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                    [Title] => Cop’s pursuit ends in tragedy
                    [Summary] => A Quezon City policeman was killed by a speeding van while crossing Commonwealth Avenue as he was chasing a suspected holdup man at dawn yesterday.


Declared dead on arrival at the East Avenue Medical Center as a result of a broken skull was Senior Police Officer 4 Isais Castillo, 52, detailed at the Central Investigation Unit (CIU) of the Central Police District.
[DatePublished] => 2002-10-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 178216 [Title] => Girl, 11, rescued from loan sharks in QC [Summary] => Call it a case of kidnap-for-debt payment.

Police have rescued an 11-year-old girl abducted right outside her school in Commonwealth, Quezon City all because her parents failed to settle a cash debt of P30,000.

Saima Pacasmo, of BF Filinvest Homes, Batasan Hills, and a student of the Commonwealth Elementary School, was rescued the other day following an entrapment operation.
[DatePublished] => 2002-10-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1510110 [AuthorName] => Matthew Estabillo [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 166243 [Title] => Crame loan fraud bared [Summary] => Authorities are on the verge of busting a loan fraud racket in Camp Crame after they arrested a policeman and nine others for alleged falsifying documents of Philippine National Police members to acquire "millions of pesos in illegal loans." [DatePublished] => 2002-06-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 155636 [Title] => Cash-strapped soldiers hurl grenade at a construction supply firm [Summary] => A group of cash-strapped soldiers intending to deliver an explosive Easter message to a military insurance firm mistakenly lobbed yesterday a hand-grenade at a construction supply compound in Quezon City.

The galvanized rooftop of Top Line Metals Inc. and a parked vehicle were damaged severely by the grenade hurled by miffed soldiers, whose respective loan applications were all denied before the Holy Week. No deaths or injuries were reported.
[DatePublished] => 2002-04-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 151818 [Title] => Police arrest fake traffic enforcer [Summary] => Police arrested the other day a 28-year-old man in Quezon City who was posing as a traffic enforcer and allegedly extorting money from motorists.

Suspect Allan Miravino, of Absesion Drive Extension, Alpha Village, Old Balara, is now detained at the Central Police District headquarters awaiting necessary charges to be filed against him.

Investigators said that Miravino has been victimizing motorists along the Eliptical Road in Quezon City. The suspect makes up bogus traffic violations and extorts cash from motorists.
[DatePublished] => 2002-02-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 140503 [Title] => Man rapped for killing of contractor [Summary] => Police filed murder charges against the principal suspect in the killing of a 52-year-old man who last week was found dead and buried in concrete inside his house in Quezon City.

No bail was recommended for the temporary release of Ruben del Valle, 41, welder, of 283 Unit 3, Riverside, Barangay Commonwealth, Quezon City. But the city prosecutor recommended P2,000 as bail of the accused for violation of City Ordinance 5121 (Concealing/Possession of a Deadly Weapon).
[DatePublished] => 2001-11-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 136383 [Title] => 3 killed, cop stabbed in Caloocan [Summary] => Three men were killed while a police officer was wounded when a drunken man went berserk in Caloocan City late Wednesday afternoon.

Station Intelligence and Investigation Division (SIID) chief Superintendent Dionicio Borromeo identified the suspect, who was himself gunned down by responding policemen, as Benjamin de la Vega, reportedly a neighborhood toughie, residing at 3rd Street, 11th Avenue, East Grace Park, Caloocan City.
[DatePublished] => 2001-10-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 136095 [Title] => CPD: Bonnet Gang behind SM robbery [Summary] => The Central Police District (CPD) said yesterday that the dreaded "Bonnet Gang" was behind last Saturday’s robbery in SM City which left a security guard dead and two others wounded.

According to Senior Inspector Rodolfo Jaraza, chief of the CPD-Central Investigation Unit, a dismissed military sergeant was the leader of the 15 armed men that carted away at least P4 million in cash and jewelry.

"According to our informants, the leader of the Bonnet Gang is a former sergeant who was removed from the services a few years ago," Jaraza said.
[DatePublished] => 2001-10-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1510110 [AuthorName] => Matthew Estabillo [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 135959 [Title] => SM robbers arrested in one week? [Summary] => At least P4 million in cash and jewelry were carted away by the 15 armed robbers who swooped down on SM City the other day, but police said they may not be able to enjoy the loot. A high-ranking official of the Central Police District (CPD) said yesterday that they already have "enough leads" to arrest the suspects in Saturday’s robbery in SM City which left a security guard dead and two others injured. [DatePublished] => 2001-10-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 129289 [Title] => Lustre still a suspect — police [Summary] => He’s not off the hook yet.

A ranking official of the Central Police District dismissed reports yesterday that journalist turned public relations man Philip Lustre is off the hook in last Saturday’s fire that killed his mistress and five relatives in Quezon City.

The police officer in the Central Investigation Division, who requested anonymity, said although no witness has yet come out to make a formal statement, Lustre is still considered the primary suspect in the case.
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