2 gun runners nabbed in Angeles City sting
CAMP TOMAS J. PEPITO, STO. DOMINGO, Angeles City – Angeles City police arrested two members of a gun for hire group in its intensified “oplan salikop” campaign.
Angeles City police chief Col. Rommel Batangan identified the suspects as Ricardo Malig and Edgar Manalastas, both members of the Lazo crime group involved in gun running, syndicated estafa, fraud, counterfeit bank notes and false treasury operating in the cities of Mabalacat and Angeles in Pampanga and nearby provinces.
Batangan said members of the Pampanga and Angeles CIDG and SWAT teams conducted on Thursday an entrapment at Caffe Forest on Arayat Road, Bgy. Pampang, Angeles City against the suspects for gun running.
Authorities seized from Malig a sling bag containing a .38 revolver loaded with six live bullets, a fragmentation grenade, a cellphone used in his transactions, an ID belonging to a certain Guiao and P1,000 marked money.
Manalastas yielded a loaded .38 pistol, fragmentation grenade, a cellphone and a motorcycle key.
Batangan said the two suspects will be charged with violation of Republic Act 10591 and Republic Act 9516.
