Cebu City Assistant Prosecutor Mary Ann Castro yesterday said she feels “aggrieved” that her carnapping complaint was “set aside” by the police when her estranged husband and sister-in-law, Provincial Board Member Grecilda Sanchez, filed a second one over the same SUV a week later.
Castro went to the PNP Regional Highway Patrol Unit to “give fair warning” that she may file an Ombudsman’s case against them for “mishandling” the case and Sanchez for “meddling”.
The lady prosecutor was back in the limelight last month after her spouse, Greco Sanchez, announced that their two-month-old marriage was on the rocks.
Greco spoke out after his brand-new black Ford Ranger 4 x 4 Wildtrack disappeared from the Capitol parking lot on Oct. 26 after he drove there for a meeting with his two sisters.
Castro expressed surprise, saying she had already reported the SUV stolen on Oct. 14, and accused a woman, later identified as Greco’s common-law wife, of taking it. The SUV is still missing.
The prosecutor, who has had running conflicts before with government officials, said she would file charges of libel and conduct unbecoming a public official against her new sister-in-law.
In her letter yesterday to Senior Supt. Jose Bucsit Macanas, Castro said she was resigning as vice chairperson of the RHPU-7 Advisory Council to avoid any doubt about the neturality of investigators.
She asked Macanas, the RHPU-7 chief, to sign an affidavit to support an account of his police officer Justin Sarsab that PB Member Sanchez was “meddling” in the investigation of the carnapping case by “constantly texting and calling us when she is not the registered owner of the subject vehicle.”
“I am the aggrieved (party), not her. So I told them that I will prepare the affidavit for them to sign that indeed Grecilda is meddling in the investigation of my carnapping complaint,” Castro told reporters.
Castro, in her letter, pointed out that HPG did not notify her that the Ford Ranger was “recovered” when her husband made the second carnapping alarm.
“There is no such thing as a double blotter. This is a procedural lapse which needs to be rectified,” said Castro. Upset that the HPG gave more weight to the complaint of her husband and Sanchez,
Castro asked the police to “set aside and drop” the second carnapping alarm or else she would press charges.
“Let the Office of the City Prosecutor do its work and not the other way around. Do not preempt the action of the office where I work for 16 years now,” she wrote.