Policemen manning a checkpoint on the border of Maguindanao and South Cotabato have foiled an attempt by two men on a motorbike to sneak in a firearm and shabu in the province on Sunday afternoon.
In an interview Monday, Lt. Ramillo Serame, police chief of Mangudadatu town in Maguindanao, said police officers manning a Commission on Elections (Comelec) checkpoint in Barangay Poblacion, near the border with South Cotabato, were alerted when two men on a motorbike stopped a few meters away around 4 p.m.
Serame said the men were to proceed to Mangudadatu from Tantangan, South Cotabato but backed off after seeing strict police inspection at the checkpoint.
“They threw a paper bag beside the road,” Serame said in a spot report shared to reporters here.
“Thereafter, the men fled using the same motorbike back to South Cotabato,” he added.
When checked by police personnel, he said the paper bag contained an Uzi machine pistol, a magazine, and two sachets of shabu.
Serame believed the two belonged to an organized crime group involved in various offenses in the town and nearby communities.
Serame vowed to intensify the implementation of Simultaneous Anti-Criminality Law Enforcement Operations in Mangudadatu following the attempt.
Source: Philippines News Agency
