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09-20-2011, 05:40 PM
A commission of high-ranking officers headed by the Chief of Police himself, Major General Jose Armando Polanco Gomez, and the head of the National Drug Control Department (DNCD), Rolando Rosado Mateo, is looking for four men who killed Lieutenant Colonel Cesar Augusto Ubri Bocio of the National Army at point-blank range with three shotgun blasts on Saturday evening. A woman, Yocasta Martinez Madera, is a key witness in the ongoing investigations of the crime. Martinez, who worked as a deputy legal adviser at the DNCD, was with Ubri Bocio at the time of the murder and at least six other people who witnessed the crime have also been questioned.
In a statement issued yesterday, the DNCD warned the murderers of the dead officer, who worked as Rosado Mateo's personal assistant that "they were going to pay dearly for this affront," while at the same time indicating that this crime, if it was a message, "would not stop us from continuing to work against drug trafficking in all its forms." "Everything seems to indicate that we are dealing with a sort of message, based on the way in which Ubri Bocio's killers shot him. He was shot in each arm, which we in the DNCD take as a message," he said.
Since the crime occurred, a police team has been combing the area and has carried out several searches in motels and hotels in search of the killers, who according to witnesses were traveling in a gray 2007 Toyota 4 Runner, as well as a Toyota Highlander and two cell phones that they stole from Ubri Bocio. The officer was killed by three shotgun blasts, and this type of weapon cannot be traced by ballistics tests. The SUV was found on the highway between San Juan de la Maguana and Elias Pina, a province on the border with Haiti. The Police and Army suspect the murderers were trying to escape across the border.
The wake will be held at the Blandino Funeral Home on Abraham Lincoln Avenue, and from there the body will be taken to El Llano in Elias Pina for burial. Ubri Bocio, 44, had served for 20 straight years in the DNCD, and spent the last few years as the assistant to the agency chiefs. Officers of the National Police Criminal Investigations Department (Dicrim) are receiving assistance from a team that Major General Rosado Mateo has selected for this purpose to lead the investigations.
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In a statement issued yesterday, the DNCD warned the murderers of the dead officer, who worked as Rosado Mateo's personal assistant that "they were going to pay dearly for this affront," while at the same time indicating that this crime, if it was a message, "would not stop us from continuing to work against drug trafficking in all its forms." "Everything seems to indicate that we are dealing with a sort of message, based on the way in which Ubri Bocio's killers shot him. He was shot in each arm, which we in the DNCD take as a message," he said.
Since the crime occurred, a police team has been combing the area and has carried out several searches in motels and hotels in search of the killers, who according to witnesses were traveling in a gray 2007 Toyota 4 Runner, as well as a Toyota Highlander and two cell phones that they stole from Ubri Bocio. The officer was killed by three shotgun blasts, and this type of weapon cannot be traced by ballistics tests. The SUV was found on the highway between San Juan de la Maguana and Elias Pina, a province on the border with Haiti. The Police and Army suspect the murderers were trying to escape across the border.
The wake will be held at the Blandino Funeral Home on Abraham Lincoln Avenue, and from there the body will be taken to El Llano in Elias Pina for burial. Ubri Bocio, 44, had served for 20 straight years in the DNCD, and spent the last few years as the assistant to the agency chiefs. Officers of the National Police Criminal Investigations Department (Dicrim) are receiving assistance from a team that Major General Rosado Mateo has selected for this purpose to lead the investigations.
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