On Wednesday, 2 July 2014 the National Investigations Department reported that a man named as Ruben Manuel Ciprian Toribio was arrested and sent to justice for a bomb scare hoax. DNI agents carried out the investigation after receiving the information from the Specialized Airport Security Corps (CESAC). They found that on 3:08am on 30 June 2014, Ruben Ciprian contacted his friend Rosandy Miguelina Arias Ventura, who helped him to make a conference call with the airport for the alert call: “Anar Eric Adler, Delta 514, this is a bomb.” The call referred to a US citizen with whom Ciprian Toribio had shared a room in the Barcelo Hotel in Punta Cana, but with whom he had a dispute, leading to Adler’s early departure. In reprisal, Ciprian decided to try and get Adler arrested for the bomb scare. Ciprian was given a three-month preventive custody order.
Another hoax bomb scare case occurred in May, but it was linked to a 10-year old boy.
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