A government employee was arrested for alleged illegal recruitment, and a member of the Bureau of Fire and Protection for illegal discharge of firearms in Silay City, Negros Occidental, Wednesday, police records show.

Delia Acerada, an employee of the Silay City Water District, was arrested by a police team led by Supt. Roderick Alba in an entrapment operation at the city public market, for violations of RA 8042, or illegal recruitment, and RA 9208 or anti-trafficking of persons.

Alba said Acerada has not been licensed by the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration to recruit workers for overseas employment.

Complainants Tyron Roco, Julius Ninoy, Gil Jivera and Jamiesten Ninoy had claimed that Acerada had been collecting a large sum of money from them from October last year up to January this year, in exchange for employment and travel abroad.

Alba said they have discovered that similar complaints have also been made against Acerada from persons she had recruited in Bacolod City.

Acerada, in an interview with ABS-CBN, however, denied having engaged in illegal recruitment.

Recovered from her were 10 pieces of P100 bills used as marked money in the entrapment operation.

On the same day, troopers of the 6th Regional Mobile Group also arrested Fire Officer 1 Jose Emilio Peralta in Hacienda Purisima Concepcion, Brgy. E. Lopez, Silay City, for illegal discharge of firearms.

Citing complaints of hacienda residents, Alba said Peralta reportedly fired his gun on April 8 and 9 at the compound of Torebio Cabugnasong in the hacienda.

Troopers of the 6th RMG arrested and disarmed Peralta of his .45 caliber pistol, while he was drinking with a companion in the hacienda.

Also recovered from him were two magazines of a.45 pistol caliber with 15 rounds of live ammunition and three spent shells.

Acerada and Peralta are separately locked up in jail of the Silay City Police Station, pending the filing of charges against them.*GPB

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