GUIMBA, Nueva Ecija – Police seized illegal firearms and ammunition during the implementation of a search warrant against a barangay chairman here on Monday, July 3.
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Gil Gamis, chairman of Barangay San Miguel, yielded an M16 rifle, carbine, rifle grenade, bullets, magazine assemblies, and a flare gun.
The search warrant was issued by Judge Frazierwin Villaflor Viterbo, executive judge, Regional Trial Court, Third Judicial Region, Branch 33, here, for violation of Republic Act 10591 (Comprehensive Law on Firearms and Ammunition).
The operation was witnessed by barangay officials.
“We have been continuously beefing up our aggressive drive to recover and to seize loose firearms through continuous police operations and implementation of search warrants against illegal gun owners,” Police Regional Office-3 Director Police Brig. Jose Hidalgo Jr. said.