Gov't agents arrest couple for selling fake NBI IDs, documents

A couple posing as government agents were arrested in Quezon City on Thursday by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) for selling fake NBI identification cards and other pertinent documents.

Suspects Solomon Viloria and Shirley Viloria were presented in a press conference on Friday where the NBI also showed the counterfeit items such as NBI ID, mission order, and permit to possess and carry firearms seized from the couple.

The NBI found out that Solomon Viloria is an employee of the Office of Civil Defense, an agency under the Department of National Defense.

NBI agents have arrested in entrapment operation a couple selling fake NBI IDs, other documents such as permit to carry firearm. @gmanews pic.twitter.com/RTmt0C8ehc

— Virgil Lopez (@virgillopez) March 3, 2017

According to the NBI, Solomon Viloria is the subject of an intelligence report engaged in illegally scanning, manufacturing and printing the NBI documents and other items, and these items through recruitment into an alleged NBI Civilian Agent which he supposedly leads himself.

He allegedly claimed to be an NBI agent assigned to the NBI Counter Terrrorism Division.

Before the entrapment operation, the undercover CTD operatives and Solomon Viloria agreed to meet at a restaurant in Quezon City where the suspect offered to sell a .45 cal pistol for P35,000 and boasted that he will include the NBI ID, badge, mission order and permit to possess and carry firearm for P45,000.

After agreeing to the sale of firearm and other NBI documents, both parties then met at a gas station in Mindanao Avenue, Quezon City.

During the entrapment, the couple were caught in the act of selling the firearm, fake NBI IDs and other documents for P10,000 to P15,000 to undercover agents of the NBI.

Complaints for illegal possession of firearms, usurpation of authority, falsification of public documents and illegal use of uniform or insignia are now being readied against the suspects.

The complaints will be filed before the Quezon City Prosecutor's Office. —KBK, GMA News