Twenty high-powered firearms, ammunition, bayonets, and magazines, were seized in a raid on a residence at Santa Clara Subdivision in Brgy. Banago, Bacolod City, last night.
A team from the Regional Intelligence Unit-6 recovered 16 AK-47 rifles, 11 boxes containing bullets, 140 empty magazines, 30 bayonets, 26 leather magazine pouches, 12 cleaning kits, and several rifle slings, from a wood box in a Toyota Grand Hiace van.
The van, with plate number BDW 122, was covered with a canvas canopy and was parked at the garage of the two-storey house.
Two other shotguns, a rifle, two .45 caliber pistols, and assorted ammunition were discovered and seized from a steel cabinet in one of the rooms of the house.
However, Eugene Gawat, the subject of the search warrant issued by Regional Trial Court, Branch 51 Judge Anita Guanzon-Chua yesterday, was not at the house during the raid.
Only the three helpers and the mother of Gawat were allegedly at the house when the raiding team arrived, one of the intelligence operatives told the DAILY STAR.
Joy Barbasa, the lawyer of the Gawat family, who went to the compound last night, told the media that they will present the licenses of the firearms, but need to first inventory the seized items, and get a copy of the search warrant.
The house is owned by the Jalandoni family but is being rented by the Lacson and Gawat family, reports said.
The seized items will be turned over to the Provincial Crime Laboratory, an RIU operative said.
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