The National Police has formally accused a gang of six of the death of professor Vilma Núñez Guzmán and of 60 other assaults and seven rape cases of women in southern Santo Domingo. The case was sent to the District Attorney for its remission to the judiciary. The gang includes former policemen 25-year old Fausto Ortega Ortiz, and 23 year old Alexander Carmona Angomás. Also, 21-year old Alejandro Enrique Rosario González; 27-year old Luis Merán Zabala Ruddy; 28-year old Francisco Emilio Aquino Reyes; and 27-year old Luis Benjamín Báez Morla. The gang forced their victims to have oral sex and would usually burn their victims in the neck with the car cigarette lighter. The admitted to selling their booty in a San Cristóbal pawn shop. The case of Núñez is their only known murder. She appeared on 21 May 1999 in the bushes off Avenida Luperón. After her death, her assailants used her ATM card to steal RD$26,000 from bank money machines. The gang was caught when one of its subsequent victims got away, securing the help of two Policemen who arrested the men. A car cigarette lighter mark on the escaped victim’s neck lead to the linking of the past cases.
