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10-12-2009, 03:50 PM
The news trickled into all the newspaper offices over the weekend. Kidnap victim Eduardo Baldera Gomez escaped from his captors in the area of Buen Hombre, Villa Vasquez, and walked for a good distance, finding refuge with two farmers who were milking cows. They fed him breakfast and helped him get to El Copey police station. His uncle, Virgilio Baldera was the first to see him and said that he was in good health, according to Hoy newspaper. The police also announced the arrest of Carlos Marte Maria and Willian de Jesus Batista on kidnapping charges.
As more details emerged, the National Police reported the deaths of two men allegedly involved in the kidnapping at the hands of police agents sent to arrest them. The two have yet to be named, but Baldera Gomez was said to have identified the men as his keepers on the beach. He said that he could identify their pants and their scuffed boots, according to reports in El Caribe and El Nuevo Diario. Sergeant Catalino Jesus Perez, one of the three men sent to bring in Eduardo Baldera was wounded during the shootout. Police Chief Rafael Guillermo Guzman Fermin called on the other men involved in the kidnapping to turn themselves in and avoid further bloodshed. They are Ramon Polanco, Acadio Mercadio, Juan Almonte, Rafael Leonardo Hernandez, Ruben Dario Silvestre and Cecilio Diaz, better known as "Manuel". The police chief told reporters from El Caribe that they had identified "Manuel" as the head of the kidnapping gang and that Marte Maria had been the last person to call the family with the ransom demand.
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As more details emerged, the National Police reported the deaths of two men allegedly involved in the kidnapping at the hands of police agents sent to arrest them. The two have yet to be named, but Baldera Gomez was said to have identified the men as his keepers on the beach. He said that he could identify their pants and their scuffed boots, according to reports in El Caribe and El Nuevo Diario. Sergeant Catalino Jesus Perez, one of the three men sent to bring in Eduardo Baldera was wounded during the shootout. Police Chief Rafael Guillermo Guzman Fermin called on the other men involved in the kidnapping to turn themselves in and avoid further bloodshed. They are Ramon Polanco, Acadio Mercadio, Juan Almonte, Rafael Leonardo Hernandez, Ruben Dario Silvestre and Cecilio Diaz, better known as "Manuel". The police chief told reporters from El Caribe that they had identified "Manuel" as the head of the kidnapping gang and that Marte Maria had been the last person to call the family with the ransom demand.
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