Girl caught carrying improvised shotgun

A 16-YEAR-OLD member of a youth gang was arrested for allegedly possessing an improvised shotgun locally known as pugakhang in barangay Maguikay, Mandaue City.

Police said the girl was with a group of friends drinking liquor in a gas station when she was apprehended past midnight Saturday.

The girl is reportedly a member of the Crips Gang.

Senior Insp. Ramil Morpos, chief of the Casuntingan police station, said they rushed to the gas station after they were tipped off by a concerned citizen that a girl was seen in the area carrying a backpack containing a firearm.

Morpos said they saw the girl hide a backpack behind the plants before she went to the gas station’s toilet.

Police checked the backpack and found an improvised shotgun loaded with a bullet for a 12-gauge shotgun.

Police asked the girl to come out of the toilet and then brought her to the police station.

The girl denied owning the gun, saying that someone just asked her to keep it.

The girl, who was detained at the Subangdaku police station, will be charged with illegal possession of a firearm, police said.

Police said further investigation will be made to identify the real owner of the gun./REPORTER JUCELL MARIE P. CUYOS