Fake AFP ID maker, smut film vendors busted
BACOLOD CITY -- Violation of Article 172 of the Revised Penal Code was charged yesterday at the City Prosecutor’s Office against Johnrey Lim, 26, of Brgy. Bata, Bacolod after he was caught producing fake ID’s of Armed Forces of the Philippines.
Article 172 of the RPC provides penalties for “falsification by private individual and use of falsified documents.”
Senior Insp. Luisito Acebuche, Police Station 1 commander, said Lim was nabbed at a mall, at about 6 p.m. Tuesday, by members of Police Station 1, the Bacolod police Intelligence and Investigation Branch, the Military Intelligence Battalion, and the Army Reserve Command.
The suspect is the proprietor of Fun Shirt printing shop located at the 888 Chinatown Square at Gatuslao Street, Bacolod.
Through an entrapment operation, the AFP members had pretended to order duplicates of their ID’s from Lim after hearing reports that he had been producing forged ID’s for police officers and soldiers.
In an interview, Lim strongly denied the allegations, saying that the transaction made by the soldiers was the first time.
“I only produce IDs for commercial offices and security agencies,” he added.
The operatives confiscated from him nine AFP reservists IDs, seven fake AFP regular members ID’s and computer unit used in his business.
Meanwhile in Victorias City, police operatives from Negros Occidental Provincial Police Office Special Operations Task Force arrested three persons engaging in the sale of pornographic materials.
They were identified as Armia Salac, 19, Sadam Sidic, 18 and Pinky Geroche, 21, of this city. They would be charged for violating Article 201 of the Revised Penal Code.
Through a buy-bust operation a DVD tape containing pornographic movies was received by the operatives in exchange for a P50 bill with Serial Number CE871286 used as marked money.
Recovered from the suspect were DVDs suspected to also contain pornographic and lewd films, one Konka television set, two cellular phones, P400, one DVD player and P1,071.75 in cash believed to be proceeds of their unlawful activities.