Authorities arrest Abu Sayyaf member

From the Sun Star-Zamboanga (Apr 3): Authorities arrest Abu Sayyaf member

AUTHORITIES have arrested a member of the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) in the vicinity of a shopping mall in San Jose Gusu village, Zamboanga City, the police reported Sunday.

Chief Superintendent Miguel Antonio Jr., Zamboanga Peninsula (Western Mindanao) police director, identified the arrested ASG member as Aldimar Sangkula, alias Abu Paab, a resident of Sitio Kapuk in the village of Upper Calarian.

Antonio said Sangkula was arrested during a law enforcement operation around 10:15 a.m. Saturday near a shopping mall San Jose Gusu.

Antonio said Sangkula has a standing warrant of arrest for seven counts of kidnapping and serious illegal detention. The warrant was issued by a court in Isabela City.

Sangkula was taken to the headquarters of Police Station 11 of the Zamboanga City Police Office for proper disposition, Antonio added.

The arrest came a day after joint police and military operatives nabbed a convicted ASG member in an east coast village of the city.

Arrested on Friday, April 1, was Toh Ventura Abdilla, alias Toh Abdulla Abdulla, a resident of the village of Landang Laum, Sacol Island.

Abdilla was nabbed around during a law enforcement operation in Campung Landang Laun Drive in the village of Arena Blanco.

Antonio said Regional Trial Court Branch 12 Judge Gregorio Dela Peña last January 18 sentenced Abdilla in absentia for a period of four years and two months for illegal possession of firearm and ammunition.

The arresting team recovered from Abdilla’s possession several subversive documents, one fragmentation grenade and a motorboat propeller.

The arrest of Sangkula and Abdilla came after Antonio ordered the intensified campaign against the ASG and wanted persons in Zamboanga Peninsula.

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/zamboanga/local-news/2016/04/03/authorities-arrest-abu-sayyaf-member-465821