By LEILANIE ADRIANO
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The suspects had three sub-machine guns, two .45cal. handguns, three 9mm, four silencers, eight grenades, 68 live …
PASUQUIN, Ilocos Norte—Four Chinese nationals carrying high-powered arms and improvised explosive devices were arrested on Tuesday evening at a police checkpoint here.
Police said Dennis Co, Dang Hoi Yin, Lui Xin and Lei Guang Feng were spotted at a gasoline station in Barangay Nagsanga. They were there for an hour when one of them suddenly threw a bottle of energy drink for still unknown reasons.
The management of the gasoline station reported the incident to the police who tailed the suspects’ vehicle.
At the Barangay Davila checkpoint, police recovered from the suspects at least three sub-machine guns, two .45cal. handguns, three 9mm, four silencers, eight grenades, 68 live .45 ammos, over 100 9mm ammos, improvised explosive devices, and various car plates.
The suspects, who have been in the country for a month now, failed to present any permit to carry high-powered arms.
Two of the Chinese nationals arrested for carrying high-powered weapons in Ilocos Norte …
Through an English interpreter, the Mandarin-speaking Chinese nationals from mainland China vehemently denied the accusation, saying they were not aware they had those high-powered arms, ammos, and explosive devices in the car.
Last week, 40 Chinese and 12 Taiwanese nationals were arrested for carrying several electronic and computer gadgets and accessories in Mom’s courtyard in Vigan City, Ilocos Sur.
Police have filed charges against them, including the owner of the resort where the foreign nationals set up several cubicles for their telecommunications and computer gadgets.
A few days ago, on May 27, police in Currimao, Ilocos Norte confiscated various electronic and computer gadgets found in rooms rented by two Chinese nationals, Lio Chi Wey and Jack Lim Chan, in Green Nipa Resort, Salugan village.
Police found two laptops, two mobile phones and two flash drives in at least two rooms.
Senior Inspector Don Abrilla Acacio, officer-in-charge of the Currimao municipal police station, reported that on Monday they assisted the National Bureau of Investigation in enforcing search warrant operation 13-21804 in violation of Republic Act No. 8484, Access Devices Regulation Act of 1998.Ilocos police nab Chinese nationals carrying weapons, explosives.
(VERA Files is put out by veteran journalists taking a deeper look at current issues. Vera is Latin for “true.”)
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Philippines police have arrested 40 Chinese and 12 Taiwanese nationals, including 14 women, at a resort in Vigan, a city in the northern Philippine province of Ilocos Sur, who were found with several electronic and computer gadgets and accessories believed to be tools for cybercrime operations.
The foreigners, who were taken to the immigration office in Laoag City, capital of Ilocos Norte, hold authentic and valid passports, but police said they could not explain the purpose of their almost two-month visit in the Philippines and several communication gadgets found in their possession.
“Hundreds of Chinese and Taiwanese nationals have been arrested in different parts of the country while dozens deported over the past several months because of their involvement in cybercrime and credit card fraud,” Vera Files, a non-profit online news portal, said on Tuesday in a report.
Many of these arrested are facing criminal charges for violating government regulations on access devices, as well as due to the illegal possession of electronic gadgets and blank credit cards they used in fraudulent activities.
The 52 foreigners arrested in Vigan had six other companions who managed to slip out before the composite team of police and other government agencies returned to their rented rooms at Mom’s Courtyard, in Vigan’s Barangay Bongtolan, on Monday evening following an inspection they conducted in the morning.
Melbert Tolentino, counsel for the 52 Chinese and Taiwanese nationals, said he would be forced to file illegal detention and coercion charges against the Bureau of Immigration (BI) and Philippine National Police (PNP) should they continue to detain his clients without formal charges.
The arrested foreigners, who refused to be interviewed, are now held at a hotel in Laoag City under the close watch of the police, as the main BI office in Manila decides on their case.
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