Monday, January 29, 2007 Cops arrest ‘drunk’ blue guard in Lapu for violating gun ban
A “DRUNK” security guard was arrested in Lapulapu city Saturday night for violating the Commission on Elections (Comelec) gun ban.
PO3 Martin Fortuna was on his way home at 8 p.m. when he passed by a shotgun-toting man outside the Merchant Bank in Barangay Pajo at the foot of the first Mandaue-Mactan Bridge.
Panic
The man was allegedly drunk and kept on cocking the gun, causing “panic and fear” among the residents.
The shotgun was loaded with two bullets.
The man was later identified as Bedrick Idales Ancajas, 31, of Barangay Pandan, Bogo, Cebu.
He claimed he was a security guard employed by St. Jude Security Agency and detailed at the bank.
Since he was dressed in civilian clothes and a pair of slippers, the people did not know he was a security guard, he reasoned.
Seeing him, Fortuna immediately accosted Ancajas and demanded that he produce proper documents for the firearm.
Ancajas only managed to present a photocopy of a temporary security license.
After subduing him, Fortuna called for back-up and turned Ancajas over along with the shotgun to PO3 Jonathan Espinosa and PO2 Esperidion Blancia of the Lapu-lapu City Police Precinct 3.
Aside from an illegal possession of firearm and ammunition complaint, Ancajas will also face another for violating the gun ban. (MEA)
