DUMAGUETE CITY, March 28 -- Operatives of the Philippine National Police-Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (PNP-CIDG) have seized an assault rifle with a sniper scope, three magazines, and thousands of ammunition rounds in the premises of a sugar mill in Sta. Catalina town, Negros Oriental province.

The items were recovered at another area of the sugar mill on Monday evening, during the fourth day of the continuous implementation of a search warrant at the HDJ Bayawan Agri-venture Corp. at Sitio Tolong, Barangay Caranoche in Sta. Catalina, a report from the Joint Task Force Negros said.

The series of raids, which started on Friday, was carried out by virtue of a search warrant for violations of Republic Act 10591 or the Compreh...