Jeepney driver slain, 3 others arrested at start of gun ban

By NITZ ARANCON
and BEN SERRANO
Correspondents

A PUBLIC jeepney driver was gunned dead in Misamis Oriental while three others were arrested in Cagayan de Oro and Butuan cities at the start of the gun ban implemented by the Commission of Elections (Comelec).

Police said 23-year old Sixpers Anobling of El Salvador city was shot dead by a still unidentified person at Vamenta Subdivision in Opol, Misamis Oriental at around 6:30 pm on Sunday.

Dr. West Edquila,  medico legal officer of the Scene of the Crime Operatives, said Anobling was shot to the head with a caliber .45 pistol.

Police said they suspected the killing was drugelated, pointing out that they found suspected shabu,  and a caliber .38 revolver, among others, near the victim’s body.

Meanwhile, police arrested 20-year old Junrey Acusar of JR Borja Extension, this city, for violation of the gun ban.

The gun ban will be in effect during the election period from Jan. 10 to June 8.

Chief Insp. Alfredo Ortiz, Con police chief, said Acusar showed police no permit for the caliber .38 revolver at a checkpoint on JR Borja Extension at dawn on Sunday.

Ortiz said Acusar ran off but police chased and subsequently caught him.

In Butuan City, authorities caught two men and seized three guns and ammunition, knives at a checkpoint at around  2 am of on Sunday or two hours after the gun ban took effect.

Police arrested Julius Ensencio Labor, 39, and Dondon delos Reyes, 35, at a checkpoint in Butuan. The suspects are both from Talacogon, Agusan del Sur.

Police said the suspects were in a black Mitsubishi Strada pick-up truck with license plates LMT 360 when law enforcers asked them to stop for inspection. Inside the vehicle, police allegedly found .9mm caliber pistols and a caliber .45 pistol, hunting knives, assorted ammunition, three black sling bags, and P10 thousand in cash.