{"id":20238,"date":"2026-05-31T01:03:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T17:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/?p=20238"},"modified":"2026-05-31T01:03:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T17:03:50","slug":"stl-bookie-operator-arrested-while-collecting-bets-at-tarlac-public-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/stl-bookie-operator-arrested-while-collecting-bets-at-tarlac-public-market\/","title":{"rendered":"STL BOOKIE OPERATOR ARRESTED WHILE COLLECTING BETS AT TARLAC PUBLIC MARKET"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY KEVIN GALANG<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga &#8212; An alleged illegal numbers game operator was arrested by operatives of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) Regional Field Unit 3 in an entrapment operation in Tarlac.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>According to CIDG RFU3 chief Col. Grant Gollod, the operation was part of the intensified effort against illegal gambling.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-style: revert-layer; font-weight: revert-layer;\">Members of the CIDG Tarlac Provincial Field Unit and the Concepcion Municipal Police Station conducted \u201cOPLAN Bolilyo\u201d\u00a0 at the Concepcion Public Market in Bgy. San Nicolas (Pob.), Concepcion.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-style: revert-layer; font-weight: revert-layer;\">Arrested was alias \u201cNiel,\u201d 62, a sales supervisor or \u201ckabo,\u201d while engaging in illegal numbers game operations locally known as \u201cSTL bookies,&#8221; in violation of Presidential Decree 1602 as amended by Republic Act 9287.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-style: revert-layer; font-weight: revert-layer;\">The suspect was an authorized Small Town Lottery representative but allegedly used the STL authorized agent system as a front for illegal lotteries and unauthorized betting operations not sanctioned by the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO), in violation of Section 26 of the STL Implementing Rules and Regulations.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-style: revert-layer; font-weight: revert-layer;\">Seized from the suspect were a marked P50 bill, betting receipts, used and unused \u201cpapelitos,\u201d a black ballpen, authorized betting slips, and P2,745 in alleged bet collections.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-style: revert-layer; font-weight: revert-layer;\">Alias \u201cNiel\u201d was brought to the CIDG Tarlac PFU office for documentation and proper disposition.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gollod reiterated their commitment to intensifying operations against illegal gambling.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-style: revert-layer; font-weight: revert-layer;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-style: revert-layer; font-weight: revert-layer;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY KEVIN GALANG &nbsp; CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga &mdash; An alleged illegal numbers game operator was arrested by operatives of the Criminal Investigation and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20240,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20238\/revisions\/20240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}