4th body found in Cubao in a month

MANILA, Philippines — The heavily tattooed body of a man was found early Sunday stuffed in a garbage bag and dumped along a highway in Quezon City.

Sunday’s find was the fourth this month in the Cubao area, where three other bodies with several stab wounds and ligature marks have previously turned up crammed in garbage bags.

Police Officer 2 Julius Cesar Balbuena, of the Quezon City Police District Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit (QCPD-CIDU), described the slain man to be between 40 and 45 years old, five-foot-one inch tall, fair-skinned and of medium build. He had the names “Negro,” “Commando,” “Versoza,” “Bragas,” “Melchor,” “Carina,” “Jennelyn,” “Arroyo,” and “Oclares” tattooed on different parts of his body and had a dragon tattoo on his back.

Balbuena said that the body was discovered by patrolling barangay (village) peace and security officers (BPSOs) at around 12:30 a.m., Sunday, along Epifanio delos Santos Avenue (Edsa) in Barangay San Martin de Porres in Cubao.

The case investigator said that the body bore stab wounds, a ligature mark around the neck and had a slit left wrist.

Last Tuesday, the body of a “Bahala na” gang member was found along Aurora Boulevard near Driod Street, Barangay Kaunlaran in Cubao. He had similarly been stuffed in a garbage bag and bore stab wounds in the body and a ligature mark around his neck.

Two other bodies were dumped in a similar manner on June 12 and June 14 in the Cubao district. One was dumped on a pile of trash on the Aurora Boulevard Bridge in Barangay Immaculate Concepcion while the other heavily tattooed body was found at the corner of Edsa and P. Tuazon Street in Barangay San Martin de Porres.