Hit-and-run car traced to cement firm but QC cops denied entry

QCPD director Senior Supt. Richard Albano

Whoever drove the black car that sideswiped P02 Anselmo Lazatin in Quezon City on Tuesday better start surfacing.

Lazatin’s boss in the Quezon City Police District on Thursday fumed upon learning that his men were barred from entering the offices of the company where the hit-and-run vehicle was traced.

“I want that person charged and I also want that car impounded,” said QCPD director Senior Supt. Richard Albano, after the black Toyota Corolla (ZNF-552) that hit Lazatin was found to be registered under Eagle Cement Corp. based in Mandaluyong City.

The driver, however, remained unidentified.

Albano said representatives of Eagle Cement were also supposed to meet him Thursday.

Senior Insp. Erlito Renegin, chief of QCPD Traffic Sector 3, said his men went to the company’s office on Edsa in Mandaluyong City to deliver a copy of the police report on the April 16 incident but they were refused entry by the security guards.

Lazatin, who reports to QCPD’s Kamuning station, met with Albano yesterday at Camp Karingal after spending two days at East Avenue Medical Center.

He was heading home on a motorcycle shortly before noon Tuesday when the black car went against the flow of traffic and hit his bike at the corner of V. Luna Street and East Avenue.

Lazatin, who was thrown off the bike, broke his left arm and was still wearing an arm sling when he showed up at Karingal.

The officer was earlier hospitalized after being punched allegedly by American basketball player Jamelle Cornley on March 27, when a QCPD team arrested the athlete for throwing a fit and causing damage at a hotel lobby.