DIPOLOG CITY: Police arrested a kagawad
from Sirawai for yielding bomb-making materials at a checkpoint in Siocon, last
Sunday.
Siocon PNP chief S/Insp. Malahal
Jauhali Said identified the arrested suspect as Bassal Sabdani Turabin, 50, a
village councilor of Lagundi, Sirawai.
According to Said, police
operatives manning the checkpoint flagged down Turabin, who was driving an
unlicensed motorcycle, along the highway in Barangay A.L Micubo.
Turabin yielded 10 pieces of cut
red detonating cord, 30 pieces of blasting caps—all materials for dynamite and bomb
making.
Charges are being prepared against Turabin,
who owned to the said materials confiscated from him.