NewsWhore
10-11-2007, 02:40 PM
The illicit business of stealing metals and selling them for profit has reached new lows according to the Diario Libre. Yesterday Juan Aneudy Duran Baez, 35, was shot in the back and legs after he was caught trying to steal boxes of bronze zippers from the Notion factory at the free trade park in Santiago. Duran and his accomplices were caught trying to steal 80 boxes of zipper, which had a reported sales value of RD$1.5 million. More disturbing is the continuing trend of cemetery theft. Diario Libre reports that many tombs at the cemetery at Av. Maximo Gomez have been vandalized and their doors and other metal objects stolen for sale to metal exporters.
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