By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga

Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office (NOPPO) director, Police Senior Superintendent Rodolfo Castil, Jr., ordered an investigation into the reported use of an impounded vehicle owned by Moises Padilla Vice Mayor Ella Garcia-Yulo by a relative of the town’s former police chief.

“It is not allowed,” Castil said.

Former Moises Padilla Municipal Councilor Mark Garcia, the vice mayor’s sibling, said the car, which was impounded after Garcia-Yulo and her husband were nabbed at a police checkpoint at Barangay Crossing Magallon late last year, was involved in an accident yesterday morning in the same neighborhood.

The driver, whose identity is being withheld, is reportedly an in-law of former Moises Padilla police chief, Police Senior Inspector Alan Reloj.

He was admitted to the Isabela District Hospital for injuries sustained in the accident.

Castil said impounded vehicles should not be utilized because they are used as evidence in court./DGB, WDJ