Police in Gapan City have arrested 13 people for alleged involvement in illegal cockfights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
The Philippines.-\u00a013 people have been arrested<\/strong>\u00a0after police found an illegal cockfight underneath bamboo trees in the village of Mabura in Gapan City, Nueva Ecija. According to officers, those arrested are aged between 37 to 63.\u00a0Some tried to evade arrest\u00a0<\/strong>by jumping into the river but were caught.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Police seized three live and one dead fighting cocks and PHP2,380 in bet money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A month ago, 56 people, including\u00a0two barangay (district) captains and a councilman<\/strong>, were\u00a0arrested on suspicion of engaging in tupada or illegal cockfighting<\/a>\u00a0in Pandacan, Manila.\u00a0Meanwhile, in January, the superintendent of police Siddharth Kaushal reported that police\u00a0dismantled 52 arenas readied for cockfights<\/a>\u00a0in various parts of the district.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Police in Gapan City have arrested 13 people for alleged involvement in illegal cockfights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":20111,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Philippine authorities have conducted multiple enforcement actions against illegal cockfighting operations, leading to numerous arrests and the dismantling of illicit gambling venues. These actions underscore ongoing efforts to combat unregulated gaming activities within the jurisdiction. The seizures of betting funds and fighting cocks highlight the tangible impact of these regulatory interventions.","focusai_entities":"Siddharth Kaushal","focusai_location":"Philippines, Gapan City, Nueva Ecija, Mabura, Pandacan, Manila","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.7), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.7), investor_analyst (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Regulatory Efficacy?","query":"What specific governance frameworks and inter-agency coordination mechanisms are being deployed by Philippine authorities to enhance the efficacy of enforcement against illegal gambling operations, and what metrics are used to assess their success?"},{"label":"Market Integrity Impact?","query":"How do these ongoing crackdowns on illegal cockfighting contribute to the overall integrity of the regulated gaming market in the Philippines, and what is the estimated impact on potential GGR for licensed operators?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[229,23911],"class_list":["post-27854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-gambling","tag-gambling-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27854"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27862,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27854\/revisions\/27862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}