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ADVERTISEMENT He is clean, he deserve our support. By: Central Luzon News Center | Nelson Bolos Thus, said the mayors of the province who signed a Resolution “expressing unequivocal support” to Concepcion town mayor Andy Lacson. The local chief executives who comprise the League of Mayors of the Philippines, Tarlac Chapter (LMP-Tarlac), met in this town in a special meeting primarily to sign their resolution. The resolution says, “most unthinkable and painful is when is suspected to have a hand on illegal drugs and much more when (this is) made public through print or media (news)”. “The LMP-Tarlac resolution was made to manifest our support to mayor Lacson and (Camiling mayor) Erlon Agustin. The National Police Commission (NAPOLCOM) issued just recently its own resolution tagging 4 mayors of Central Luzon as “involved in illegal drugs trade/activity”. Many here described the NAPOLCOM resolution as “baseless, a fake and a like”. “We express our one hundred percent attestation to the ...

ADVERTISEMENT Hustisya para kay mayor, mali ang akusasyon ng NAPOLCOM. By: Central Luzon News Center | Nelson Bolos These were some among the words shouted by the town folks who filled the municipal plaza in protest of the National Police Commission’s (NAPOLCOM) order against Mayor Andy Lacson. This came as the support to the “beleaguered” mayor by other local leaders snowballs. The NAPOLCOM recently issued a resolution tagging Lacson, along with the mayors of Angeles City, Subic, Zambales and Camiling, Tarlac, of involvement in illegal drugs and were stripped of their supervisory power over the local police The October 30 NAPOLCOM resolution received by Lacson’s office last November 10 morning, says, “the (four) local executives have been identified as engaged in illegal drugs and hereby resolved to withdraw the deputation of Mayor Andy Lacson (and 3 other mayors) as NAPOLCOM representative”. Under the law, the NAPOLCOM, being the organization directly supervising the PNP, deputize ...

ADVERTISEMENT Mayor Andres Lacson of Concepcion, Tarlac, on Thursday branded as baseless the allegation that he was engaged in the illegal drug trade, which was the basis of the National Police Commission (Napolcom) to strip him and 23 other local executives of police power. "Hindi po tama 'yung report nila dahil kahit pumunta sila dito to validate for themselves, napakalayo sa personality ko, sa activity ko, 'yung sinasabi nila. Baseless po iyan kahit saan sila magtanong dito," Lacson said in a phone interview with GMA News Online. He said there was no organized drug group in his city and those who deliver illegal drugs have already been arrested. He said even the city's chief of police can attest that he is not involved in illegal drugs. Lacson admitted that he was hurt with the Napolcom resolution linking him to illegal drugs. "Para nila kaming pinatay na walang honor. Iyong mga taong hindi kami kilala [ay] hindi na mababawi sa kanila 'yung masamang ...

ADVERTISEMENT HE IS READY TO KILL By: Central Luzon News Center | Nelson Bolos Paniqui, Tarlac - Thus, said PSupt Joel Mendoza as he described the killing of a drug pusher in Barangay Abogado. In his report to Tarlac Police Director PSSupt Ritchie Posadas, Mendoza identified the slain “top drug personality” as Richard Fernandez (AKA Reggie), 38. “Pag-abot niya (Fernandez) ng shabu at dadakmain na sana siya ng poseur buyer, binaril niya agad ito. Buti na lang naka-ilag ang pulis ko. ”, said Mendoza, this town’s police chief. Fernandez is listed among this town’s Top 10 Drug Personalities. A source said Fernandez went into hiding for months when the “intensified anti-illegal drugs operation was launched” but recently returned here and continued his selling of shabu and marijuana. Mendoza said the entrapment happened right inside the house of Fernandez. The police of this town hugged the news recently when an Aglipayan priest belonging to a faction of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente ...

ADVERTISEMENT Queen no more. By: Central Luzon News Center | Nelson Bolos This was said by PCInsp. Jim Tayag on the arrest of a “notorious drug dealer” Ma. Lourdes Lontoc y Lao, aka “Malou”, 45, of Barangay Cacamilingan Norte and 3 of her “wards” last Wednesday. In his reports to Tarlac police provincial director PSSupt Ritchie Posadas, Tayag revealed the other suspected pushers arrested as Omar Benitez y Castro, 36, of Brgy Cacamilingan Norte, Frederick Quintos y Hubay AKA “Dagul”, 46, of Zamora St., Poblacion C, Julieta Maceda y Lao, aka “Julie”, 21, of Purok 5, Cacamilingan Sur. “We have been monitoring Malou, the shabu queen, madulas at maingat siya pero finally nakuha rin namin siya”, said Tayag. According to another police source, Lontoc is a “prominent shabu distributor not only here but also in Sta. Ignacia, Paniqui, Gerona and Tarlac City. She gets her shabu somewhere in Metro Manila”. According to the same source, Lontoc is fondly called “Reyna” because of her being a long...

ADVERTISEMENT Concepcion, Tarlac - - Good deeds do not go unnoticed . By: Central Luzon News Center | Nelson Bolos This was the remark when Philippine Drug Enforcement Administration (PDEA) Region director Ismael G. Fajardo Jr., Ph.D made a surprise visit here and bestowed plaques of commendation to this town’s police station and the town's Mayor. In simple ceremonies held in front of the municipal hall, Fajardo extolled PSupt Luis Ventura and Mayor Andy Lacson for their “exemplary accomplishments in line with the government’s intensive campaign against illegal drugs specifically the arrest of 4 High Value Targets (HVT)”. Elected public officials and government employees and businessmen suspected of involvement in illegal drugs are listed by the police as HVT. Fajardo mentioned the “commendable” arrest of 2 barangay councilors and 2 municipal employees who were all apprehended selling shabu in separate buy-bust operations. Last week, Ventura led the arrest of 2 municipal employee...

ADVERTISEMENT Mayantoc, Tarlac - - Small towns now target of drug suppliers? By: Central Luzon News Center This question came as this town’s police arrested a tricycle driver possessing marijuana and shabu at a check point in Barangay Rotrottooc on July 12, 2017 (Wednesday). In his report to Tarlac Police Provincial Director Ritchie Medardo Posadas, PInsp Romulo Quibuyen identified the apprehended trike driver as Roderick Arpa y Castro, 47, of Barangay Malacampa, Camiling, Tarlac. Quibuyen disclosed Arpa was apprehended after he tried to evade a police check point and was found in possession of 3 sachets of shabu and 2 sachet of marijuana. “For the past several months, we have no known drug pusher here until we arrested him (Arpa) in our checkpoint. We are now re-assessing the situation to determine if other pushers have infiltrated our municipality”, said Quibuyen. This town is a “remote but a very peaceful 3rd class municipality” lying in the hinterlands of the Zambales Mountain Ra...