3 men nabbed, 7 illegal guns seized by Cordillera cops
>> Monday, November 12, 2012
CAMP DANGWA, La Trinidad, Benguet –
Three persons were arrested by policemen after having found in their possession
alleged unlicensed firearms in separate operations in the region recently.
Four loose firearms were also surrendered and
recovered in the region.
Chief Supt. Benjamin Magalong, regional
police director identified the three arrested persons as Ortenscio Collado Alconis,
Gerard Bucad Sillatoc and William Wayan Banoca.
Alconis, 55,
resident of Lagangilang, Abra was arrested after Lagangilang town police led by Deputy Chief
of Police SPO4 Felix Ejada Atmosfera responded to a citizen’s call
regarding an incident allegedly involving Alconis who, according to witnesses,
was pointing his gun to a barangay kagawad for no apparent reason.
They found in his possession a homemade
12-gauge shotgun loaded with one live ammunition night of Nov. 3.
Likewise, Sillatoc was arrested by elements
of Tabuk City police when they questioned him on documents of his Honda
motorcycle bearing plate number 125 XRM.
While verifying his documents, P/Insp.
Manolito Meana, who led the checkpoint operation, noticed a gun protruding from
Sillatoc’s waist and when asked about the gun and its pertinent documents, he
could not answer on its ownership nor present documents.
The police discovered that the gun, a 9MM
Beretta pistol, had a “PNP Property” mark bearing Serial Number N547563 with an
inserted magazine loaded with 14 rounds of ammunition.
In Benguet Province, personnel of the
Tuba MPS arrested Banoca, 61, farmer and a resident of Riverside,
Camp 3, in Tuba, for indiscriminately firing a caliber .32 revolver and for
allegedly pointing the same gun to an 8-year old boy.
The seized firearms, ammunition and empty
shells were placed in police custody and will be used as evidence in the
prosecution of the arrested persons.
Magalong ordered the different police
operating units to immediately file the appropriate charges, particularly
violation of the provisions of Presidential Decree 1866 as amended by Republic
Act 8294 or illegal possession of firearms and ammunition against the arrested
persons so that they will suffer the consequences of their actions.
Meanwhile, police also recovered four loose
firearms in separate occasions in the different parts of the region because of
the intensified campaign of law enforcers against the proliferation of loose
firearms in preparation for the conduct of a peaceful and orderly May 2013
elections.
One home-made gauge 12 shotgun and a cal. 38
“paltik” without serial number were surrendered to operatives of the Tadian
Municipal Police Station in Mt. Province on Nov. 3, as a result of a dialogue between the police
and the community and a series of information drive against loose firearms
conducted by the police.
The person who surrendered the said firearm
to PSI Roy Awisan refused to divulge his identity.
The following day, elements of the Paracelis
MPS recovered a 12 gauge shot gun without serial number loaded with live
ammunition at a vacant lot at Sitio Dampsite, Anonat, Paracelis, Mt. Province.
A barangay tanod called the police to pacify
two unidentified male persons who were quarreling. The persons already left the
area when the police came but the latter recovered the abandoned firearm in the
area.
On the other hand, personnel of the Tuba MPS
also recovered an improvised short firearm loaded with one live ammunition of
an M16 Rifle after the police responded to a fist fight report involving a group
of unidentified male persons. The recovered firearm were turned over to PNP
Crime Laboratory for ballistics examination.
“Aside
from private armed groups, loose firearms are considered critical factors that
may affect the conduct of the 2013 Elections,” Magalong
reiterated earlier orders to all COPs to account for all registered and
unregistered gun owners and intensify their OplanBakal/ImplanSita operations as
early as now in their respective areas of responsibility.
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