(Eagle News) — The man who was seen confronting traffic enforcers who had only flagged him down for a traffic violation has been arrested but over what police said were unlicensed guns.
Arnold Padilla was nabbed on Friday, Aug. 24, after a police raid in his house and apartment unit in Magallanes Village, Makati City, yielded firearms and at least two grenades.
In a radio interview, National Capital Region Police Office Chief Guillermo Eleazar said Padilla was already the subject of a case build-up even before the video showing him, his live-in partner and bodyguards verbally and physically assaulting the traffic enforcers on Edsa on Aug. 13, went viral.
As police prepared to take him to Camp Bagong Diwa, Padilla’s blood pressure shot up.
Police had to bring him out of his residence in a stretcher.
Padilla is a primary suspect in the death of Yvonne Chua, his sister, on Dec. 29, 2010.
Chua died after hand grenades sent to her residence in Taguig exploded.
Her child was also wounded in the incident.
