74 nabbed as Ilocos cops keep crime crackdown amid rains

SAN ILDEFONSO, Ilocos Sur, Philippines—Ilocos Region police arrested 74 people in anti-illegal drug and manhunt operations from Aug. 8 to 14, even as police units responded to flooding and other impacts of the southwest monsoon, or habagat. According to the Ilocos Police Regional Office 1 (PRO 1), 25 anti-drug operations resulted in the arrest of