A cache of high powered firearms seized in Lanao

From the Philippine News Agency (Feb 13): A cache of high powered firearms seized in Lanao

Combined police and military seized a large cache of high powered firearms in a house of a town official in Lanao Del Sur Wednesday dawn.

The police were still making an inventory of the firearms as of press time which initially totaled 44 pieces of assorted long and short firearms, including a machine gun and thousands of assorted ammunitions.

Pol. Senior Supt. Ronnie Carriaga, spokesperson of the PNP regional command here, said that the raiding team armed with a search warrant swooped down on the house of Vice Mayor Lacson Mangutara Langtod of Pantaoragat about 2:30 Wednesday dawn.

He said that only the wife of Langtod, the former town Mayor Eleonor Dimaporo was around when law enforcers served the warrant issued by a judge in Manila through Judge Mario de la Cruz of Lanao Del Sur.

Dimaporo was brought to the regional PNP headquarters here for questioning along with seven members of the Civilian Armed Forces Geographical Unit (CAFGU), and a police mobile car.

The CAFGU were having checkpoint in the area while the police mobile car was recovered in the mayor’s compound when the team conducted the raid Wednesday dawn. He said that the owners of the guns and ammunitions might face charges once proven that those items were illegally acquired.

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