It's been quite a month. I had an apartment break-in (in a nice Santo Domingo neighborhood) about three weeks ago and a vehicle stolen yesterday (from a parking lot in an even nicer neighborhood).
In BOTH instances Im convinced the "guachiman" or security guard was involved. I had to miss work and go through hell a few weeks ago, going from police station to police station to "fiscalia", to report and pursue the home break-in. Police walking around with pistols stuck into their waist bands because they are too poor / poorly organized to afford holsters, shouting in incomphrensible ghetto spanish. Long all-day waits for sargeants and fiscals to arrive. Urine-stinking jail cells around the corner. The prospect of the thief being released and waiting behind some dark tree.
Now I have to go through the process again for the vehicle on Monday morning. I have to pick up the thief and transport him to the fiscalia myself, "denounce" him and have him put in jail for who knows how long. (The guy who broke into my apt was out in a few days). Then I have to somehow get the security company to acknowledge their responsibility for the complicity of their employee in the theft.
It's a nightmare.
And spare me the "It happens in NY, too" posts.... I lived there.
I guess the moral of the story -- dont trust the security guard.
In BOTH instances Im convinced the "guachiman" or security guard was involved. I had to miss work and go through hell a few weeks ago, going from police station to police station to "fiscalia", to report and pursue the home break-in. Police walking around with pistols stuck into their waist bands because they are too poor / poorly organized to afford holsters, shouting in incomphrensible ghetto spanish. Long all-day waits for sargeants and fiscals to arrive. Urine-stinking jail cells around the corner. The prospect of the thief being released and waiting behind some dark tree.
Now I have to go through the process again for the vehicle on Monday morning. I have to pick up the thief and transport him to the fiscalia myself, "denounce" him and have him put in jail for who knows how long. (The guy who broke into my apt was out in a few days). Then I have to somehow get the security company to acknowledge their responsibility for the complicity of their employee in the theft.
It's a nightmare.
And spare me the "It happens in NY, too" posts.... I lived there.
I guess the moral of the story -- dont trust the security guard.