Suspect in Mamasapano massacre arrested in Cotabato City
Credit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2019 09:29:06 +0000
ONE of the suspects behind the encounter in Mamasapano in Maguindanao that killed 44 elite policemen in 2015 was arrested by the Philippine National Police (PNP) in Cotabato City over the weekend, two years after a warrant was issued for his arrest.
The Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), led by the Cotabato City police, arrested Tamano Esmail Sabpa or Tamano Sabpa Esmael on Saturday at 2 p.m. at the parking area of a regional hospital in Cotabato City, a police report said.
Police said the apprehension of the suspect was carried out by virtue of an arrest warrant issued on January 25, 2017 by Judge Alandrex Betoya of Branch 15 of the Cotabato City Regional Trial Court.
The order stemmed from the massacre of 44 members of the Special Action Force (SAF) in Mamasapano in January 2015 by Muslim extremists while serving an arrest warrant against terrorist Zulkifli Abdhir in the same town.
Police said the case of Esmail was not recommended for bail and the arrest was also under the PNP’s nationwide “Oplan Pagtugis.”
Authorities also recovered an identification card. DEMPSEY REYES
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