ANOTHER ARREST ORDER. Police officers serve another warrant of arrest against Sulu-based Abu Sayyaf Group sub-leader Ben Ahaddi Quirino (right) at the Sulu provincial jail on Monday (Aug. 22, 2022). Quirino has been detained at the provincial jail after he and his brother, Almujer Yadah, surrendered to the authorities in June. (Photo courtesy of CIDG-9)
ZAMBOANGA CITY – A Sulu-based leader of the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) detained at the provincial jail for multiple cases of kidnapping, murder, and frustrated murder received another warrant for similar criminal offenses, a top police official said Tuesday.
Col. John Francis Encinareal, chief of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) 9 (Zamboanga Peninsula), said the warrant issued against Sulu-based ASG sub-leader Ben Ahaddi Quirino, 41, was for double murder and frustrated murder.
Police served the arrest warrant against Quirino at the provincial jail of Sulu in Capitol Site, Barangay Bangkal, Patikul, Sulu on Monday afternoon.
Encinareal said the additional arrest order was issued by a court in Jolo in 2018.
Quirino was detained at the Sulu provincial jail along with his brother, Almujer Yadah, 55, after they surrendered to the Joint Task Force – Sulu in June.
He was involved in a series of kidnappings of both foreigners and Filipinos, and atrocities against government forces in Sulu, Encinareal said.
The brothers had been tagged as responsible for the killing of two Canadian hostages in 2016 after a huge ransom demand was not paid.
The ASG bandits seized the two Canadian hostages from an upscale resort on Samal Island, Davao del Norte in 2015 and took them to the hinterlands of Sulu. (PNA)
