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09-14-2009, 04:00 PM
National Police revealed yesterday that three convicts, sentenced to 30 years imprisonment, led a gang that conned people by phoning them and telling them that relatives had been involved in serious incidents and asking for money to resolve the problems involved. The prisoners are Jose Francisco Guzman Paulino (Selo), Ernesto Alcantara Martinez (Capital), and Garibaldy Nunez (Gary).
Police Chief Rafael Guillermo Guzman Fermin said that the prisoners made up a gang of hustlers that used a phone book to select their victims and locate their numbers.
This was the gang that was responsible for robbing TV journalist Alicia Ortega and her husband, as reported last week. The family's housekeeper answered the phone and was told that one of Ortega's children had been involved in an accident and conned her to bring the the safe to them. During the police investigation, the housekeeper identified gang member Franklin Arsensio Alvarez as the person to whom she handed the safe and the jewelry.
The operation was carried out from the San Francisco de Macoris jail.
Guzman Fermin said that the inmates were assisted by Asensio Alvarez and Jose Bonilla Gonzalez, both fugitives, and Angel Henriquez Mendoza, who had served sentences in San Francisco jail for a series of crimes. Henriquez Mendoza was killed in a shootout with Police last Friday after being caught red-handed trying to cheat another person.
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Police Chief Rafael Guillermo Guzman Fermin said that the prisoners made up a gang of hustlers that used a phone book to select their victims and locate their numbers.
This was the gang that was responsible for robbing TV journalist Alicia Ortega and her husband, as reported last week. The family's housekeeper answered the phone and was told that one of Ortega's children had been involved in an accident and conned her to bring the the safe to them. During the police investigation, the housekeeper identified gang member Franklin Arsensio Alvarez as the person to whom she handed the safe and the jewelry.
The operation was carried out from the San Francisco de Macoris jail.
Guzman Fermin said that the inmates were assisted by Asensio Alvarez and Jose Bonilla Gonzalez, both fugitives, and Angel Henriquez Mendoza, who had served sentences in San Francisco jail for a series of crimes. Henriquez Mendoza was killed in a shootout with Police last Friday after being caught red-handed trying to cheat another person.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#10)