DAGUPAN CITY — A German arrested by agents of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) and Bureau of Immigration (BI) in Alaminos City on Wednesday for alleged acts of lasciviousness was found dead early Thursday at the NBI detention cell here.
Jose Doloiras, agent-in-charge of the NBI here, said Uwe Krause, 54, committed suicide by hanging himself with nylon bag straps tied to the iron ceiling grill of his cell.
Doloiras said Krause’s death was discovered at about 4 a.m. when his 25-year-old girlfriend noticed the German was not in his bed.
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A MANGALDAN policeman was shot and injured by two unidentified men Monday morning in the town.
The victim was identified as Fernando Dotong, 36, a warrant officer of the Mangaldan police. He was rushed to the Dagupan Medical Centrum (DMC).
Mangaldan Police Chief Lloyd Millan said the incident took place at 8 a.m. Monday along a national highway in Barangay Salay.
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DAGUPAN City – The Provincial Elections Office here has declared at least three towns and one city in Pangasinan as possible hot spots in the coming May national and local elections.
Provincial elections officer Reddy Balabar said San Nicolas in the sixth district is a potencial candidate for Commission on Elections control owing to its history of violent incidents in the past elections.
These incidents include the slayings of former San Nicolas Mayor Conrado Rodrigo right after the 2004 elections; farmer militant leader Jose Doton and some of the leaders and followers of the protagonists in the 2004 elections, Mayor Leoncio Saldivar and former Mayor Chistopher Jones Rodrigo.
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Three towns and one city in Pangasinan had been tagged by the Provincial Elections Office as possible hot spots in the coming elections.
Provincial Elections Supervisor Reddy Balar expressed the possibility of recommending one of those towns to be placed under Commission on Elections (Comelec) control.
Reddy Balarbar identified this town as San Nicolas, located in the sixth district of Pangasinan, which is considered as the most sensitive area of Pangasinan due to its history of political violence.
At the same time, Balarbar foresees hot election contests in the towns of Binmaley in the second district, San Fabian in the fourth district and San Carlos City in the third district.
San Nicolas is being eyed to be recommended under Comelec control because of the many recorded violent incidents that happened there in the past.
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ALAMINOS City, Pangasinan – Two tricycle drivers were killed by unidentified suspects at dawn yesterday.
Police said Orlando Daleng Celeste, 25, a tricycle driver of Rabago Street here, was shot dead in Barangay San Roque.
Initial investigation showed that the victim parked his tricycle at the corner of Quezon Avenue and Carlos Garcia Street waiting for passengers when an unidentified man boarded.
Minutes later, Celeste was found dead in the middle of the road with gunshot wounds.
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DAGUPAN CITY — Police were set to file charges of robbery with multiple murder and frustrated murder against two arrested suspects in the killing of three hotel employees and the wounding of another here at dawn of Dec. 24.
Superintendent Edgar Basbas, city police chief, and Superintendent Manuel Velasco, provincial chief of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG), presented suspects Victor Dalisay and Junjun Romero, security guard and laundry boy, respectively, of the Floren Hotel, to the media yesterday. A manhunt is ongoing for a third suspect.
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DAGUPAN CITY — Police arrested a 20-year-old room boy from Lingayen town who was suspected to have killed three hotel employees here early Sunday, an official said.
The police had withheld the identity of the suspect pending further investigation of the case, said Superintendent Edgar Basbas, police chief here.
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DAGUPAN CITY–Three employees of the Floren Hotel here were stabbed to death early Sunday just hours after they attended the employees’ Christmas party at the hotel.
Another worker was seriously hurt and was in critical condition at a local hospital.
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