BANGUED, Abra – Combined police operatives and intelligence agents arrested a man after having found in his possession unlicensed firearms and ammunitions during the implementation of a search warrant in his residence at Lingtan, here, Friday night.
Superintendent Mark Pespes, officer-in-charge of the Abra Provincial Police Office, identified the arrested individual as Alvin Belgica @ Vin in Brgy Lingtan, Bangued, Abra.
Confiscated from his possession by the operating troops by virtue of a search warrant issued by Judge Rafael F. Alzate of the Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 1 in Bangued were one cal .45 pistol and one magazine loaded with eight live ammunitions.
The arrested individual and the confiscated pieces of evidence were brought to the Bangued Municipal Police Station for documentation pending the filing of the appropriate charges against him before the provincial prosecutor’s office.
By Dexter A. See