A police counter-terrorist team and elements of the Special Action Force arrested a suspected member of the bandit group Abu Sayyaf who has a P150,000-bounty on his head as the man was disembarking from a ferry in the vicinity of Zamboanga City port Friday morning.Chief Superintendent Jaime Caringal, regional police chief for Zamboanga, identified the suspect as Hadji Ahmad Edris of Barangay Bulanza of Lantawan municipality in Basilan. Police collared the suspect as he disembarked from the M/V Estrella del Mar from Basilan.
Edris was arrested by virtue of a warrant of arrest for kidnapping and frustrated murder issued by Judge Hussin Amin of the Jolo Regional Trial Court. No bail was recommended for Edris.