The Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) has filed charges against Pulupandan Mayor Magdaleno Peña and four others for illegal possession of firearms, ammunition and explosives, and for harboring a criminal.
At least 22 people were arrested in the last two days for illegal possession of firearms and explosives and vote-buying in Cebu.
The son of Talisay City Mayor Socrates Fernandez has been declared public enemy No. 1 after he escaped from the city police detention cell on Wednesday, three days after he was arrested for illegal possession of explosives and firearms.
The Northern Police District (NPD) has made over a hundred arrests and confiscated around 130 firearms, explosives and other weapons since Jan. 13, the start of the five-month election gun ban.
Police arrested a barangay (village) councilor for carrying illegal drugs and an unlicensed firearm Wednesday morning in his house in Bauan, Batangas.
Four Chinese nationals have been arrested by police after they fired two unlicensed firearms during a shooting competition in a firing range beside the regional police office here.
The drug-crazed man who killed eight people and wounded 12 others in a shooting spree in Kawit, Cavite, last Friday owned two powerful assault rifles and a handgun, an official of the Philippine National Police (PNP) said on Sunday.
A policeman has been placed behind bars after he reportedly brandished his firearm while he was drunk in his area of assignment in Quezon City.
Police arrested a Davao del Sur town mayor and seven of his security aides for alleged illegal possession of firearms and explosives on Thursday.
Warrants of arrest have finally been issued against a suspect in the 2010 bar exam blast, Alpha Phi Omega fraternity member Anthony Leal Nepomuceno.
Concerned about several recent shooting incidents in shopping malls in the country, the national police urged for higher penalties to illegal possession of firearms as well as the stricter compliance for required equipment of security agencies.
