Arrest warrant issued to Davao bombing suspects

From the Sun Star-Davao (Jan 18): Arrest warrant issued to Davao bombing suspects

  

MANILA. Three suspected terrorists allegedly responsible for the Davao City night market bombing last September 2 were presented to the media on Friday, October 7, in Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon City. (Al Padilla)
THE Davao Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 54 Judge Melinda Alconcel-Dayanghirang issued a warrant of arrest against the accused of the Roxas Night Market bombing for their terrorism case last January 9.

 

 Included in the arrest warrant were the 14 indicted persons namely Abubakar Zulkifli, TJ Tagadaya Macabalang, Wendel Facturan, Musali Mustapha, Datu Masla Sema, Abu Hadid Dilangalen, Jessy Vincent Original, Zack Haron Lopez, Pendatum Coy Mahurom, one alias Cocoy, Abu Calid, Abu Solaiman, Jackson Usi and Ausa Mamasapano.

 

  Three of the arrested are detained in Manila while the other three are detained in Davao City.

 

Macabalang, the alleged triggerman who made a phone call that detonated the improvised explosive device; Facturan, the alleged bomb courier who sat on the chair and the one who placed the backpack containing the IED in the market; and Mustapha, who took the video of the incident, were presented by Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana last October 8, 2016.

 

Meanwhile, Zach Haron Villanueva Lopez, Jackson Mangulamas Usi, and Ausan Abdullah Mamasapano were recently transferred to the Maa City Jail.

 

 The staff of the RTC 54, in an interview with SunStar Davao Wednesday, January 18, said that Judge Dayanghirang will only set an arraignment to hear the terrorism case filed against the respondents once all the accused are arrested.

 

Zulkifli, Sema, Dilangalen, Original, Mahurom, alias Cocoy, Calid, Solaiman are still at large.

 

Based on reports, President Rodrigo Duterte last Saturday confirmed that Sema or Datu Mohammad Abduljabbar Sema, 26, was arrested on November 24, 2016 at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport upon his arrival from Bangkok aboard Air Asia flight AK 891.

 

Sema, a village chief of Barangay Rosary Heights 7 in Cotabato City, is the son of Muslimin Sema, chairman of the largest faction of the MNLF and Maguindanao Representative Bai Sandra Sema. Muslimin Sema is a former Cotabato mayor and is being considered for membership in the Bangsamoro Transition Council (BTC).

 

The legal counsel of Sema, Jose Aguila Grapilon, recently filed a motion for determination of probable cause on the indictment of his client for murder and frustrated murder charges filed against Sema before presiding Judge Lope Callo of RTC Branch 33 in connection of the Roxas night market bombing.

 

Judge Callo ordered the issuance of subpoena for the two accused, Jackson Usi, and Ausa Mamasapano who issued an extrajudicial confession tagging Sema in the case.

 

 Based on the extrajudicial confession of both, Sema allegedly suggested that the bomb will be used in Davao City. Callo ordered that the subpoena be issued to the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group for the appearance of Usi and Mamasapano in the next hearing set on February 3, 2017.

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/davao/local-news/2017/01/18/arrest-warrant-issued-davao-bombing-suspects-520893