INGYON, Ifugao September 27 – A 27-year old Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) was arrested by police operatives after he reportedly indiscriminately fired his unlicensed gun that resulted in an atmosphere of fear among villagers at sitio Ibutangon, barangay Mompolia here around 7.50 pm Saturday.
Superintendent Cherry Fajardo, public information officer of the Police Regional Office (PRO) in the Cordillera, identified the arrested OFW as Ramy Hangdaan Nabanalan, 27, married and a resident of sitio Ibutangon, barangay Mompolia, Hingyon, Ifugao.
Initial police investigation showed concerned residents reportedly informed the elements of the Hingyon Municipal Police station of the indiscriminate firing done by the suspect on his firearm within their neighborhood that caused an atmosphere among them for fear that he might inflict injuries to anyone of them using his firearm.
Responding police operatives were able to arrest the suspect and brought him to the Hingyon Municipal Police Station for documentation awaiting the filing of the appropriate charges of alarm and scandal and illegal discharge of firearm against him before the provincial prosecutor’s office.