AGAIN? Police officers position themselves as they prepare to pounce on controversial smuggling and drug suspect Lynard Allan Bigcas inside an inn on Corrales Ave.-Ramonal St. yesterday morning for allegedly threatening a police officer with a pistol. He is then escorted down the stairs by Senior Insp. Maricris Mulat, and then brought to the Divisoria police station where he is detained. Police seized from Bigcas an unlicensed 9mm pistol. Bigcas has been linked to big-time car and motorcycle smuggling, linked to a shooting in Davao, and then arrested by narcotics agents here. (PHOTOS BY NITZ ARANCON)
Mulat said the pistol was found in Room 331 of the inn where Bigcas was staying.
Bigcas’s arrest came after a policeman from Jolo, PO1 Abdulwahid Abdullah, complained that the suspect pointed a gun at him.
Like Bigcas, Abdullah was a guest at the inn located near the corner of Corrales Ave. and Justo Ramonal St..
Bigcas, who ran for Bukidnon governor in 2013 and later, for Talakag mayor, was brought to the police station in Divisoria where he was placed under detention. Police said they were preparing charges against Bigcas.
It was not the first time for Bigcas to get into trouble because of gun possession.
In May 2011, the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) raided his houses here and in Talakag, Bukidnon, and seized high-powered firearms, eight allegedly expensive cars and motorcycles. One of the motorcycles was allegedly stolen from a famous Hollywood scriptwriter.
A Bukidnon court dismissed the illegal arms possession against Bigcas last year after he showed a license from Camp Crame. The court also rejected the seized vehicles as evidence because these were not in the search warrant issued against Bigcas.
Bigcas then hogged the headlines when he was linked to a shooting incident in Davao City.
In 2012, he was arrested by the Philippine Drugs Enforcement Agency (PDEA) here after they figured in a road accident in Macasandig. That led to the discovery of an Armalite rifle and suspected shabu in Bigcas’s car.
In a recent interview with reporters, Bigcas claimed to have mended his ways. He said he wanted to become a Born Again preacher. During his arrest yesterday, he wore a T-shirt with the Bible verse John 3:16 printed on it.
AGAIN? Police officers position themselves as they prepare to pounce on controversial smuggling and drug suspect Lynard Allan Bigcas inside an inn on Corrales Ave.-Ramonal St. yesterday morning for allegedly threatening a police officer with a pistol. He is then escorted down the stairs by Senior Insp. Maricris Mulat, and then brought to the Divisoria police station where he is detained. Police seized from Bigcas an unlicensed 9mm pistol. Bigcas has been linked to big-time car and motorcycle smuggling, linked to a shooting in Davao, and then arrested by narcotics agents here. (PHOTOS BY NITZ ARANCON)
Mulat said the pistol was found in Room 331 of the inn where Bigcas was staying.
Bigcas’s arrest came after a policeman from Jolo, PO1 Abdulwahid Abdullah, complained that the suspect pointed a gun at him.
Like Bigcas, Abdullah was a guest at the inn located near the corner of Corrales Ave. and Justo Ramonal St..
Bigcas, who ran for Bukidnon governor in 2013 and later, for Talakag mayor, was brought to the police station in Divisoria where he was placed under detention. Police said they were preparing charges against Bigcas.
It was not the first time for Bigcas to get into trouble because of gun possession.
In May 2011, the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) raided his houses here and in Talakag, Bukidnon, and seized high-powered firearms, eight allegedly expensive cars and motorcycles. One of the motorcycles was allegedly stolen from a famous Hollywood scriptwriter.
A Bukidnon court dismissed the illegal arms possession against Bigcas last year after he showed a license from Camp Crame. The court also rejected the seized vehicles as evidence because these were not in the search warrant issued against Bigcas.
Bigcas then hogged the headlines when he was linked to a shooting incident in Davao City.
In 2012, he was arrested by the Philippine Drugs Enforcement Agency (PDEA) here after they figured in a road accident in Macasandig. That led to the discovery of an Armalite rifle and suspected shabu in Bigcas’s car.
In a recent interview with reporters, Bigcas claimed to have mended his ways. He said he wanted to become a Born Again preacher. During his arrest yesterday, he wore a T-shirt with the Bible verse John 3:16 printed on it.
