Joint operatives arrested an alleged member of a local terrorist group in an operation in an outskirt village at Polomolok town, South Cotabato province Wednesday night.
In its report on Friday to Police Regional Office 12(Soccsksargen), Police Brig. Gen. Eliseo Tam Rasco, the Polomolok municipal police said suspect Aladin Mamo, 23, was nabbed in a raid in Purok 4 of Sitio Bio, Barangay Lapu at about 8:05 p.m.
Polomolok police chief, Lt. Col. Samuel Cadungon, said the suspect was a member of the Sarangani-based terror group Ansar Al-Khilafa Philippines (AKP) and was involved in a string of attacks in the area these past years.
"He was among the remnants of the group who were based in Polomolok," he said.
Cadungon said the operation mainly targeted Mamo's brother Rassel, who has a standing warrant of arrest for robbery with violence and intimidation against person issued by the Regional Trial Court Branch 63 in Polomolok.
The operating team was composed of elements of Regional Intelligence Division 12, Military Intelligence Group 23, Army's 27th Infantry Battalion, and Polomolok municipal police.
Rassel, who was also tagged as a member of the AKP, managed to escape as the operatives were approaching the area.
Cadungon said Aladin, who was later cornered by the team, was caught in possession of a hand grenade.
He added that the suspect, who is currently detained at the Polomolok municipal police lockup, will be charged with violation of Republic Act 9516, the Illegal Possession of Ammunition and Explosives law, before the provincial prosecutor's office.
The AKP, which was part of the local network of the Islamic State-inspired Maute Group and among the top threat groups being monitored by the PRO-12, had been tagged as behind several bombing incidents here and in Sarangani province.
Cadungon said the Mamo brothers were under the command of fugitive AKP leader Jeffrey Nilong, who was among those charged over the bomb attack in front of a lying-in clinic here in September last year.
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