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09-21-2011, 06:20 PM
National District prosecutor Alejandro Moscoso Segarra now suspects that the motive for the murder of Lieutenant Colonel Cesar Augusto Ubri Bocio, assistant to the chief of the National Drug Control Department, was the robbery of his vehicle.

The Police announced the captured two men suspected of the murder of Lieutenant Colonel Cesar Augusto Ubri Bocio this morning, as reported in El Dia. One of the men is a police sergeant. The two men had rammed the iron gate to enter the Ministry of the Armed Forces compound. Police sergeant Wascar Antonio Cavallo Montero and civilian Michael Cury, who were reportedly in possession of the homicide weapon, and other weapons.

The arrest came following an intensive investigation personally directed by Major General Rolando Rosado Mateo, who returned from Ubri Bocio's burial in Elias Pina last night. Ubri had worked as his personal assistant.

The arrested men were sent to the DNCD for interrogations by Rosado Mateo and an assistant prosecutor of the National District. They are accused of Ubri's murder in Las Praderas neighborhood in Santo Domingo.

Cavallo Montero was said to be the son of an active army colonel, and reportedly used a Honda Accord to trail Ubri Bocio's SUV to the point where the victim was murdered. Michael Cury was driving.

The DNCD now reports that the dead man's vehicle was found in Residencial Jose Contreras in Santo Domingo. Earlier reports indicated it had been found near Elias Pina.

DNCD spokesman Roberto Lebron said that the assailants were driving a Toyota Hilux pickup with government license plate OP011929. Last night, TV news commentator Roberto Cavada said that it had been established that the vehicle found in Elias Pina did not belong to Ubri.

Agent Cavallo Montero has a police record for armed robberies dating back to 2006, as reported in Listin Diario.

The newspaper reports that the Police had suspended agent Cavallo's father from the Police on grounds that he was not in control of his son's actions, after the latter was expelled from the organization for bad conduct and the father had maneuvered to get him reinstated.

Chief of the Police Major General Jose Armando Polanco Gomez does not agree that the murder was aimed at sending a message to the DNCD, as suspected by the DNCD, as reported in Hoy. Yesterday the DNCD spokesman pointed to the bullets shot into the arms, and the fact that neither the wallet nor personal items had been stolen, as reported in Hoy. The DNCD had said that the robbery of the vehicle was most likely to try to distract the crime investigators.

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