Thursday, April 17, 2008 Ilocos Sur toughie nabbed for 'illegal gun possession'
AS A result of the intensified operations against the proliferation of loose firearms, the Philippine National Police-Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (PNP-CIDG) recently arrested a neighborhood toughie with a cache of firearms in Ilocos Sur.
CIDG Regional Director Marvin Bolabola identified the suspect as Gregorio Tabasan, a resident of Lao-ingen, Santo Domingo, Ilocos Sur.
Confiscated from him were one Colt AR-15 baby Armalite rifle, one homemade shotgun, three M-16 rifle long ammunition magazines, five live shotgun ammunition and 86 rounds of live bullets for caliber 5.56 Armalite rifles.
"A cache of high-powered firearms and ammunition of different caliber were confiscated by our operatives from a notorious toughie in Sto. Domingo, Ilocos Sur, who was condemned by his neighbors for firing his firearms whenever he was under the influence of liquor," Bolabola disclosed.
He said the arrest of Tabasan was implemented by his men led by Chief Inspector Ricarte Marquez by virtue of a search warrant issued by Judge Francisco Ante Jr. of the Municipal Trial Court in Cities of Vigan, Ilocos Sur, after he received reports of indiscriminate firing by the suspect whenever he was drunk.
"The arrest of Tabasan and confiscation of the firearms could have not ended had the people in his neighborhood kept mum about his activities," he explained. (EO)
