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PAGADIAN CITY,
Zamboanga del Sur, Nov. 17 (PNA) –- Combined police and military operatives
have captured a wounded member of a kidnap-for-ransom-group (KFRG) following a
shootout in the nearby province of Zamboanga Sibugay, a top police official
announced Monday.
Zamboanga Sibugay
police director Senior Supt. Robert Roy Bahian identified the captured KFRG
member as Honrato Encabo alias Jojo, who was wounded when he shot it out with
the lawmen.
Bahian said Encabo
was admitted and guarded at a hospital in Ipil, the capital town of Zamboanga
Sibugay.
A caliber .45 pistol
with ammunition was seized from Encabo's possession.
Bahian said the joint
police and military operatives, armed with warrants of arrest, swooped down the
hideout of Encabo around 9 p.m. Saturday at Sitio Dapdap, Barangay Kawayan,
Alicia.
Bahian said Encabo
opened fire upon seeing the arriving troops, who were on a law enforcement
operation, purposely to serve the warrants of arrest issued against the
suspect.
He said Encabo is
charged for the crimes of kidnapping with serious illegal detention and robbery
before a Court in Imelda municipality, Zamboanga Sibugay. Corresponding
warrants of arrest were issued for his arrest.
He said respondent of
the two criminal cases, Encabo is a member of Reme Sabtal Criminal Gang,
formerly known as Mamay Aburi Group, whose criminal activities are primarily
kidnapping, extortion and highway robbery. (PNA)
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