MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine police teams have been deployed to arrest 18 suspects in a corruption scandal involving flood control projects that has sparked huge protests and forced implicated congressional leaders to step down. Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. disclosed the planned arrests on Friday. He has been scrambling to quell public outrage over the massive corruption, which has been blamed for substandard, defective or non-existent flood control projects in a poverty-stricken country, long prone to deadly typhoons, floodings and extreme weather in tropical Asia. The arrest warrants were issued by the Sandiganbayan anti-corruption court against Zaldy Co, who has resigned from the House of Representatives and has fled to an unspecified country, and 17 other co-accused.