Wanted Dawlah bombmaker arrested in Sultan Kudarat – BusinessWorld Online
COTABATO CITY — Police intelligence agents arrested a known bombmaker in the Dawlah Islamiya, wanted for high-profile criminal cases pending in different courts, in an anti-terror operation in Barangay Ligao in Palimbang, Sultan Kudarat on Wednesday.
Local officials and members of two erstwhile secessionist Moro groups, who supported the law-enforcement operation of the Police Regional Office-12 (PRO-12), said on Thursday, the now-detained bombmaker is well-versed in fabrication of improvised explosive devices using either ammonium nitrate or potassium chlorate as blasting charges.
Brig. Gen. Arnold P. Ardiente, PRO-12 director, told reporters that the suspect was cornered by operatives from their Regional Intelligence Division and other PRO-12 units before dawn on Wednesday.
Mr. Ardiente said the suspect is wanted for multiple murders, multiple frustrated murders, destructive arsons and violations of the Republic Act No. 11479, or the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020.
Local officials said the bombmaker yielded peacefully when policemen barged into his hideout and showed him warrants for his arrest from different courts.
Mr. Ardiente said the raiding team had confiscated from him an improvised explosive device rigged with a blasting mechanism that can be detonated from a distance using a mobile phone. — John Felix M. Unson
