Peace and Order

COTABATO CITY --- State agents shot dead Wednesday in Zamboanga City an Abu Sayyaf terrorist wanted for the abduction of more than 20 people, a number of them foreigners.

The slain Abu Sayyaf member, Arrassid Adjing Hallissam, was also tagged in the 2015 bombing of a bus terminal in Barangay Guiwan in Zamboanga City that killed two commuters and hurt 52 others.

Combined police and military operatives were to arrest Hallissam, also known as Guru Ara, in his hideout in Barangay San Roque in Zamboanga City at about 3:00 a.m. Tuesday, but killed him instead when he resisted.

KORONADAL CITY - Patay ang isang retired police officer matapos na siya ay pagbabarilin kaninang umaga sa likurang bahagi ng public market ng Koronadal.

Kinilala ni Koronadal PNP Chief Investigator Police Lieutenant Reynaldo Sotelo ang biktima na si ret. Master Sgt. Armondo Domingo, 59 na taong gulang, taga Purok Leganes, Barangay Zone 1.

Binaril ang biktima habang bumababa sa pampasaherong tricycle na sinakyan nito sa Zulueta St. Barangay Zone 1, malapit sa gate 4 ng palengke mga alas 11:00 kaninang umaga.

COTABATO CITY --- The National Bureau of Investigation cannot probe yet on the murder of Libungan Mayor Christopher Cuan and his driver Edwin Ihao due to big workload that need attention.

This was reported January 13 by the national newspaper Philippine Star, quoting Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra as saying.

The NBI, which is under the Department of Justice, is swamped with investigative work, according to Guevarra.

He said it is up for the Philippine National Police to look into the January 11 killing of Cuan and Ihao in Barangay Cabaruyan, Libungan.

KIDAPAWAN CITY - North Cotabato Gov. Nancy Catamco has condemned the murder of Mayor Christopher "Amping" Cuan and his driver Monday morning in Barangay Cabaruyan, Libungan, North Cotabato.

Cuan and his driver had just arrived at the construction site of a cockpit arena at about 11 a.m. when attacked by gunmen armed with highpowered rifles.  Cuan and his driver Edwin Ihao died on the spot.

Catamco has condemned “in the highest degree” the broad daylight and brutal killing of one of North Cotabato’s performing leaders.

COTABATO CITY ---- Authorities today dismissed as offshoot of a rido the fatal ambush on January 9 of a barangay chairman in Ungkaya Pukan town in Basilan and three others, reports from the island province said.

Rido is a generic term for clan war in most Southern Mindanao languages.

Bin Saudi Sarakil, chairman of Barangay Matata in Ungkaya Pukan, and three companions died on the spot from multiple bullet wounds.

MANILA – A key suspect in the kidnapping of three foreigners and a Filipina in Samal Island in 2015 was arrested in Manila on Thursday, Philippine National Police chief, Gen. Debold Sinas said.

Sinas said based on the reports from the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) chief, Maj. Gen. Vicente Danao Jr., Jehan Aklul alias Khalid Akhalul/Abu Khalid was arrested at 1:50 a.m. Thursday in a 5th floor rented unit on Carlos Palanca St., Brgy. 648, San Miguel, Manila.

LANAO DEL SUR --- Manhunt had been launched against gunmen who allegedly killed four wild pig hunters and set off improvised bomb in the forested area of Madalum, Lanao del Sur on Dec. 10, authorities here today said.

In separate statements Monday, the Lanao del Sur and Lanao del Norte provincial police offices identified the fatalities as Leo Baloro, 24, Nito Bacayan, 22, Lito Angcap, 22, and the 32-year-old Francis Alcaba, who died from severe blast injuries.

GENERAL SANTOS CITY – An alleged member of an Islamic State-inspired local terrorist group operating in South Cotabato province was killed in an anti-drug operation in Polomolok town on Thursday afternoon.

Lt. Col. Alex Joe Orcajada, chief of Polomolok municipal police station, identified the slain suspect Friday as Mohalidin Marot, reportedly a known drug pusher and part of a local cell of the Dawlah Islamiya-Socsargen Khatiba based in the area.

MAGUINDANAO --- Local residents are certain there is a deep-seated grudge between the municipal police force and the terrorists who attacked the town center of Datu Piang Thursday night.

Major Gen. Juvymax Uy, commander of the Army’s 6^th Infantry Division, said Saturday intelligence units of 6^th ID are now helping the police verify the veracity of information from Datu Piang residents purporting that the atrocity involved a group of terrorists whose relatives were arrested by local police personnel in recent law-enforcement operations.

COTABATO CITY - A man and his wife were arrested by police during law enforcement operation in Wao, Lanao del Sur, police said.

Brig. Gen. Samuel Rodriguez, BARMM police regional director, the Bangsamoro Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) identified the couple as Busran Ampatua Saripada, 64, and his wife, Monera Ampatua, 46 who both yielded 1,000 grams of shabu worth P6.8 million.