The Chief of the National Police Pedro de Jesus Candelier ordered that a commission investigate a police mayor that has been implicated in the assault of the Vimenca values truck in September 1999 at the corner of Abraham Lincoln and Jacinto Mañón. Three custodians were killed, a third seriously injured and more than RD$3.5 million stolen. Police investigators have implicated a university professor that has ties to the Fuerza de la Revolución, a leftist movement lead by Narciso Isa Conde, former leader of the defunct Dominican Communist Party. Isa Conde said he sent a letter to President Fernández and to Víctor Méndez Capellán, president of the remittances company, indicating that they should investigate a Mayor Melo Santos who has been protected by the Police, and who is a member of the commission that has investigated the assault. Isa Conde says the police has tried to hide the participation in the assault of a white Datsun 160J, assigned to a high-ranking police officer who was on the crime’s investigation committee. The director of the National Department of Investigations Rear Admiral Sigfrido Pared Pérez told the press, "In the Vimenca case, any person could have been there, military or civilian, the simple facts of the operation, how it took place, give an idea that there has to have been military or police agents involved."
