2 security guards nabbed for sale of loose firearms | Inquirer News

2 security guards nabbed for sale of loose firearms

/ 10:42 PM March 30, 2012

Agents of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) have arrested two security guards believed to be members of a gunrunning syndicate which supply robbery groups with firearms and ammunition.

NBI officer-in-charge and lawyer Nonnatus Caesar Rojas identified the two as Minsuari Langcap Orogan, 34; and Salic Macadato Langco, 39; both residents of North Fairview in Quezon City.

Following their arrest in an entrapment operation on March 27, they were charged before Quezon City Assistant Prosecutor Diovie Macaraig-Calderon with illegal possession and the manufacture or sale of firearms and ammunition.

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Rojas said the two were believed to be members of a group which calls itself the “Guardian.”

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Before their arrest, Orogan and Langco were contacted by NBI Counter Intelligence Division agents who pretended to be interested in buying two firearms and ammunition from the group.

After the transaction was completed on March 2 and 15, the NBI agents ordered more firearms, leading to another meeting on March 27 which resulted in the two men’s arrest in Barangay Samasapi, North Fairview, Quezon City.

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Rojas said that the group got its supply of firearms and ammunition from a Cebu-based person identified only as “Supremo” who ships the items to Manila.

The guns, he added, are sold from P15,000 to P29,000 each, depending on the type  of firearm. Members of the gunrunning syndicate earn as much as P1,500 to P3,500 in commissions when they make a sale, he said.

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