In just 33 days 62 robberies have been reported, carried out by motorcyclists who work in teams of two and whose victims are identified as defenseless residents in the National District. Of this total, 39 of the criminals targeted women and snatched their purses, cellphones and on other occasions, their cars.
Another detail is that of this total, eleven men died, killed by the Police or by their own victims, and 73 were sent for arraignment by the Police who arrested them. The last of these incidents reported was on Monday evening, 3 December in the neighborhood of El Milloncito in Santo Domingo, where a still unidentified man was killed after robbing cardiologist Maria Marmolejos Martinez, in the company of another man who escaped. Both men pointed guns at the doctor, they beat her and tried to flee with her purse, but a third man who saw everything shot at them, hitting one of them with a shot that killed him.
According to the National Police daily reports, Alfredo del Rosario and Graciela Rodriguez were robbed on 3 November in Santo Domingo. Both were targeted by people riding mountain bikes: del Rosario as he left a bank branch located on Padre Castellanos Avenue and Rodriguez when she was walking on Hostos Street in the Colonial Zone. Thieves took RD$17,000 from del Rosario and the cellphone and other belongings from the woman. Two days later, it was reported that two men on a motorcycle robbed engineer Raymundo de Soto who was relieved of RD$20,000 and his cellphone. Diario Libre has issued a call to the National Police and the AMET to come up with some sort of regulations for people on motorcycles but neither agency returned calls nor could provide an answer.