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Truck sideswipes Valenzuela enforcer

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A member of the Valenzuela city hall traffic enforcement unit died after he was sideswiped by a truck on the afternoon of October 13.

The fatality identified as Raymart Discaya, 25, member of the Public Order and Safety Management Office of the Valenzuela City Hall, was maneuvering his motorcycle on Gen. Luis Street in Barangay Paso de Blas at about   4:25 p.m.   when he was hit by an Isuzu truck with licensed plate AGA-7608 driven by one Charly Turtoga, 28, of   1001 Gen. San Miguel Street, Sangandaan, Caloocan City.

SPO2 Tirso Delina of the Vehicle Traffic Investigation Unit said the victim’s service motorcycle was travelling side by side with the truck.    

Although he was wearing a helmet, the victim’s head suffered severe injuries due to the strong impact of the collision.   

Turtoga was later arrested and police charged him with face reckless imprudence resulted to homicide and damage to property.

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Still in Camanava, two suspected drug pushers were arrested by the Caloocan police on Thursday for attempting to sell 30 grams of suspected shabu.

The suspects were identified as Raymart Salonga, 22,of Bagong Silang, and Gasanara Baranbangan, of Tala, Caloocan.

Senior Supt. Johnson Almazan confiscated from Salonga a plastic sachet containing five grams of shabu.

On the basis of information given by Salonga, another buy-bust operation was conducted outside a Shop and Ride terminal market in Quezon City that led to the arrest of Baranbangan who yielded five grams of shabu.

When the suspect was frisked, another 20 grams of shabu were recovered.

Meanwhile, a Caloocan policeman was shot dead by a suspect he accosted in Grace Park recently.

The victim, identified as P02 Rancel Cruz, 36, of Sampaloc, Manila died on the spot.

Caloocan City police commander Senior Supt Johnson Almazan said the policeman was assigned at police community precinct 2.

The policeman was patrolling his beat patrol on a motorcycle at around 1:10 a.m. on 3rd Avenue, Barangay 119 Grace Park (East) when he stopped a man to check the bulging object hidden in his waist.

The unidentified man shot the cop on the head and fled on foot towards Rizal Avenue Extension.

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