Guns, grenades seized in wanted men’s lair in Maguindanao

From the Philippine News Agency (Apr 28, 2021): Guns, grenades seized in wanted men’s lair in Maguindanao (By Edwin Fernandez)

ASSORTED FIREARMS. The arms cache found by policemen in a lair of two wanted men in Pandag, Maguindanao on Wednesday (April 28, 2021). Operatives of CIDG-BARMM have launched pursuit operations to arrest the duo. (Photo courtesy of CIDG-BARMM)

Agents of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (CIDG-BARMM) seized Wednesday assorted high-power firearms, gun parts, and explosives in the house of two wanted men in Maguindanao.

Maj. Esmael Madin, CIDG-BARMM Maguindanao field unit chief, said the wanted men--Joross Guimad and Joemar Sagandingan, both subjects of an arrest warrant for murder-- were already gone when they arrived at the suspects’ hideout in Barangay Kabuling, Pandag at 4 a.m.

“The house was already empty when we arrived,” Madin said.

Neighbors, however, told the authorities that the duo was at the house several hours earlier.

Seized at the suspects’ hideout were two fragmentation grenades, a rifle grenade, a .50-caliber Barrett sniper’s rifle, an M79 grenade launcher, gun parts, and six .38-caliber revolvers and ammunition.

Madin said pursuit operations are still ongoing against the two felons.

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1138256