A notebook containing written instructions on how to make a bomb was among the items found after police authorities raided jail cells at Camp Bagong Diwa on Monday.
The bomb-making notes, police said, included diagrams on chemical mixtures and some portions of Arabic text at the back of the notebook.
National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) Director Oscar Albayalde said the bomb-making lecture notes were found inside a 5-person cell in SICA-1 (Special Intensive Care Area) detention facility, which houses 396 high-profile inmates.
“We’re still looking at the inmates’ background. The one who owns the lecture is allegedly a former member of the Special Action Force,” he told DZMM.
Albayalde said the jail warden found 19 cellphones inside the same cell last week.
The raid conducted by 300 members of the NCRPO also yielded drug paraphernalia, blades, notebooks and gadgets.
Albayalde said most of the inmates in the raided cells are involved in illegal drug trading as evidenced by their transactions revealed in the text messages from the confiscated cellphones.
“The messages revealed the price and the amount [of substance] they ordered. Apparently, transactions are still being made inside the jails. We didn’t find any illegal drugs, just the paraphernalia,” he said.
The cells raided by the police include SICA-1 , SICA-2, Manila City Jail Extension, Quezon City Jail Extension and the Taguig City Jail Extension.
Members of the Abu Sayyaf, the New People’s Army, criminal groups and drug lords are jailed in these cells.–with reports from Anjo Bagaoisan and Michael Delizo, ABS-CBN News
This story first appeared on ABS-CBN News and is re-published with permission.
