CAMP FLORENDO, San Fernando City, La Union -- A murder suspect and seven others were arrested in an intensified campaign against loose firearms by Ilocos and Bulacan police last week.
Those arrested Jan. 8 in Pangasinan were identified as Armando Flores, 40, and Jaylord Tiri and his brother, Arnold.
Flores, 40, an alleged member of the Pine-Bonete robbery gang, did not resist arrest when cornered in San Aurelio 1st in Balungao town in Pangasinan at about 11 a.m. Chief Supt. Constante Azares Jr., regional police director, said Flores yielded a Cal.45 pistol.
Azares said they are now checking reports that Flores also served as a private army member of a politician in Pangasinan.
“He is listed in our order of battle for being a member of the Pine-Bonete criminal gang engaged in gun for hire, robbery-holdup, carnapping and gunrunning,” said Azares.
He added the suspect’s group operates in eastern Pangasinan and nearby municipalities of Tarlac and Nueva Ecija.
Flores was about to sell a Remington .Cal. 45 pistol to a buyer when elements of the regional intelligence police division, intelligence branch of Pangasinan police and Balungao police station pounced on him.
Senior Supt. Roman Pese, chief directorial staff of Ilocos police said the raiders recovered the said firearm with six bullets.
In his report to Azares, Pese said Flores was prime suspect in the killing of Dario Tabugan, on May 7, 2008 in Carmen West, Rosales, Pangasinan.
Tabugan was president of the Association of Barangay Chairmen in San Manuel, Tarlac and a resident of Barangay Salcedo, in the said town.
Three hours later, the Tiri brothers were intercepted at a checkpoint along the national highway of Barangay Bulag in Bantay town in Ilocos Sur.
Elements of the Ilocos Sur provincial public safety management group recovered two Cal.38 revolvers from the Tiri brothers.
“We will be intensifying our checkpoint operations to strictly implement the gun ban as the election period started on Jan. 10,” said Azares, adding that they are targeting suspected private armies.
Azares ordered the confiscation of the motorcycle used by the Tiri brothers and filing of charges against them.
In Bulacan five more violators of the gun ban were identified by Senior Supt. Edgardo G. Tinio, newly designated provincial director as Danilo Gonzales, 44, of Balaong, San Miguel, Bulacan; Jess Dela Cruz, 48, of Parang, Marikina City; Kim Harvey Garcia, 29, a security guard, of San Juan, San Pablo City; Christopher Godoy, 19, of Kalawakan, Doña Remedios Trinidad, Bulacan; and Crisante Falguera, 24, a security guard, of Culiat, Quezon City.
Tinio said Gonzales, Dela Cruz, Garcia and Godoy were arrested in a Comelec-PNP checkpoint along Cagayan Valley Road in Anyatam, San Ildefonso. Falguera was arrested by personnel manning a checkpoint in Saog, Marilao.
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