A soldier was arrested by personnel of Police Station 10 led by Chief Inspector Raymond Sanson for carrying an explosive inside a passenger bus along the highway of Barangay Patalon, this city, last Sunday afternoon.
Sanson told Zamboanga Today they received a call from a concerned citizen about a suspicious person onboard D’Biel Transit Bus wearing camouflage pants armed with a fragmentation hand grenade.
He said the informant averred that the suspect pulled out a hand grenade from his pocket and claimed that he was preparing to defend himself from his enemy in Barangay Talisayan, this city.
Immediately, a joint team from the police and Task Force Zamboanga (TFZ) led by Sanson and Lieutenant Elroy Tarot, respectively, responded at the area to confirm the report and spotted the passenger bus at Patalon highway.
Sanson said upon verification, the team was able to arrest the suspect who was later identified as Alex Labtan y Balmoris, 28, a native of Cagayan de Oro City and assigned with the 4th Special Forces Battalion based in Maluso Municipality Basilan Province.
The soldier was conducted to the police station for proper investigation while the explosive was turned over to the investigator-on-case.
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