LOOSE FIREARMS. Brig. Gen. Franco Simborio, Police Regional Office - Zamboanga Peninsula (PRO-9) director (2nd from left) leads the turnover Friday (Jan. 14, 2022) of 863 loose firearms at Camp Gen. Eduardo Batalla in Zamboanga City. The loose firearms were either confiscated or surrendered by New People's Army rebels and other lawless elements in the region. (Photo courtesy of PRO-9) ZAMBOANGA CITY - The Police Regional Office-9 (PRO-9) has turned over Friday 863 loose firearms to the Regional Civil Security Unit-9 (RCSU-9) for safekeeping. Brig. Gen. Franco Simborio, PRO-9 director, led the turnover of the loose firearms around 10 a.m. to the RCSU-9 in Camp Gen. Eduardo Batalla here. Lt. Col. Garry Bahoy, RCSU-9 chief, received the loose firearms from Simborio in a simple ceremony. "These firearms are an accumulation from confiscation and surrender of firearms from communist rebels and other lawless elements and also a result of the OPLAN (Operation Plan) 'Katok,'&qu
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ZAMBOANGA CITY - Security forces have intercepted another shipment of smuggled cigarettes worth PHP590,000, bringing to more than PHP2.4 million the contrabands seized during the past two days in Region 9, authorities said Friday. Brig. Gen. Franco Simborio, Police Regional Office-Zamboanga Peninsula (PRO-9) director, said the latest batch of assorted smuggled cigarettes shipment was seized on midnight Thursday in Barangay Buenavista, this city. "Before the confiscation, troopers from the Army's 74th Infantry Battalion's Bravo Company were conducting a checkpoint in Barangay Curuan when a speeding vehicle passed by and did not stop," he said. The troops alerted their companions stationed at the detachment in Barangay Muti but the vehicle did not show up prompting the 74th IB troops to launch a search. Simborio said the vehicle along with its cargo was later found abandoned in nearby Barangay Buenavista, which is located between Curuan and Muti. The troops turned over