Major General Pedro de Jesús Candelier ordered the confining to barracks of the "cascos negros" (black helmeted police) of the Campamento Duarte. These agents are usually used to break up riots and protests. Two active policemen (Corporals Luis Meran Sabana and Fausto Ortega) from that division confessed to being part of a gang that had assaulted and violated dozens of women in Santo Domingo (see http://www.dr1.com/daily/news100499.shtml). The chief of the Police appointed a commission made up by General Raul Almonte Lluberes, Inspector General; General Rafael Bencosme Candelier, director of Criminal Investigations, Colonel Bienvenido de Oleo Moreta, Chief of Personnel and Order; and Lt. Colonel Jose Armando Polanco, Commander of the Anti-Robbery Department. Eight hundred agents serve at Campamento Duarte. All are now under scrutiny by the hierarchy of the Police. Nelson Rosario Guerrero, spokesman for the Police said, "What we do not want is that anyone who may be involved in matters of this kind go without punishment; we have to get to the bottom of this."
