bank in this town past midnight Wednesday, but mistook the bank alarm for a light switch, effectively aborting the heist.

In a scene straight out of a cops-and-robbers comedy, Cabadbaran police said they received an alarm from the First Consolidated Bank (FCB-Cabadbaran) branch located along the national highway at about 1:30 a.m. Wednesday.

The bank alarm was connected to an alarm at the police station located a kilometer away.
[DatePublished] => 2006-04-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096525 [AuthorName] => Ben Serrano [SectionName] => News Commentary [SectionUrl] => news-commentary [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 328810 [Title] => 22 hurt in Digos bus explosion [Summary] => DAVAO CITY— An explosion ripped through a bus inside a terminal in Digos City before noon yesterday, slightly wounding at least 22 passengers and food vendors, police said.

The bus, with 21 passengers on board, had just arrived in Digos when the blast rocked the back portion of the vehicle, said bus conductor Mike Bangcot.

The explosion came two days after a bomb blast at a grocery store in Sulu killed five people and wounded 20 others.

Sulu authorities blamed the blast on suspected al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf rebels.
[DatePublished] => 2006-03-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096525 [AuthorName] => Ben Serrano [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 325575 [Title] => Bislig killers high on drugs? [Summary] => BISLIG CITY — Were three of the six armed men who barged into a house here and killed a couple and their son last Feb. 22 high on drugs?

The relatives and neighbors of the victims — Faustino Pesadas Sr., 63, his wife Lustiva, 65, and their son Ramil, 24 — have raised this suspicion as the three men, who reportedly belong to the Red Scorpion gang, remain unidentified.
[DatePublished] => 2006-03-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096525 [AuthorName] => Ben Serrano [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 325759 [Title] => Bislig killers high on drugs? [Summary] => BISLIG CITY — Were three of the six armed men who barged into a house here and killed a couple and their son last Feb. 22 high on drugs?

The relatives and neighbors of the victims — Faustino Pesadas Sr., 63, his wife Lustiva, 65, and their son Ramil, 24 — have raised this suspicion as the three men, who reportedly belong to the Red Scorpion gang, remain unidentified.
[DatePublished] => 2006-03-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096525 [AuthorName] => Ben Serrano [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 322573 [Title] => Tough job awaits new Caraga police chief [Summary] => CAMP RAFAEL RODRIGUEZ, Butuan City — Illegal logging, illegal drugs, gambling, increasing robbery and stabbing incidents, coupled with budgetary and mapower constraints await the new Caraga police regional director who assumed office yesterday.

Caraga Region which has population of 2.2 million has only about 3,000 policemen serving four provinces, three cities, 71 municipalities and 1,326 barangays. The ideal policeman-population ratio is one cop for every 500 residents, according to the Philippine National Police (PNP).
[DatePublished] => 2006-02-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096525 [AuthorName] => Ben Serrano [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) ) )
CHIEF SUPERINTENDENT GEARY LINGAN BARIAS
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                    [Title] => Agusan town police chief axed over illegal gambling
                    [Summary] => BUTUAN CITY — For failing to even take notice of illegal gambling near their headquarters, the police chief of Cabadbaran, Agusan del Norte found himself relieved from his post.


Chief Superintendent Geary Lingan Barias, Caraga police director, sacked Senior Inspector Zosimo Duarte after the alleged financier of a gambling den and eight of his "coordinators" were arrested during a raid Tuesday morning at the Landicho compound in Barangay 5.
[DatePublished] => 2006-06-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096525 [AuthorName] => Ben Serrano [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 343763 [Title] => Caraga traders helpless on rebel taxation, gov admits [Summary] => BUTUAN CITY — Local traders are helpless on the "revolutionary taxation" and other extortion activities of the New People’s Army (NPA), Surigao del Sur Gov. Vicentel Pimentel Jr., chairman of the Caraga regional peace and order council, admitted in a press conference here the other day.

Pimentel also said the two-year deadline given by President Arroyo to crush the decades-long communist insurgency is "unachievable" without the help of the people.
[DatePublished] => 2006-06-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096525 [AuthorName] => Ben Serrano [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 335221 [Title] => Caraga cops looking for lawmaker’s stolen van [Summary] => BUTUAN CITY — All police units in the Caraga region’s three cities and 71 towns are on the lookout for the white Delica van of Misamis Oriental Rep. Danilo Lagbas which was stolen last Wednesday night in Cagayan de Oro City.

Chief Superintendent Geary Lingan Barias, regional police director, flashed the alarm for Lagbas’ stolen van with license plate RCC 556 even as reports claimed that the car thieves were headed toward this city.
[DatePublished] => 2006-05-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096525 [AuthorName] => Ben Serrano [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 335239 [Title] => 4 NPAs killed, soldier wounded in clash [Summary] => BUTUAN CITY — At least four New People’s Army (NPA) guerrillas were killed while a soldier of the Army’s 30th Infantry Battalion was wounded when patrolling government troops clashed with some 30 rebels in Barangay Los Angeles, Butuan City yesterday, authorities said.

Chief Superintendent Geary Lingan Barias, Caraga police director, said the military seized three M-16 Armalite rifles, a Garand, an M-203 rifle and subversive documents after the encounter which lasted for nearly one hour.
[DatePublished] => 2006-05-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 330416 [Title] => Robber mistakes bank alarm for light switch, flees [Summary] => CABADBARAN, Agusan del Norte — A robber managed to get inside a bank in this town past midnight Wednesday, but mistook the bank alarm for a light switch, effectively aborting the heist.

In a scene straight out of a cops-and-robbers comedy, Cabadbaran police said they received an alarm from the First Consolidated Bank (FCB-Cabadbaran) branch located along the national highway at about 1:30 a.m. Wednesday.

The bank alarm was connected to an alarm at the police station located a kilometer away.
[DatePublished] => 2006-04-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096525 [AuthorName] => Ben Serrano [SectionName] => News Commentary [SectionUrl] => news-commentary [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 328810 [Title] => 22 hurt in Digos bus explosion [Summary] => DAVAO CITY— An explosion ripped through a bus inside a terminal in Digos City before noon yesterday, slightly wounding at least 22 passengers and food vendors, police said.

The bus, with 21 passengers on board, had just arrived in Digos when the blast rocked the back portion of the vehicle, said bus conductor Mike Bangcot.

The explosion came two days after a bomb blast at a grocery store in Sulu killed five people and wounded 20 others.

Sulu authorities blamed the blast on suspected al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf rebels.
[DatePublished] => 2006-03-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096525 [AuthorName] => Ben Serrano [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 325575 [Title] => Bislig killers high on drugs? [Summary] => BISLIG CITY — Were three of the six armed men who barged into a house here and killed a couple and their son last Feb. 22 high on drugs?

The relatives and neighbors of the victims — Faustino Pesadas Sr., 63, his wife Lustiva, 65, and their son Ramil, 24 — have raised this suspicion as the three men, who reportedly belong to the Red Scorpion gang, remain unidentified.
[DatePublished] => 2006-03-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096525 [AuthorName] => Ben Serrano [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 325759 [Title] => Bislig killers high on drugs? [Summary] => BISLIG CITY — Were three of the six armed men who barged into a house here and killed a couple and their son last Feb. 22 high on drugs?

The relatives and neighbors of the victims — Faustino Pesadas Sr., 63, his wife Lustiva, 65, and their son Ramil, 24 — have raised this suspicion as the three men, who reportedly belong to the Red Scorpion gang, remain unidentified.
[DatePublished] => 2006-03-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096525 [AuthorName] => Ben Serrano [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 322573 [Title] => Tough job awaits new Caraga police chief [Summary] => CAMP RAFAEL RODRIGUEZ, Butuan City — Illegal logging, illegal drugs, gambling, increasing robbery and stabbing incidents, coupled with budgetary and mapower constraints await the new Caraga police regional director who assumed office yesterday.

Caraga Region which has population of 2.2 million has only about 3,000 policemen serving four provinces, three cities, 71 municipalities and 1,326 barangays. The ideal policeman-population ratio is one cop for every 500 residents, according to the Philippine National Police (PNP).
[DatePublished] => 2006-02-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096525 [AuthorName] => Ben Serrano [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) ) )
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