NewsWhore
03-17-2011, 05:00 PM
Fast work by the National Police yesterday helped recover a sum of RD$14,429,930 that had been stolen from the Marino Dollars Exchange House, located on the San Isidro Highway. Of this amount, US$218,741 and EUR1,125 was found inside two safes and RD$5,986,770 in cash from the previous day's operations.
A former National Army captain, Felix Victor Molina, a former Police corporal, Victor Manuel Polanco and three civilians, Juan Rivas Melendez, Miguel Alexander Diaz and Carlos David Rodriguez are under arrest in connection with the crime. The spokesman for the National Police, Colonel Maximo Baez Aybar, said that several Police officers are pursuing another three suspects who were involved in the robbery that took place early yesterday morning. At the same time, the owner of the exchange house, Jose Alberto Jimenez, said that the security guard at the establishment was tied up, and that they realized that there was a robbery going on after the alarm went off.
Colonel Baez Aybar said that the Police set up several checkpoints to identify and detain the criminals. The group was arrested at the entrance to the Dr. Joaquin Balaguer Airport by a patrol assigned to the municipality of Santo Domingo North.
Diario Libre and other newspapers said that the two safes, still unopened, an SUV, a pickup truck, two pistols, ski masks, crowbars, and seven cell phones were seized, "and at the present time personnel from the Central Directorate of Criminal Investigations are in the process of arresting, if necessary, others who might be implicated in the robbery", according to National Police spokesman Colonel Maximo Baez Aybar. The recovered funds were counted by Jimenez in the presence of police and the prosecutor and returned to the owner of the exchange house.
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A former National Army captain, Felix Victor Molina, a former Police corporal, Victor Manuel Polanco and three civilians, Juan Rivas Melendez, Miguel Alexander Diaz and Carlos David Rodriguez are under arrest in connection with the crime. The spokesman for the National Police, Colonel Maximo Baez Aybar, said that several Police officers are pursuing another three suspects who were involved in the robbery that took place early yesterday morning. At the same time, the owner of the exchange house, Jose Alberto Jimenez, said that the security guard at the establishment was tied up, and that they realized that there was a robbery going on after the alarm went off.
Colonel Baez Aybar said that the Police set up several checkpoints to identify and detain the criminals. The group was arrested at the entrance to the Dr. Joaquin Balaguer Airport by a patrol assigned to the municipality of Santo Domingo North.
Diario Libre and other newspapers said that the two safes, still unopened, an SUV, a pickup truck, two pistols, ski masks, crowbars, and seven cell phones were seized, "and at the present time personnel from the Central Directorate of Criminal Investigations are in the process of arresting, if necessary, others who might be implicated in the robbery", according to National Police spokesman Colonel Maximo Baez Aybar. The recovered funds were counted by Jimenez in the presence of police and the prosecutor and returned to the owner of the exchange house.
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