PAGADIAN CITY (Mindanao Examiner / Oct. 13, 2013) – Police arrested a village official and his companion in Zamboanga del Sur province on gun and drug charges, officials said Sunday.
Officials said the official Wilmer Deles, 34, and his driver Rosmar Barredo, 31, were apprehended during an inspection at a checkpoint along the Zamboanga highway in Aurora town.
Barredo reportedly yielded an unlicensed .45-caliber pistol while two sachets of suspected shabu and two dozen rolled aluminium foils were allegedly seized from Deles – both are residents of Lintugop village.
The two men were travelling on a motorcycle when policemen led by SPO4 Jeremias Pepito stopped them at the checkpoint for a routine inspection, according to Chief Inspector Ariel Huesca, a regional police spokesman.
“The arrested barangay official was brought and detained at the Aurora Municipal Police Station and the driver is still being investigated for carrying an illegal weapon,” he said. (Mindanao Examiner)
PAGADIAN CITY (Mindanao Examiner / Oct. 13, 2013) – Police arrested a village official and his companion in Zamboanga del Sur province on gun and drug charges, officials said Sunday.
Officials said the official Wilmer Deles, 34, and his driver Rosmar Barredo, 31, were apprehended during an inspection at a checkpoint along the Zamboanga highway in Aurora town.
Barredo yielded an unlicensed .45-caliber pistol while two sachets of suspected shabu and two dozen rolled aluminium foils were seized from Deles – both are residents of Lintugop village.
The two men were travelling on a motorcycle when policemen led by SPO4 Jeremias Pepito stopped them at the checkpoint for a routine inspection, according to Chief Inspector Ariel Huesca, a regional police spokesman.
“The arrested barangay official was brought and detained at the Aurora Municipal Police Station and the driver is still being investigated for carrying an illegal weapon,” he said. (Mindanao Examiner)
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