PNP investigating cop selling guns

April 22, 2020

The Philippine National Police- Integrity Monitoring and Enforcement Group (PNP-IMEG) is investigating a policeman allegedly involved in gun trafficking after two were arrested with a Uzi machine pistol and a firearm in Sta. Cruz, Manila last Monday.

Police Brigadier General Ronald Lee, IMEG director, said the rogue cop was tagged by the two suspects as an alleged protector and source of illegal firearms.

 “We are still conducting follow-up investigation on an active police personnel who has been tagged as the alleged protector of the firearm traffickers and also the source of the illegal guns they have been selling,” Lee said.

The name of the rogue policeman was temporarily withheld pending investigation aimed at filing criminal and administrative charges against him.

Lee said the operation was conducted inside a convenience store in Tayuman Street, corner Ipil Street in Sta. Cruz around 4:40 pm which resulted in the arrest of Reynaldo David,30; and Juanito Peleo,52, both residents of Katamanan Street in Barangay 232 in Tondo.

Recovered from the duo were one Uzi 9mm machine pistol fitted with a silencer and with a magazine containing two bullets, a 9mm revolver with three live ammunition and the marked money paid to them by an undercover officer.

Lee said the suspects were  monitored to be engaged in the selling of illegal weapons in different parts of Manila and Caloocan cities.

Both suspects are being held at the PNP-IMEG lock-up facility in Camp Crame facing charges for violation of the Comprehensive Firearms and Ammunition Regulations Act of 2013.  Ella Dionisio/DMS