Cops nab cabbie who left QC road accident victim

A taxi driver from Caloocan City was recently arrested for abandoning a pedestrian who was hit by his cab last week in Quezon City, police said Friday.

Insp. Elmer Monsalve, chief of the Quezon City Police District’s homicide section, said the suspect Monrey Montenegro had confessed that he left his cab—and the dead man inside it—near a hospital because he was too scared to face criminal charges.

Montenegro was tracked down and arrested at his Caloocan residence on Sunday, two days after leaving the body of Romulo Oliveros, 66, outside Quezon City General Hospital.  Oliveros was found dead inside a Mama taxi (TWS 729) that was abandoned on Seminary Road, Barangay Bahay Toro, late Friday last week.

The cab, which had a smashed windshield and dents on the front hood when found, was eventually traced to Montenegro, Monsalve said.  Julie M. Aurelio