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==Tawi-Tawi cops nab suspected human trafficker; rescue 4 victims== | |||
*Source: http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=376226 | |||
*September 30, 2011, 8:43 pm | |||
:By (PNA) RMA/Teofilo P. Garcia/utb | |||
ZAMBOANGA CITY, Sept. 30 (PNA)) – Police arrested Friday the suspected illegal recruiter of four underage women who were rescued a day earlier in Tawi-Tawi. | |||
Tawi-Tawi police director Supt. Rodelio Jocson said the four victims of human trafficking were rescued around 3 p.m. Thursday in Barangay Basyagan, Bongao, the capital of Tawi-Tawi province. | |||
Jocson withheld the victims' identities except in saying they were aged 16s and 17s and all from Sindangan municipality, Zamboanga del Norte. | |||
Jocson said the victims were rescued by policemen led by Insp. Jeseryl Dela Cruz aboard a motorized banca that was about to depart Bongao en route to Sandakan. | |||
Jocson said Dela Cruz and his personnel failed to arrest the suspect, who suddenly disappeared upon seeing the presence of policemen at the time the victims were rescued. | |||
However, he said the suspect, who carried three different names, was arrested shortly after 7 a.m. Friday aboard a vessel that was scheduled to leave Bongao to Zamboanga City. | |||
The suspect was arrested near the boat's canteen when one of the victims, who was at that time were eating their breakfast, recognized him, he said. | |||
The suspect was only identified through the two passenger tickets he carried as he was not bringing any other identification papers when arrested by the police, Jocson said. | |||
One of the passenger tickets seized from the suspect's possession bears the name of Ian Reyes while Ian Balmendras on the other ticket, Joscon said. | |||
Jocson said they were informed by the victims that the suspect had introduced himself as Rey Garcia when he recently recruited them in Sindangan, Zamboanga del Norte. | |||
The suspect is a resident of Liloy municipality, Zamboanga del Norte, Jocson said. | |||
The victims said that the suspect hired them to work to a Chinese employer in Sandakan, Sabah, Malaysia but it was not clear what would be their work “as they were told that they will know what are their jobs upon arrival,” Jocson disclosed. | |||
The rescued victims were turned over to the custody of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) while the suspect was detained and charges were being readied for filing in court, Jocson said. | |||
==Tawi-Tawi hosts local film festival== | ==Tawi-Tawi hosts local film festival== | ||
*Source: http://www.philstar.com/nation/article.aspx?publicationSubCategoryId=200&articleId=732149 | *Source: http://www.philstar.com/nation/article.aspx?publicationSubCategoryId=200&articleId=732149 | ||
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The three winning films of the Lanao del Sur film festival’s short film competition on the theme of Peace - Margas (Najib Alyhar Benito Zacaria, 2011), Renek (Doss Lucman Pacasum, 2011), and Pagari (Sittie Ayeesha Dicali, 2011). (Mindanao Examiner ) | The three winning films of the Lanao del Sur film festival’s short film competition on the theme of Peace - Margas (Najib Alyhar Benito Zacaria, 2011), Renek (Doss Lucman Pacasum, 2011), and Pagari (Sittie Ayeesha Dicali, 2011). (Mindanao Examiner ) | ||
==Greece envoy lauds peace situation in Tawi-Tawi== | ==Greece envoy lauds peace situation in Tawi-Tawi== | ||