Explosives seized from Navy officer

Government intelligence operatives seized an undetermined amount of C-4 explosives from the locker of a naval officer formerly associated with the defunct Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Task Force (PAOCTF) in Sangley Point, Cavite on Friday.

The seizure came in the wake of rumors of coup reportedly hatched by a group of disgruntled members of the military and police.

But a ranking intelligence police officer, who refused to be named, dismissed the seizure of the C-4 explosives from the locker of a certain Maj. Miraflores, as nothing but routine inventory to account for ordnance supplies of the Navy.

He also refused to divulge other details on the so-called ordnance inventory, nor say if Miraflores was arrested or placed under restriction.

Miraflores used to head the Navy’s elite Special Warfare Group (SWAG) whose unit was attached to the defunct (PAOCTF) then headed by then PNP chief and now Sen. Panfilo Lacson. — Jaime Laude