Hug, come on. Everyone knows that Dominican common sense dictates that when the rich gringo isn't around then employees, novias and their chulos are free to use the rich gringo's stuff... out of sight, out of mind. That's capitalism at work, at least on some island nations!
The employee obviously knows the gringo isn't around. Who in the world would tell a "rich" gringo that someone else was driving his vehicle? That doesn't make Dominican sense. If it's a case of a gringo gone away for a while and the employee sharing her "wealth" with her boyfriend than time will flesh that out.
Dominican common sense is based upon sheer ignorance of paper trails, eyewitness accounts, and repeating "it wasn't me" over, and over, and over again regardless of contrary evidence presented. How many girls living in DR would you suppose even know that real estate transactions have a paper trail, or even care about that?