KHANKALA. April 18 (Interfax-AVN) - A militant suspected of involvement in the murder of several policemen has been detained in Chechnya, spokesman for the federal forces in the North Caucasus Major General Ilya Shabalkin told Interfax on Sunday.
He said information about the suspect's whereabouts was provided by residents in Grozny's Zavodskoi district. Home-made hand grenades were seized during the militant's detention.
The detainee was a member of the assault group of slain Chechen separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov's so-called "anti-terror center," Shabalkin said. Then he joined the Albek Bugayev criminal group under warlord Doku Umarov's command, he added.
He said the militant is suspected of blowing up the Urus-Martan district police headquarters' car in 2002, which caused the death of five policemen, and killing a policeman in the village of Roshni-Chu in 2003.