Highway Patrol, police operatives arrest 2 men with cal. 50 machinegun
Local News • 16:30 PM Fri Jun 4, 2021
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The suspects and the war materials. (HPG photo)
COTABATO CITY – Police arrested here two men for possession of a cal. 50 machinegun while entering the city from Maguindanao.
Joint operatives PNP, Marines and Highway Patrol Group (HPG) intercepted a green sedan car at a quarantine checkpoint in Barangay Poblacion 1 at past 10 a.m.
Government forces noticed two men acting suspiciously during checkpoint operation.
Police found a cal. 45 pistol and disassembled cal. 50 machine gun with bullets inside the car.
In a report submitted by HPG-Cotabato City to HPG Director General Alexander Tagum, Lt. Colonel Joy Andrade of HPG Cotabato said the suspects were identified as Mohaddin Sabal Monico, 35 and Alidatu Abdul Monico, 28, both of Maguindanao who were flagged down at 10:30 a.m. along Delta Bridge.
HPG operatives were checking on the vehicles registration records when the two showed restlessness.
The two refused to talk to media and remained silent inside the police lock-up cell.