CAMP OLIVAS, Pampanga, Philippines — Police in Cabiao, Nueva Ecija ended last Wednesday the operation of a gang circulating P1,000 and P200 bills in Central Luzon and Metro Manila, the Police Regional Office 3 (PRO3) reported Friday.

Chief Superintendent Edgardo T. Ladao, PRO3 director, said four suspects allegedly running the operation were arrested after yielding 16 fake P1,000 bills, 14 bogus P200 bills, suspected drugs and a.22-caliber Black Widow Magnum revolver.

Ladao identified the alleged gang members as Ricardo M. Rodriguez, 41; Bernard R. Rodriguez, 22; Michael M. Castillo, 24; and Cherry O. Carreon, 22. All of them are residents of Lower Bicutan, Taguig City, Metro Manila.

Cabiao police on mobile patrol responded to flash alarm at 8:40 a.m. to proceed to the MS Galang Gas Station in Barangay San Juan North, where the suspects allegedly tried to pass off a fake P1,000.

The suspects were arrested after their truck was cornered by Mobile Patrol officers at the end of a chase from the said barangay to the Gapan-Olongapo Road in Barangay San Roque.

As the suspects were frisked, they yielded the fake bills, the gun and two sachets of a crystalline substance believed to be metamphetamine hydrochloride or “shabu.”