Three Chinese nationals were arrested by members of the Parañaque City Police Tambo Substation for illegal possession of drugs, firearms and for violations of the land transportation and traffic code on Thursday, October 24.
The arrested suspects (Photo from Parañaque police)
Southern Police District (SPD) Director Brig. Gen. Bernard Yang said the suspects, identified as alias “Zhenhua,” 30, alias “Zhi,” 29, and alias “Miu,” 26, were arrested at around 7:58 a.m.
They were spotted by patrolling policemen acting suspiciously and changing the plate number of two vehicles.
The police said that when requested to present documents for the two vehicles, the suspects failed to show any and attempted to flee leading to a brief chase and to their eventual arrest.
The police recovered from Zhenhua 25 grams of shabu worth P197,000 and one Bersa caliber .380 pistol. The same amount of shabu was also recovered from alias Zhi. Alias Miu yielded P120,000 worth of marijuana and a .9mm pistol.
The police also recovered from the suspects six different license plates and tools including handcuffs and shovels.
The suspects were detained at the police custodial facility and were charged for violations of Article 151 of the Revised Penal Code, as well as Sections 11 and 12 of Article II of Republic Act 9165 (Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act), RA 10591 (Comprehensive Firearms and Ammunition Regulation Act) and RA 4136 (Land Transportation and Traffic Code).