Assorted high-powered guns with ammunition were recovered from a retired police officer during an entrapment operation on June 29 at Rizal Street in Brgy. IV, Hinigaran, Negros Occidental.
Nabbed by the combined teams of the Hinigaran police, troopers of the 2nd Negros Occidental Police Provincial Mobile Force Company, and NOCPPO intelligence operatives was Demosthenes Fernandez, 58, of Villa Angela Subdivision in Brgy. Villamonte, Bacolod City.
Fernandez, a widower, was apprehended after selling a 9mm Ingram automatic pistol to Maj. Jake Barila, Hinigaran police chief.
More firearms, including M16 and M14 assault rifles, a 40 caliber pistol, another 9mm pistol, a revolver, and assorted ammunition and magazines of the confiscated firearms, were seized by the police, during the arrest of the suspect.
Barila said that the suspect, who introduced himself as General Fernandez, had been texting and calling him about the illegal drug trade in Hinigaran.
The suspect later told him that he was selling an Ingram automatic pistol for P60,000, Barila said.
This prompted him to coordinate with the 2nd NOCPMFC for an operation, with him as the poseur buyer, the police chief added.
Fernandez is now detained at the Hinigaran Police Station custodial facility. – GB
