According to General José Acosta Castellanos, regional director of the Cibao-Central of the Police, the security guard who was found dead in the back of a police truck as a result of a shot to the head is considered the architect of the robbery of Banco Vimenca.
Acosta Castellanos confirmed that the death of the security guard was a suicide, and that the officers who carried out the arrest are being investigated by the Public Prosecution Service, as they did not apply the correct protocol, handcuffing him with his hands in front rather than behind. This supposedly allowed the security guard to use a gun to shoot himself.
He said that according to preliminary information, security guard Antonio Polonia Bueno was in constant communication with the criminals who carried out the robbery and giving the assailants instructions on how and when to carry out the crime.
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Listin Diario
3 July 2018
