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Mayor owns armed ‘goons’

Police Insp. Jose Villarin (above), officer-in-charge of the Madridejos police, shows firearms and ammunition seized from five armed men who were arrested at a checkpoint of Bantayan Island subtask force.(Sun.star photo/Alex Badayos)

FIVE men armed with high-powered firearms were arrested in a checkpoint by the subtask group in Bantayan Island Thursday night.

Their arrest came at a time when police are extra-vigilant in the island following the fatal shooting of the Sta. Fe mayoral candidate Rogelio Ilustrisimo Sr.

Sta Fe is one of the towns in the northern Cebu island.

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