A cache of firearms and ammunition was recovered Tuesday by the police during a raid at the residence of a former member of the New People's Army in Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental.
Armed with a search warrant issued Judge Dialinda Dominguez, a combined team of policemen and operatives of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group swooped down on the house of Benjamen Baliguat, alias Ben, in Sitio Abtao, Brgy. Tapi, Kabankalan City.
Chief Inspector Eduardo Corpuz, Kabankalan City police officer-in-charge, said the raid yielded a .45 caliber Colt pistol with three magazines containing 25 live ammunition, a 9mm KG9 Luger pistol with two magazines filled with 25 bullets, a KG 9 gun silencer, a homemade 12 guage shotgun with nine ammunition, 23 ammunition for 22 pistol and 357 magnum revolver, as well as an empty magazine of M14 assault rifle.
Baliguat, a former NPA member, failed to present documents, allowing him to possess the firearms, Corpuz said.
The raid and arrest of Baliguat was an offshoot of complaints that he engaged in indiscriminate firing, he added.
Corpuz said Baliguat was denied bail, after he was charged yesterday by CIDG for illegal possession of firearms and ammunition before the Negros Occidental Provincial Prosecutor's Office.
A day earlier, operatives of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency and policemen conducted a joint stake-out operation in Purok Sunflower, Brgy. Poblacion, Bago City.
The anti-drug operation yielded a sachet of suspected shabu and two motorcycles.
However, the subject of the police operation, identified as Rolly Magbanua, alias Amik, managed to escape.
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