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12-22-2010, 03:40 PM
Police agents assigned to the National Police Criminal Investigation Division have arrested three more suspects in connection with a triple homicide that has shocked the town of Bonao. For a pistol and a cell phone, 20-year old Juan Manuel Torres Zapata (a.k.a. Samuelito) cut the throats of 72-year old Leoncio Julian Nunez Nunez, 61-year old Elena Batista Pelagio and their 8-year old grandson Yan Manuel Nunez Maceo. Torres was arrested several hours later. The Police say the motive of the crime was to steal money or other valuables.
The Police continued to investigate the crime and arrested Paul Rodriguez Bencosme, Jose Rafael Ramos Olivo and Natanael Torres Zapata who are being held as accomplices of "Samuelito". Rodriguez Bencosme hid the pistol taken from Nunez Nunez. Ramos Olivo took the confessed killer to the house, and his prints match some of those found inside the house. The killer's brother Torres Zapata burned evidence by putting gasoline on the clothes and shoes that the killer wore during the crime.
The Police reported that the Justice Department has declared the case to be "complex" and has ordered one year's preventive custody for the four suspects while the District Attorney prepares his case.
Reaction to the story in El Nuevo Diario was virulent, with people such as "Francisco" from Bonao and a reader who claimed to be a cousin of the child who was killed, offering RD$50,000 for a minute alone with the killer. Another commenter, "Tony" said he would put up another RD$50,000 if the authorities would just put the criminals in the main square for a while and let the public do its work. Finally, another "Francisco", this one from "Brooklin (sic), New York", said: "I double this to RD$300,000 so they put them in La Victoria prison for an hour or in the plaza by the 17 Bridge (in Santo Domingo) at the mercy of my boys. He went on to say that he hoped that some day "congress will approve the death penalty in Santo Domingo. So that these criminals pay eye for eye, for their crimes and the Dominican Republic is like before. We are fed up with seeing people and innocent kids die at the hands of the unscrupulous."
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The Police continued to investigate the crime and arrested Paul Rodriguez Bencosme, Jose Rafael Ramos Olivo and Natanael Torres Zapata who are being held as accomplices of "Samuelito". Rodriguez Bencosme hid the pistol taken from Nunez Nunez. Ramos Olivo took the confessed killer to the house, and his prints match some of those found inside the house. The killer's brother Torres Zapata burned evidence by putting gasoline on the clothes and shoes that the killer wore during the crime.
The Police reported that the Justice Department has declared the case to be "complex" and has ordered one year's preventive custody for the four suspects while the District Attorney prepares his case.
Reaction to the story in El Nuevo Diario was virulent, with people such as "Francisco" from Bonao and a reader who claimed to be a cousin of the child who was killed, offering RD$50,000 for a minute alone with the killer. Another commenter, "Tony" said he would put up another RD$50,000 if the authorities would just put the criminals in the main square for a while and let the public do its work. Finally, another "Francisco", this one from "Brooklin (sic), New York", said: "I double this to RD$300,000 so they put them in La Victoria prison for an hour or in the plaza by the 17 Bridge (in Santo Domingo) at the mercy of my boys. He went on to say that he hoped that some day "congress will approve the death penalty in Santo Domingo. So that these criminals pay eye for eye, for their crimes and the Dominican Republic is like before. We are fed up with seeing people and innocent kids die at the hands of the unscrupulous."
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#14)