NewsWhore
10-20-2008, 02:10 PM
The gang that holed up in a house in the Tres Ojos section of Santo Domingo East had killed five people, including businessman Julio Polanco, on the night of 23 August on Padre Castellanos Avenue. Polanco was robbed of RD$25,000 and US$300 in cash. Three of the gang members are registered in police files with a long list of crimes including assault, robbery and attacks on several traders, including the Las Mercedes Money Exchange in Villa Consuelo and an Isla gasoline station in Arroyo Hondo. Those arrested were named as Teopraxides Antonio Garcia Rodriguez, 25, Junior Uribe Pena, 25, Michael Eusebio Valerio, 28, Stalin Suarez Valerio, 19, and cousins Yoami Diaz and Juddy Josefina Diaz Almanzar. The gang surrendered to Perfecto Acosta, the prosecutor for Santo Domingo Province, General Hector Garcia Cuevas and Father Osvaldo Sanchez, a parish priest from Capotillo. The gang also surrendered a hand grenade, three pistols, three cellphones, a bag full of drugs, four caps with the National Drug Prevention Department (DNCD) logo and four bulletproof vests. The police also seized a Honda Accord used by the gang. According to Diario Libre, the gang had committed a robbery and the police mounted an operation that followed the vehicle until it was parked on 26th Street in Los Tres Ojos. When the gang discovered that it was surrounded they threatened to detonate the grenade, and one of the group called a friend called "Juan Bosch" who arrived and pleaded with them to surrender without a firefight.
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