INTENSIFIED ANTI-CRIME CAMPAIGN. Brig. Gen. Arthur Cabalona, Police Regional Office - Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (PRO-BARMM) director, orders law enforcers to intensify the campaign against loose firearms and other violators in the runup to May 9 elections. Police arrested during a simultaneous operation in the region Tuesday (May 3, 2022) 18 suspects, including four wanted men. (Photo courtesy of PRO-BARMM)
CAMP SK PENDATUN, Maguindanao – Eighteen persons were arrested during a simultaneous police operation in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), a top police official said Wednesday.
Brig. Gen. Arthur Cabalona, BARMM police director, said the offenders—four of whom wanted persons—were separately arrested during Simultaneous Anti-Criminality Law Enforcement Operations (SACLEO) in Maguindanao, Lanao del Sur, Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi provinces, and the cities of Cotabato, Marawi and Lamitan.
Nabbed during the “Manhunt Charlie” operations Tuesday were four wanted persons, four drug personalities, and 10 anti-gambling law violators.
“They have long been wanted for various crimes,” Cabalona said of the wanted persons arrested in Cotabato City and the provinces of Maguindanao and Basilan.
He said four drug personalities were also arrested in Basilan and Cotabato City during separate anti-illegal drug operations that resulted in the confiscation of PHP5,050 worth of shabu.
Cabalona also reported the arrest of 10 persons for illegal gambling in Lanao del Sur and Tawi-Tawi.
Meanwhile, he said they seized at least 21 loose firearms at checkpoints for the election gun ban.
Police also managed to seize illegally-cut forest products, he added. (PNA)
