MIDSAYAP, North Cotabato (PNA) – The police and military arrested here Tuesday night four armed men, one of them a candidate for barangay chairman, for possession of unlicensed high-powered firearms.
The arrest of the group came hours after a candidate for barangay chairman was murdered near the Commission on Elections office here at about noontime the same day.
“Our police officers were implementing gun ban via plain view principle when they noticed what appeared to be a pistol protruding in the waist of one passenger,” Pinalgan said in a radio interview Wednesday. “They have no gun ban exemption from the Comelec. Their guns were unlicensed,” Pinalgan said. “They are still undergoing investigation while the firearms have been forwarded to the police crime lab for validation and cross-matching.”
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