Abu Sayyaf bandit involved in 2002 kidnapping nabbed in Zamboanga City

From the Philippine News Agency (May 5): Abu Sayyaf bandit involved in 2002 kidnapping nabbed in Zamboanga City

Combined police and military operatives arrested an alleged Abu Sayyaf bandit involved in the kidnapping of six members of the Jehovah’s Witness in 2002 in the province of Sulu, an official announced Monday.

Police Regional Office-9 (PRO-9) Spokesman Senior Insp. Joseph Ortega has identified the arrested Abu Sayyaf bandit as a certain Abu Ondil.

Ortega said Ondil was arrested around 5:00 p.m. Sunday along the highway in front of Acapulco Beach Resort in Barangay Sinunuc, west of this city.

Ortega said that Ondil was involved in the kidnapping of six members--two males and four females-- of the Jehovah’s Witness in August of 2002 in Sulu.

The victims were on a door-to-door sale of cosmetic products in the municipality of Patikul at that time when they were seized by the Abu Sayyaf bandits.

The bandits beheaded the male victims a day after they were seized while the other four were released several months later.

Ortega said that Ondil has standing warrants of arrest for six counts of kidnapping and serious illegal detention issued by a Pasig City Court.

He said the suspect was taken to the Regional Intelligence Unit-9 at Camp Batalla, in this city for documentation and proper disposition.

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