NPD director Chief Superintendent Raul Gonzales identified the suspect as Dindo Viola, 30, of Kaunlaran Village, Dagat-Dagatan, Caloocan City.
PO2 Noel Falcatan, an NPD-District Mobile Force (DMF) operative, said he riding his motorcycle on Tanigue street on the way to the district office at around 6:45 a.m. when he spotted Viola carrying a sack, from which a butt of a long firearm was sticking out.
Falcatan stopped and inspected the sack being carried by Viola and found inside a homemade rifle that looked like an M-14. The magazine was loaded with a single bullet from a 12-gauge shotgun.
Also seized from the suspect were several steel pipes and an unfinished wooden casing for a rifle.
According to the suspect, he has been a technician for a security agency for the past nine years. His field of expertise was repairing firearms.
Viola said that a certain Henry of Dagat-Dagatan was the owner of the weapon, which he repaired for P700.
The suspect denied he was connected with any criminal group.
Superintendent Constante "Junboy" Azares, NPD-Deputy Director for Operations, ordered a background check on the suspect.