(KARAPATAN / MANILA BULLETIN)
Elements of the Criminal Investigation and Detention Group (CIDG) arrested Dennise Velasco at about 3 a.m. for illegal possession of firearms and explosives when police served the search warrant in his house in Lagro, Quezon City.
Quezon City Executive Judge Cecilyn Burgos-Villavert issued the warrant to allow the police to search the house of Velasco. She is the same judge who issued search warrants that yielded the arrests of other activists in Bacolod and Manila last year.
Various groups confirmed the arrest of Velasco but claimed he was arrested on fake evidence because the guns and explosives seized from him were all planted.