NewsWhore
07-10-2012, 01:40 PM
With both President Leonel Fernandez (on his 71st trip abroad as President) and President-elect Danilo Medina out of the country during the three-month long transition period, the nation continues to hear of spectacular robberies and acts of violence. Recently, senator Wilton Guerrero warned he was seeing what he described as "maximum tolerance" towards crime by the security forces.
According to El Caribe, the rise in crime during the transition period is a rare occurrence, because this period is usually one of "wait and see" with hopes of a better future with the new administration.
Yesterday, Monday 9 July in Maimon, Monsignor Nouel province (Bonao), two men allegedly attempted to steal a Philip Morris truck loaded with Marlboro cigarettes. Three people were wounded during the incident, including an employee of Philip Morris.
On Sunday, 8 July, 14 people allegedly robbed the Unipollo poultry company in the community of Manga Larga near Cutupu, between La Vega and Santiago and took an undisclosed amount of money and equipment.
That same day another group of men carrying rifles held up the branch office of the La Vega Real Cooperative in the town of Pimentel, in San Francisco de Macoris. The list is long and includes a robbery of a truck from the Cerro Maimon mining company that was carrying 19 tanks of gold and silver precipitate worth US$1.5 million.
Other robberies reported in the press involved a messenger who was robbed of RD$2.5 million in the Banco de Reservas parking lot and a robbery at the Trebol Supermarket in Gurabo in Santiago, and the chaos in Bonao.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#8)
According to El Caribe, the rise in crime during the transition period is a rare occurrence, because this period is usually one of "wait and see" with hopes of a better future with the new administration.
Yesterday, Monday 9 July in Maimon, Monsignor Nouel province (Bonao), two men allegedly attempted to steal a Philip Morris truck loaded with Marlboro cigarettes. Three people were wounded during the incident, including an employee of Philip Morris.
On Sunday, 8 July, 14 people allegedly robbed the Unipollo poultry company in the community of Manga Larga near Cutupu, between La Vega and Santiago and took an undisclosed amount of money and equipment.
That same day another group of men carrying rifles held up the branch office of the La Vega Real Cooperative in the town of Pimentel, in San Francisco de Macoris. The list is long and includes a robbery of a truck from the Cerro Maimon mining company that was carrying 19 tanks of gold and silver precipitate worth US$1.5 million.
Other robberies reported in the press involved a messenger who was robbed of RD$2.5 million in the Banco de Reservas parking lot and a robbery at the Trebol Supermarket in Gurabo in Santiago, and the chaos in Bonao.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#8)