The Police announced the arrest of Bartolo Ramon Rosario Peralta (alias El Viejo) believed to be behind the robbery of RD$25 million as reported by three employees of the Leonor & Asociados exchange house in the Colonial City on Monday. Spokesman for the Department of Criminal Investigations of the Police, Jose Rafael Castro said that they had been on the trail of the man since Marchen, when RD$15 million was stolen from the same company in San Francisco de Macoris. Rosario was arrested in the Invivienda sector in Santo Domingo Este.
Meanwhile, Listin Diario reports today that the Police and the District Attorney suspect that the employees that denounced the robbery of the RD$25 million could be involved in the theft. Judge Rosalba Garip ordered that the employees be kept in jail. She based the decision on statements by the president of the exchange house who declared that one of the men received a call and went to the bathroom. Owner Gustavo Leonor Martinez is also suspicious that his employees offered no resistance nor suffered any injuries.