POLICE SAY
Hired men behind
DAR office bombing

Hired men from outside Bacolod City could have been behind the bombing of the Department of Agrarian Reform office last week, the police said yesterday.

Police Station 1 commander, Chief Inspector Noel Manaay, said the two men who lobbed an anti-personnel grenade at the DAR compound Thursday could have not been from Bacolod because their assets did not inform them so.

Police investigation show that two unidentified men their faces covered with towels, were seen riding a speeding motorcycle, right after the blast at the Agrarian Reform office at about 1:50 a.m. Thursday.

Nobody was hurt but the gate of the compound was peppered with shrapnel holes and several parts of its glass windows were destroyed, police investigation said.

The police had said several days ago that it will seek the help of the National Bureau of Investigation to come up with the facial sketches of the two but, so far, no result has come out.

Case investigator PO2 Celito Dullan of Police Station 1 said, a female teenager had talked to two men who may have been the culprits, when they tried to buy toothpaste and cigarets from her store hours before the incident.*PP

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Marijuana seized in raid

More than P14,000 worth of marijuana leaves were seized by the police in a raid in Bacolod City Monday.

The illegal substance weighing more than one kilo was reportedly confiscated by members of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency, the National Bureau of Investigation, and Police Station 4 from the house of Randolph Jimenez at Siocon Road , Brgy. 26, in Bacolod .

PDEA Negros Occidental director, Jomarie Occeña, said in a television interview that they had been monitoring the activities of Jimenez, who managed to escape, before Thursday's operation.

Meanwhile, Police Station 4 commander, Chief Inspector Santiago Rapiz, said they have filed several drug charges at the City Prosecutor's Office against the four suspects they arrested during an alleged pot session in Brgy. 27, in Bacolod .

Charges for illegal possession of drugs and paraphernalia and maintaining a drug den were filed against Kenny Labandillo, Reñer Valencia , Zacarias Caragatan, and Arandelo Pepino, Rapiz said.

Rapiz said they are monitoring Brgy. 27 to curb illegal drug activities.*PP

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