Woman nabbed for carrying guns | Inquirer News

Woman nabbed for carrying guns

/ 09:02 AM May 10, 2012

She said selling guns was her only means of livelihood.

The 45-year-old suspect named Luzviminda Bayo was arrested Tuesday in a police checkpoint in Pulangbato Wharf, barangay Pulangbato, Bogo City, northern Cebu.

Police seized three .357 homemade revolvers loaded with three live bullets and a .22 caliber inside Bayo’s handbag after they were tipped that a woman carrying guns was on her way to the wharf to board a boat heading to Cataingan, Masbate.

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Police said Bayo of barangay Suba, Danao City, did not hesitate to have her bag checked at the passenger’s passage area of MV Montenegro Shipping.

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Police said Bayo was on her way to Masbate to deliver the unlicensed firearms to a customer.

Bayo was charged with illegal possession of firearms yesterday.

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“Kapit sa patalim,” PO3 Edwin Dignos of the Bogo police quoted Bayo’s words./RHEA RUTH V. ROSELL

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