SUSPECTED TERRORIST. Jimmy Marababol, a native of Labason, Zamboanga del Norte, poses for a police mugshot after his arrest in Tinago, Cebu City on Tuesday (Feb. 4, 2020). Police Regional Office-7 chief Brig. Gen. Valeriano de Leon said Marababol is a suspected member of the Jemaah Islamiyah extremist group. (Photo courtesy of PRO-7)
CEBU CITY – A suspected member of the Jemaah Islamiyah who allegedly helped in the abduction of a son of a mayor in Zamboanga del Norte in September 2017 was nabbed during a sting operation of the Police Regional Office (PRO) in Cebu on Tuesday.
Brig. Gen. Valeriano de Leon, chief of PRO-7, said the intelligence operatives arrested Jimmy Igpit Marababol, a native of Labason, Zamboanga del Norte in Barangay Tinago, this city.
Marababol was arrested by virtue of a warrant of arrest issued by the Regional Trial Court in Zamboanga del Norte, after more than year of engaging himself in a rice trading business here, de Leon said.
The alleged member of the extremist group was pinpointed as among the six suspects who abducted Jade Quimbo, son of Labason Mayor Eddie Quimbo in Labason Proper.
De Leon said Marababol fled to Cebu and engaged in a legitimate business after his leader, Indang Susukan, a key sub-commander of the Abu Sayyaf group, was killed in a military offensive in Patikul, Sulu in February last year.
“In our investigation, he is here after he escaped from Zamboanga del Norte after the death of Black Moro. He’s been here as he felt that no one knows his identity as member of the Abu Sayyaf,” he said.
Marababol was reportedly an Indonesian extremist who had led a faction of the Abu Sayyaf group in its terroristic activities in Mindanao.
Lt. Col. Arturo Brual Jr., acting chief of the Regional Intelligence Unit-7, said the arrest warrant issued by the Zamboanga del Norte court includes the name of Susukan.
He said Marababol was able to establish residence in a village in Mandaue City while engaging in rice business near a coastal barangay in this city’s north district.
De Leon said the police are still investigating to identify the business associates of Marababol and to determine if their transactions in Cebu are used to raise funds for their future terroristic activities.
He, however, praised the intelligence community for the arrest of the alleged terrorist group member.
“We would like to inform the people of Central Visayas that everything is under control. We are safe in the region. We still believe that everything that we have achieved and this kind of positive action are because of the coordination of the intel community,” de Leon said.
He said they will return the warrant to the Zamboanga del Norte court so the judge could order the detention of Marababol while his case of kidnapping and serious illegal detention is being heard.
https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1092919
Brig. Gen. Valeriano de Leon, chief of PRO-7, said the intelligence operatives arrested Jimmy Igpit Marababol, a native of Labason, Zamboanga del Norte in Barangay Tinago, this city.
Marababol was arrested by virtue of a warrant of arrest issued by the Regional Trial Court in Zamboanga del Norte, after more than year of engaging himself in a rice trading business here, de Leon said.
The alleged member of the extremist group was pinpointed as among the six suspects who abducted Jade Quimbo, son of Labason Mayor Eddie Quimbo in Labason Proper.
De Leon said Marababol fled to Cebu and engaged in a legitimate business after his leader, Indang Susukan, a key sub-commander of the Abu Sayyaf group, was killed in a military offensive in Patikul, Sulu in February last year.
“In our investigation, he is here after he escaped from Zamboanga del Norte after the death of Black Moro. He’s been here as he felt that no one knows his identity as member of the Abu Sayyaf,” he said.
Marababol was reportedly an Indonesian extremist who had led a faction of the Abu Sayyaf group in its terroristic activities in Mindanao.
Lt. Col. Arturo Brual Jr., acting chief of the Regional Intelligence Unit-7, said the arrest warrant issued by the Zamboanga del Norte court includes the name of Susukan.
He said Marababol was able to establish residence in a village in Mandaue City while engaging in rice business near a coastal barangay in this city’s north district.
De Leon said the police are still investigating to identify the business associates of Marababol and to determine if their transactions in Cebu are used to raise funds for their future terroristic activities.
He, however, praised the intelligence community for the arrest of the alleged terrorist group member.
“We would like to inform the people of Central Visayas that everything is under control. We are safe in the region. We still believe that everything that we have achieved and this kind of positive action are because of the coordination of the intel community,” de Leon said.
He said they will return the warrant to the Zamboanga del Norte court so the judge could order the detention of Marababol while his case of kidnapping and serious illegal detention is being heard.
https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1092919
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