Military intercepts 12 High powered Firearms at Checkpoint

Apprehended vehicle and firearms intercepted

at Brgy. Datu Saber, Marawi City by the personnel

of 65 Infantry Battalion personnel on 11 o’ clock

of the evening of 23 January 2013.  

By JONG CADION

MARAWI CITY – A total of 12 high powered firearms with ammunition were intercepted by the military belong to the 65^th Infantry Battalion and apprehended two persons  on board a sports utility vehicle while conducting a COMELEC gun ban check point operations at Marawi City Wednesday night January 23, 2013.

65IB Commander LTC Ralph-Raul Sespeñe said that the government operatives initially observed the said vehicle with no plate number to be apparently evading the checkpoint at Brgy Datu Saber of said city. When the soldiers flagged it down, it yielded in plain view one Minimi 5.56mm rifle with the passenger. Upon further visual search inside the vehicle, it yielded more guns or a total of 12 high powered firearms with ammunition as follows:

                     -               1 pc SAW Minimi 5.56 rifle 
                     -               1 pc SAR Galil Rifle 
                     -               1 pc 7.62mm M14 Rifle 
                     -               4 pcs. Baby Armalite 5.56m
                          M653 Rifle with M203 Grenade Launchers 
                     -               2 pc. 5.56mm M16 Rifle 
                     -               1 pc. Cal .308 RiflE
                     -               1 pc 9 mm Machine Rifle 
                     -               1.pc  US 12 Gauge Shotgun

       

The two persons aboard the vehicle were identified as Muslimin Binao Ali and Junaid Ali were brought to Marawi City Police Station for filing appropriate charges regarding the violation on COMELEC GUN BAN case. The vehicle and the firearms were brought to the headquarters of 65IB for legal disposition processing.

The efforts of our soldiers will continue to ensure a peaceful and credible national and local election this coming May 13, 2013 election, Major General Ricardo Rainier Cruz III, Commander of the 1^st Infantry Division assured the people.