BACOLOD City – Dismembered body parts believed to be those of a man were found early Friday morning in front of the National Bureau of Investigation’s (NBI) Bacolod City office.
The mutilated body parts included a left hand, left leg and a pair of ears, and were believed to have been frozen for days already, said Colonel Noel Aliño, Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO) director.
The grim discovery was made by Salvador Algara, a job order employee at NBI-Bacolod, at around 5:45 a.m. on Friday, March 1, under a parked vehicle of the agency, the office of which is also just beside the Negros Occidental provincial capitol building on Aguinaldo Street, Purok Kamote Kahoy, Barangay 4.
The dismembered body parts were coupled with a message written on the paper bag against an NBI-Bacolod agent tagged as the illegal drug protector of a certain drug lord in the city.
The exact words of the handwritten note said, “William De Arca NBI Protector ni Hanz Lopez Drug Lord.”
With this, Aliño ordered Captain Glenn Montaño, chief of the Bacolod Police Station 2, which covers Barangay 4, to exert double efforts in probing the case.
The warning message, stressed by the BCPO director, connotes a strong threat that can’t be ignored. He added that BCPO will not relax on this and will rather utilize its full force to solve it as soon as possible.
Meanwhile, NBI-Bacolod chief Atty. Reiner Baldovino said he never received any information linking one of his agents to the illegal drug trade since he assumed the post in 2017.
Baldovino disclosed that the agency is currently concentrating on its operations against illegal gambling and not illegal drugs.
He said the NBI national office was already informed about this incident and left the investigation to Police Station 2.
Benitez: ‘You chose the wrong city.”
Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez warned whoever did the crime that they “chose the wrong city.”
It is likely a challenge against the NBI for choosing to leave the body parts outside its office, he added.
To recall, several mutilated body parts were recovered in this city, most of which have attached notes alleging a person’s involvement in illegal drugs. Some of these incidents include last year’s mutilated hands found in Barangay on January 25, a pair of feet in Barangay Villamonte on March 29, and the severed right hand found in Barangay Bata on April 17. All of which were from still-unidentified persons./PN
