Region: VI
Province: Iloilo, Philippines
Incident Rep. No.: 01-009
AR-HR ALERT:
Title: Destruction of houses and cattle rustling
Victim: Edmundo Villasis, Ryan Bulaqueno and Bobby Jun Villegas
Perpetrator: Ian Sarrosa with blackguards and Patricio Mahinay
Date of Incident: January 2 and January 4, 2009
Place of Incident: Brgy. San Fernando, Carles, Iloilo
Motive: Drive away occupants from their areas in position
Account of the Incident:
PJV Security Agencies hired Blackguards by SIDECO: Also detailed to
become thieves and act as demolition team on holiday season
Around 11:00 A.M. on January 2, 2009, Elsa Bulaqueno while gathering
some ube, a rotted crop, in their farm located at SIDECO’s private
property across the airstrip, when four blackguards together with
Patricio Mahinay Jr. arrived in her son’s house. She immediately hid
herself to prevent any untoward confrontation but to her surprise, the
guards started to destroy her son’s house until it was totally
demolished. Then they also destroyed the piled 28 sacks of chopped
“malunggay” tree (muringa indica) that is supposed to be sold by her
son and scattered it all over the place. After doing so, they proceed
to Edmundo Villases (elder brother of Elsa Bulaqueno) house which is
about 100 meters away wherein they did the same thing to Edmundos
house, whom during that time was in Estancia.
The Blackguards also confiscated the rice and charcoals made from
uprooted trees after the typhoon Frank. After the incident, Elsa
Bulaqueno immediately went to Brgy. Captain Bernal but due to his
inavailability, the incident was blottered only on the following day.
On January 4, the two also asked again Brgy. Captain Bernal if he
could help them recover some of his remaining belongings such as
clothes, kitchen utensils and some others with the aid of the Brgy.
Civilian Volunteer Officers (CVO) but according to Brgy. Capt. Bernal,
Ian Sarrosa, the Chief Security Guard told him they can only proceed
to the area on the following day since he still need to asked
permission from Mr. Sarrosa if Edmundo Villases can recover their
belongings. Afterwards, he further said that Edmundo can recover his
belongings if he would sign a paper with an unknown content.
During the same day, January 4, 2009, at around 2:00 o’clock in the
afternoon, Ian Sarrosa together with other blackguards went to Bobby
Jun Villegas pasture area where he kept his three cattles. They
dismantled the barbed wire that serves as fence and told them to
capture their cattles on the following day. Afraid to disobey the
guards, they leave their cattles to the security guards and went back
the following morning as per instruction. But as they tried to
recover it the following morning, they were told to wait until Mr.
Sarrosa arrived in Brgy. Captain Bernal asked for help but he answered
that we cannot do anything and we better wait for “Toto Edgar”. Until
now, the said cattles is still in their possession.
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January 26, 2009