Police raid yields cache of illegal firearms, ammunition in Quezon

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LUCENA CITY, Philippines – Police raided the house of a businessman in Tiaong, Quezon early Wednesday morning and confiscated assorted firearms and hundreds of rounds of ammunition, a police official said.

Superintendent Rancer Evasco, officer in charge of the Quezon provincial public safety company, said the raiders swooped down at 5 a.m. on the house of one Gabriel Concha in Barangay (village) Lumingon in Tiaong and found one carbine rifle, five .45-cal., one 9-mm, one .38-cal. and one .22-cal. handguns.

Evasco said all the seized firearms were unlicensed.

The raiders, who were armed with a search warrant issued by Judge Dennis Pastrana of Regional Trial Court Branch 58 in this city, also confiscated 26 magazines for different firearms and more than 400 rounds of assorted ammunition from the house of Concha, according to Evasco.

Concha, who was identified as a rice trader and landlord in Tiaong, was brought to raiding unit’s headquarters in the town of Candelaria for further investigation.

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