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Five more people were arrested for alleged possession of bullets at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) since Wed morning, Nov 25 up to the early hours of Thu, Nov 26.
The following people were arrested:
1. Dicson Flores Casco of Penablanca, Cagayan, arrested at 9am
2. Ernesto Fernandez of Sultan Kudarat, arrested at around 3pm
3. Thelma Melchor Paragas of Binalay, Pangasinan, arrested at 4pm
4. Rosalie Santiago Bulanadi of Gabaldon, Nueva Ecija, arrested at midnight.
5. Yueqiang Xu of China, arrested at 2:30am
Passengers No. 1 to No 4 were released with the help of the Public Attorney’s Office (PAO).
“According to PAO, one out of the four denied owning the bullet and may have been victimized by the so-called “tanim-bala” modus. The three others admitted using the bullets as amulets. So far, the PAO has already handled 45 cases of alleged bullets possession in NAIA,” reports Zen Hernandez on ABS-CBNnews.com.
Passenger No. 5 was nabbed when the Aviation Security Group said a caliber .38 bullet was detected inside his black backpack at the initial X-ray checkpoint of Terminal 1.
However, as the report indicated, “ballistics test result showed the bullet is not live and unfired, thus no cases were filed him.”
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