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Police are subjecting Banga, South Cotabato Mayor Albert Palencia to tactical interrogation.
This comes, after he was arrested in a raid conducted in his house in Barangay Punong Grande, Banga town by operatives of the PNP Regional Anti-Illegal Drugs Special Operations Task Force (RAIDSOTF) in Central Mindanao on Thursday.
The raiding team was looking for drugs, but instead found a grenade launcher and 4 pieces of ammunition for a .380-pistol.
Palencia's six luxury vehicles were also searched.
The mayor was brought to the headquarters of Police Provincial Office in Region 12 for investigation.
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Prior to the operation, Palencia was suspected of involvement in drug trafficking supposedly for over a long period of time.
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