North Cotabato mayor nabbed for guns

COTABATO CITY: A day after the killing of Maguindanao Mayor Samsudin Dimaukom in Makilala, North Cotabato on Friday, the mayor of Libungan town was arrested in anti-drug operations with a cache of firearms and ammunition before dawn on Saturday.

Mayor Christopher Amping Cuan of Libungan, also of North Cotabato, was arrested on the strength of search warrants issued by Judge Alandrex Betoya of Regional Trial Court Branch 16 for illegal posses

Region- 12 spokesman said the raiding team recovered from one of Cuan’s houses an M-16 Armalite rifle, a 12- gauge shotgun, two and hundreds of ammunition and

- gional Anti-Illegal Drug Special Op Drug Enforcement Agency served Saturday in three of Cuan’s houses

Unlike Dimaukom, Cuan was not among the politicians named announcement of the names of so

spokesman, Cuan will be committed to the RTC Branch 16 that issued

On Friday, Mayor Dimaukom of Datu Saudi Ampatuan, Maguindanao and nine of his companions drug operation at Barangay Old

The group was on board two ve- hicles and a police car escort when Region 12 anti-illegal drugs group

that Dimaukom’s group was going to transport huge stocks of drugs from Davao to Maguindanao and Cotabato City but only 13 sachets

Dimaukom and his wife, Bai Anida “Nhedz” Dimaukom were earlier tagged by the president as among the country's narco-politicians; no charges

The Dimaukoms, however, have One of their houses in Datu Saudi Ampatuan was subsequently searched but law enforcers found

A source close to the Dimukoms told TheManilaTimes that the widow, also the vice mayor of Datu Saudi Ampatuan town, who is still in mourning, refused to issue any

All slain suspects were buried on Friday in accordance with