Police arrest alleged Abu Sayyaf member in Quezon City

December 16, 2017

A suspected Abu Sayyaf rebel wanted for murder for 11 years in Basilan was arrested in Quezon City, police said Saturday.

Abdulmuin Yahiya, 35, was arrested by police and military intelligence team around 10 a.m. along AD Basilan street  inside Salaam Compound in Barangay Culiat.

Chief Superintendent Guillermo Lorenzo Eleazar, Quezon City Police District director, said teams from the District Special Operations Unit, Naval Intelligence and Security Force and National Intelligence Coordinating Agency served an arrest warrant against Yahiya.

The warrant has four counts of murder and issued August 2006 by the Isabela City Regional Trial Court Branch 1 based in Basilan.

Eleazar said during interrogation, Yahiya admitted he is a member of the Abu Sayyaf and Hadji Taufik is his cousin.

Eleazar said that during tactical interrogation, Yahiya admitted he is a member of the Abu Sayyaf and that Hadji Taufik is his cousin. Taufik, allegedly an Abu Sayyaf member, is wanted for nine counts of murder and four counts of frustrated murder.

Authorities spotted Yahiya along Tandang Sora Avenue. They followed Yahiya and apprehended him inside his home.

Police said Yahiya is working as a tricycle driver.  “He has been hiding here to avoid the pending cases against him,” Eleazar said. DMS