Carnap vehicle parts traced to secondhand motor dealers

It was supposed to be just petty thievery but at the rate it is going in Pasay City, it may even be instrumental in acquitting murderers, kidnappers and the likes.

Seized vehicles evidence in cases pending in Pasay City courts are slowly finding their way, part by part, to secondhand car parts dealers, and worse, right under the noses of Pasay City policemen themselves.

"They are evidence cars. They are not under me. I cannot touch them," said Pasay City Anti-Carnapping division (Ancar) chief Inspector Roger Sebastian in disowning any responsibility. Pasay City investigation division head Chief Inspector Reynaldo Baral, whose office has custody of the seized vehicles was not available as of press time. There are a total of 10 cars abandoned all over the Pasay City hall premises, many of them with broken windows and stripped of anything of value.

In the case of one Mitsubi Lancer GTI (CJE-111), it lost all its mag wheels while merely parked at the City Hall. The STAR noted some two weeks earlier though, that only the right front wheel was missing.

Ironically, a Cressida, even had its engine hood transformed into a bench for the adjacent Pasay City High School students, vandalizing it by carving their names in its paint.

Sebastian for his part boasted that the City has "zero" incidence of carnapping evidenced by the absence of any recovered carnapped vehicles in the area. – Jose Aravilla