A missing Bronx woman turned up dead Thursday when her body was found stuffed in a bag in a shallow body of water off a Westchester parkway, police sources said.
Pamela Alcantara, 26, was last seen around 2 a.m. on Sunday in her apartment on Morris Ave. near E. 179th St. in Morris Heights, police said.
As police searched for the woman, her ex-boyfriend became a person of interest in her disappearance, according to sources.
A license plate hit indicated that he had been in the area of Tibbetts Brook Park in Yonkers, where Alcantara’s body was discovered Thursday morning inside a bag in a creek, about 100 feet off the Saw Mill River Parkway, law enforcement sources said.
Police later took the dead woman’s ex-boyfriend into custody. Charges against him were not immediately filed.
On Wednesday, Alcantara’s mother spoke to News12 The Bronx, revealing that she last communicated with her daughter early Sunday morning, as the younger woman was returning home from a church event. Alcantara had been preparing for another event at a church in Connecticut later that day, but she never made it.
Her mother told the outlet Alcantara lived with her ex-boyfriend, but had plans to move out.
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