Thursday, June 26, 2014

Cache of high-powered firearms, ammos recovered in Bacolod City raid

From the Philippine News Agency (Jun 26): Cache of high-powered firearms, ammos recovered in Bacolod City raid

A hidden cache of high-powered caliber of firearms and voluminous rounds of live ammunitions were recovered by the Philippine National Police (PNP) in a Wednesday evening raid in Bacolod City.

Report reaching Iloilo City Thursday morning said that operatives of the Regional Intelligence Unit (RIU-6)led by Police Supt. Ronald Alan Gepana swooped down on a house being rented by one Eugene Gawat located along San Carlos Avenue West, Sta. Clara, Banago, Bacolod City.

A thorough search of said house led to the seizure of 16 units of AK-47 assault rifles and live ammunitions inside the Toyota Grandia van parked in the garage inside the compound.

Also recovered inside the subject house were two .45 caliber pistol, two 12-gauge shotgun and a sniper rifle, magazines and hundreds of rounds of live ammos for AK-47 as well as thousands of live ammos of various high-powered caliber bullets.

The raiding team, however, said the subject person was not around during the said police operation that was conducted by virtue of the search warrant issued by Executive Judge Anita Guanzon-Chua of Bacolod City Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 51, for violation of Republic Act 10591 or illegal possession of firearms and ammunitions.

The RIU-6 said the suspect was reportedly linked to former Pulupandan Mayor Magdaleno “Magsy” Pena whose residence was also raided by the police before the May polls last year, also for hiding cache of high-powered firearms.

The Bacolod raid which led to the recovery of assault AK-47 rifles and ammunitions also came following the seizure of AK-47 rifles at a checkpoint in Agusan del Sur on Wednesday.

The RIU-6 is presently in the process of verifying with the higher PNP hierarchy to determine if these AK-47 assault rifles recovered in Bacolod raid were part of the missing 1,000 units of AK-47 rifles earlier alleged to have been sold by several erring police officials to the underground rebels.

http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=657151

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