QCPD seeks Comelec help on 3 ballot boxes found in demolished QC house

The Quezon City Police District has sought the help of the Commission on Elections on the three ballot boxes found in a demolished house in Barangay Alicia, Bago-Bantay, Quezon City.

QCPD director Police Brigadier General Joselito Esquivel Jr. said they have sent a letter request to Comelec chairman Sheriff Abas to verify any available documents regarding the discovered ballot boxes.

“We are still working for further investigation that might help to determine other details. The ballot boxes were kept at CIDU (Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit) office while waiting for the Comelec’s advise on the proper disposition,” Esquivel said in a statement.

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He said that around 4 p.m. of April 12, a demolition team was dismantling the roof of a house at No. 111 Cotabato St., Barangay Alicia when they discovered the ballot boxes hidden at the ceiling but they ignored it.

On April 15, Masambong Police Station (PS 2) personnel went to the area to validate the report of a concerned citizen about the three ballot boxes.

The police said two of the ballot boxes were empty while the other one contained two paper seals, two empty short brown envelopes, an empty long brown envelop, four pieces of watcher tally sheets and three blank mimeographed papers.

Esquivel said the items were turned over to CIDU under Police Major Elmer Monsalve for further investigation.

He said CIDU probers obtained a certification from Barangay Alicia stating that the occupant of the house being demolished was a certain Lilia Deang who died on July 9, 2017.

He said that according to Deang’s son Eleno Omilig, the said house became the dumping area of their previous boarders, mostly workers of a mall in EDSA.

Considering that the boarders would come and go, Omilig could no longer determine the persons who put the said ballot boxes.

GMA News Online sought Comelec spokesperson James Jimenez for comment but the latter has yet to reply as of posting time. — RSJ, GMA News