TAYUG—The total gunban ordered last month by Governor Amado Espino Jr. yielded more results.

Four armed men, identified as bodyguards of Vice Mayor Janet Zaragoza, were arrested by the police while they were at the vicinity of the legislative building here at about 11:30 a.m. of Thursday.

Zaragoza was then working at the second floor of the legislative building.

The four were arrested by a team from the 10th Police Mobile Group led by Superintendent Tommy Cabigas and the Tayug Police led by Superintendent Roberto Vocal. They were Joven Bautista, Rogelio Alcaneses, Sammy Rimas and Carlo Itchon.

Policemen seized from the four Caliber .45pistols, all unlicensed.

Cabigas said the four could not present any document to prove legal ownership of the guns and permits authorizing them to carry the same outside of their residences.

Bautista and Alcaneses were identified as the ones who allegedly shot and wounded two bodyguards of Tayug Mayor Carlos Trese Mapili at the town plaza last month.

The victims in that shooting incident, Ruben Severino Jr. and Bimbo Clutario, are already out of the hospital. However, Clutario is now disabled and Severino is blind in one eye.

As a result of that shooting incident, Tayug remains under tight watch by the police.

Bautista and Alcaneses surfaced after hiding for sometime since no warrant of arrest was issued against them yet.

Concerned citizens called the 10th Police Mobile Group when they saw the four suspects acting suspiciously outside the town’s legislative building.

All four suspects are now in the custody of the 107th Police Mobile Group pending the filing of formal cases against them.—LM

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