PLOT THICKENS: "She is sleeping with the enemy."

This is how the head of the Philippine National Police (PNP) described on Monday a female police official from Davao region who was arrested for allegedly attempting to rescue Abu Sayyaf terrorists in Clarin, Bohol.

Superintendent Maria Christina Nobleza, deputy regional chief of the Davao Crime Laboratory, was arrested on Saturday with her companion, Renierlo Dongon, after they allegedly tried to drive past a checkpoint near a village where Abu Sayyaf and security forces were in the thick of a firefight.

Intelligence reports said the two wanted to rescue a certain alias "Asis," a 17-year-old bandit believed to be from a royal bloodline in Basilan. Supplies allegedly intended for the terrorists were found in Nobleza's vehicle.

Investigators have discovered that Nobleza is "romantically linked" to Dongon, who turned out to be an Abu Sayyaf member, PNP chief Director General Ronald "Bato" dela Rosa said.

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"Ongoing pa ang investigation, but initially, this is what we have come up with: She's a balik-Islam and she's romantically involved or romantically linked with that ASG member na driver na later on na-find out na si Renier Dongon... na miyembro ng Abu Sayyaf," Dela Rosa said in a press briefing.

"Hindi ko alam kung nag-live-in na sila pero they fell in love with each other... Pumipitik ang puso ng police superintendent sa Abu Sayyaf member na si Dongon," he added.

Nobleza and Dongon are currently detained in Tagbiliran, Bohol.

The PNP, Dela Rosa said, will request for the two to be transferred to the police headquarters at Camp Crame as they are both "high-risk detainees."

Nobleza will also face additional criminal and administrative charges, the PNP chief added.

"Kakasuhan natin siya, iyung criminal na kaso niya. And administratively, siguradong tatanggalin natin siya sa serbisyo," he said.

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Nobleza was assigned to the Davao PNP Crime Laboratory when her former unit, the PNP Anti-Illegal Drugs Group, was dissolved in January, Dela Rosa said.

The PNP chief said an elderly woman and a minor who were also accompanying Nobleza and Dongon have terrorist links.

Dela Rosa said the elderly woman's children are married to terror leaders Zulkifli Abdhir alias "Marwan," Khadaffy Abubakar Janjalani, Abu Sulayman al-Muhajir and Ahmed Santos. The minor, meanwhile, is Santos' child.

The woman is still in police custody while the child has been turned over to the Department of Social Welfare and Development.

Charges will be filed against the woman if investigators prove that she is involved with the alleged Abu Sayyaf rescue, Dela Rosa said.