THE Federal Bureau of Investigation at around 3 p.m. Friday executed a search warrant at the Department of Public Safety.
The first office to be searched was the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, according to Dre Pangelinan, DPS public information officer.
One of the FBI agents posted a handwritten sign on the door of the BMV office stating, “Closed for the rest of today.”
A few minutes later, FBI agent Hae Jun Park and another FBI agent emerged from the BMV office with acting DPS Commissioner Juana Leon Guerrero, the bureau’s director. They then entered another office of the building.
Two police officers assigned to the commissioner’s office told Variety that other FBI agents were in the DPS information technology or IT room.
The FBI agents were “focused” on BMV and the DPS IT room, Variety was told.
One of the FBI agents said they were “still in early investigation so we can’t make a comment.” Another FBI agent said, “We don’t have any comment, sir.”
Pangelinan told reporters that they were not sure what the FBI agents were there for or what they were looking for, “but we have our department working with the FBI.”
He said DPS was giving the FBI agents “space to walk around and do what they needed to do to conduct their visit.”
Earlier on Friday, Gov. Ralph DLG Torres designated Juana C. Leon Guerrero as acting DPS commissioner “until further notice” following the resignation of DPS Commissioner Robert Guerrero.
FBI agents are seen exiting one of the offices of the Department of Public Safety on Friday afternoon.
Department of Public Safety Acting Commissioner Juan Leon Guerrero, center, is seen with Federal Bureau of Investigation agent Hae Jun Park and another FBI agent on Friday as the FBI executed a search warrant at the Bureau of Motor Vehicles and the DPS Information Technology office.
