
On Sunday, 1 July 2018, at dawn, Police mayor Moisés Montero Amador died from wounds he received when pursuing Banco Popular (Ensanche La Isabelita) bank robbers. Montero Amador was seriously suffered serious injuries in the clash with the assailants during the search of a homej in Vietnam neighborhood in Los Minas in eastern Santo Domingo.
Montero was one of five other policemen that were injured. The other injured police officers are Colonel Manuel Antonio Cabrera Sarita, Lieutenant Colonels Rafael Tapia Rosario and Félix Peralta Castillo, as well as Sergeant Biojary Antonio Pérez Colón and Colonel Robert Abreu de Jesús.
During the confrontation, one of the robbers (identified only as Francis) was detained at the scene and was taken into custody by members of the Criminal Investigation Directorate (DICRIM). The assailant was in possession of a pistol and an M16 caliber rifle, with four cartridges.
What is known is that without bothering to cover their faces, five men had entered a branch of the Banco Popular Dominicano located in Hiper Uno in Esnanche Isabelita, in eastern Santo Domingo on Thursday, 30 June.
Police spokesman colonel Frank Felix Durán Mejía told the press that the M-16 firearm used by the robbers belongs to the Police of Haiti.
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2 July 2018