Italian Rolando del Torchio (Reuters)
A suspect in the kidnapping of Italian former priest Rolando del Torchio was arrested in Pagadian City Friday night while a suspected member of the Abu Sayyaf allegedly involved in the 2002 kidnapping of Jehovah’s Witnesses was captured in Zamboanga City Saturday morning, police said.
Inspector Ariel Yogyog, of the Zamboanga del Norte provincial highway patrol team said Amante Sagario y Bagain, 49, is the owner of record of the van used by the gunmen who seized Del Torchio from his pizzeria in Dipolog City Wednesday evening.
The vehicle was abandoned when the kidnappers fled with their victim in a speedboat.
Bagain has been handed over to the Dipolog police, Yogyog said.
In Zamboanga City, the alleged Abu Sayyf member, identified only as “Raji,” was nabbed around 10 a.m. by soldiers and police in a house on RT Lim Boulevard in Cawa-Cawa district, Inspector Dhalan Samuddin, acting public information officer of Police Regional Office 9, said.
He was the subject of a warrant of arrest issued by Presiding Judge Toribio Ilao Jr. of Pasig City Regional Trial Court Branch 266, where he is charged with six counts of kidnapping and serious illegal detention.
The Jehovah’s Witnesses were abducted while selling cosmetics in Patikul town, Sulu. Two of them were later beheaded after their families could not come up with the ransom, the rest were rescued after weeks of military operations.
Eighteen suspects were earlier arrested but were released in February 2013 for insufficiency of evidence.
http://www.interaksyon.com/article/118719/suspect-in-italian-ex-priests-kidnapping-arrested
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