Lescrunch,
You already saw my response on DR1 and that of others.
If I may, I will try to compress a long story into the shortest version possible, with regards to when I first moved here in '91 and getting robbed.
I also lived in an isolated area just outside of Cabarete.
I awoke to the burglars in my house.
I chased them away and managed to get the license plate number of their pickup truck.
I made a police report and was stunned that they couldn't/wouldn't just run the tags and go arrest the thieves.
After realizing how useless the cops were, I hired kids on motorbikes to spend their days at strategic hi-traffic highway locations around the area.
On day 5, I had my man.
I got him arrested in Sosua as there was a chase and he was brought back to the Cabarete police station to "face the charges".
To my great surprise and dismay, the cops all knew him by name and were welcoming him and shaking his hand and smiling and joking.
I was stunned.
I vainly tried to convey to them that this was the thief that I had reported and they acted like I didn't exist.
Within 30 minutes, some POS Austrian guy was there, evidently the thief's boss.
He proceeded to explain to me that I had better drop the charges and that I was a newbie and that he had been there for a long time and that he was powerful and that I was but a speck of dust.
In short, he made it clear that my life wasn't worth shyte, if I didn't drop the charges.
Well..... I'm a pretty stubborn (sometimes stupid) guy and I don't respond well to threats and his threats just made me that much more adamant that I would pursue the matter.
By the next day I had him in front of the fiscal in Puerto Plata with his team of friends, family and lawyers, and I, with some guy I picked up off the street, acting as an interpreter.( I probably had a 200 word vocabulary in Spanish, at that time).
Amazingly, I managed to get his bail denied but couldn't find out from anybody at the court house, when the court date was going to be.
They kept telling me they would advise me, as if I had a phone or street address for them to notify me. (He was released two days later)
Within 2 days, upon arriving home, my neighbours advised me that a truckload of armed men had been by looking for me.
I immediately drove to Sosua to the place where I worked, only to be told that those same guys had been there looking for me.
I was finally getting the message.
Righteous cause or not, I was the one in trouble.
I headed off to Puerto Plata to see some guys whom I knew to own guns.
I paid them and some of their armed friends to come to my house with me in their truck.
Along the way I rented a van and we went to my house, cleared it out of all possessions, while the guys stood guard.
I then took off with my girlfriend and toured the country looking for another area to live in.
4 months later, I moved back to the area (Sosua).
By then the heat had died down, although I maintained a low profile for awhile, as I heard rumours of those guys still looking for me.
So the point is this.
Your situation is quite similar.
You've located the thieves, you've identified them to the cops and they are now free to roam the streets and your life ain't worth shyte right now.
It's time to get out.
Most people would simply leave the country and not be as stubborn and obstinate as I was, but whatever your decision might be, I do believe that you need to get out of that area, at least for now.
The story above of my adventure is not to demonstrate how to do things the right way.
Quite the contrary. I did it all wrong and it almost cost me my life.
The point is that it doesn't matter if you are right and they are wrong, nor that your case is righteous.
What matters is that you remain safe.
If you want to leave the area in a rush and come to Sosua, I will assist you.
Otherwise, I strongly recommend that you go elsewhere or simply leave the country.
Your life is at stake now.
Try to be wiser than I was and get the heck out of there before things go really bad.
Regards, Marco.