Marco Mahmoudieh is a fine upstanding member of the Sosua / Cabarete community and (I believe) the President of the International Residents Club. Hardly a trained assasin or, indeed likely to know one. I guess the police will need to look a little further than the first gringo that happened to walk past their station. Anyhow, he's probably out by now and if not, then I'm sure he will be soon. This is the down-side of the legal system here - they tend to pick up anyone at the drop of a hat, probably me next - OR YOU!!! For newbies or people who read this and get worried, remember that eventually, the truth seems to come out, the guilty get found out and we move on to the next scandal or bit of gossip. - The point is, as previously mentioned on another thread, if you don't go looking for trouble it rarely comes looking for you.