Authorities said the wife of the slain Malaysian suspected to be an operative of the terror network Jema’ah Islamiyah, was transferred to a military camp on Friday after the police requested for a more secured facility for the detainee who is described as “high risk.” Senior Supt. Ronald de la Rosa, this city’s police chief, said Anabelle Nieva Lee, 40, was whisked off late Friday morning to Camp Panacan, the headquarters of the Eastern Mindanao Command in Barangay Panacan, 18 kilometers northeast of downtown Davao City.
Lee was earlier arraigned on illegal possession of firearms and explosives charges, to which she pleaded not guilty before the sala of Judge George E. Omello of Branch 14 of the Regional Trial Court here. Lee was taken under heavy police guard, including a Special Weapons and Tactics Unit detachment.
De la Rosa said Lee has been detained in a holding cell inside the Davao City police headquarters since December 14, when she and her husband were ejected from a local hotel here and engaged the police in an evening chase after the husband threatened to explode an improvised bomb. Police and intelligence agents cornered and shot dead Mohd Noor Fikrie Bin Abd Kahar, Lee’s husband, outside the People’s Park here. De la Rosa said it was Lee who carried the backpack that contained the improvised bomb made from from a rocket-propelled grenade, when the couple left their room at the Sampaguita Inn on Quirino Street here.
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