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                    [ArticleID] => 377254
                    [Title] => Hired guns in GenSan slays
                    [Summary] => 

KORONADAL CITY — Police blamed a gun-for-hire syndicate for the gunslayings of five people, including two prominent businessmen, in nearby General Santos City in the past three weeks.


Senior Superintendent Alfredo Toroctocon, General Santos police chief, said "professional killers" pulled off the killings.

Last Dec. 9, Jimmy and Esterlita Sanchez were attacked by a lone gunman in front of their house. Seven days later, Salvador Ong, who owned the King Valley Hotel, and his bodyguard, Arnold Bactang, were shot dead.
[DatePublished] => 2006-12-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 375575 [Title] => GenSan hotel owner, pal gunned down [Summary] => KORONADAL CITY — Two ski mask-wearing men shot dead a Chinese-Filipino businessman and his companion near the former’s residence in nearby General Santos City, police said.

Senior Superintendent Alfredo Toroctocon, General Santos City police chief, said Salvador Ong, 37, owner of King Valley Hotel in Barangay San Isidro, and his companion, Arnold Bactang, 36, died on the spot due to multiple gunshot wounds.

The two were gunned down in front of Ong’s house at Manansala Subdivision in Barangay San Isidro at about 1:20 a.m. Friday.
[DatePublished] => 2006-12-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097511 [AuthorName] => Ramil Bajo [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 347648 [Title] => GenSan not a JI training ground — cops [Summary] => KORONADAL CITY — Police authorities in nearby General Santos City dismissed as "baseless" and "unverified" reports that the Indonesian-based terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) has been using the city as a "training ground" for its new recruits.

"The labeling of General Santos as a training ground of terrorists is not true. It is an impossible report. It is not proper," said Senior Superintendent Alfredo Toroctocon, city police chief.
[DatePublished] => 2006-07-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 307761 [Title] => MIG ‘asset’ shot dead in GenSan [Summary] => KORONADAL CITY —Motorcycle-riding men killed an "asset" of the Armed Forces Military Intelligence Group (MIG) in nearby General Santos City, the police said.

Senior Superintendent Alfredo Toroctocon, General Santos City police chief, said Vicente Bontoya, also a personal bodyguard of a businessman, was found dead in Purok San Lorenzo Ruiz in Barangay Apopong at about 8 p.m. last Saturday.

Toroctocon quoted reports as saying that Bontoya was cruising the Apopong highway on his motorcycle when he was gunned down.
[DatePublished] => 2005-11-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 302049 [Title] => Bank collector shot dead [Summary] => KORONADAL CITY — Two motorcycle-riding robbers shot and killed a collector of the Sarangani Rural Bank of General Santos and took away his bag believed to be containing a huge amount of cash and checks in General Santos City, the police said yesterday.

Senior Superintendent Alfredo Toroctocon, General Santos City police chief, said the body of Nathaniel Santos, 32, which bore several bullet wounds in the chest, was found beside his motorcycle in front of a beach resort in Barangay Bawing.
[DatePublished] => 2005-10-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 300062 [Title] => Newspaper executive shot in Koronadal City [Summary] => Koronadal City — A 25-year-old employee of a local weekly here was shot and critically wounded in nearby General Santos City early yesterday morning, a police official said.

Danilo Aguirre, marketing executive of the Socsksargen-based The Mindanao Bulletin and special project officer of the Mindanao Media Services, a PR consultancy firm managed by the Jubelag family based in General Santos City, was rushed to the Doctor’s Clinic and Hospital for treatment.
[DatePublished] => 2005-10-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097511 [AuthorName] => Ramil Bajo [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 296464 [Title] => Arrest motorcycle drag racers, orders GenSan CPO [Summary] => KORONADAL CITY — "Arrest the motorcycle drag racers."

This was the order issued yesterday by General Santos City Police Office chief Senior Superintendent Alfredo Toroctocon to the operatives of the Criminal Investigation Branch and Traffic Control Unit after talking with the residents who are complaining about the "drag races."
[DatePublished] => 2005-09-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097511 [AuthorName] => Ramil Bajo [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 295414 [Title] => GenSan traders warned of fake P500, P1,000 bills [Summary] => GENERAL SANTOS CITY — Police authorities here warned the public, especially owners of small sari-sari stores and operators of amusement centers and night establishments, against persons passing fake paper bills.

This after General Santos City Police Office Director Sr. Supt. Alfredo Toroctocon received several complaints from small stores, restaurants and night establishments, saying they received P500 and P1,000 fake bills, believed to be paid by one of their customers.
[DatePublished] => 2005-09-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) ) )
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