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Wednesday, January 14, 2004
2 Janiuay residents charged for owning unlicensed guns
By Ruby P. Silubrico
POLICE authorities filed charges against two residents of Janiuay whose houses they raided last Friday, for owning unlicensed guns and ammunition.
Charged before the Municipal Cirsuit Trial Court of Janiuay-Badiangan were Pedro Hontanar and Eiman Caņa.
Joint police operatives of the Iloilo Police Provincial Office (IPPO), the Janiuay Police Station and the 2nd Mobile Group seized high-powered firearms and ammunition from the house of Hontanar in Barangay Tambal.
Caņa's father-in-law surrendered Cana's .22 caliber rifle. His son-in-law was not around during the raid.
Hontanar's nephew, Reynante, is also the subject of the search warrant, but he was not in the charge sheet because policemen did not find firearms in his house.
Chief Insp. Eugenio Espejo, Janiuay police chief, said Hontanar and Caņa were not charged for violation of Commission on Elections (Comelec) gun ban because the firearms were recovered inside their house.
The raiding team swooped down on Hontanar's residence dawn last Friday, bearing three search warrants issued by MCTC Judge Domingo Diamante.
Recovered Hontanar were an M14 rifle, Galil rifle, three carbines, two long homemade 12-gauge shotguns, a short 12-gauge shotgun, a caliber .38 revolver, two rifle grenades and several rounds of ammunition.
(January 12, 2004 issue)
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