The main suspect in the Monday, 27 October 2014 fire on the Santo Domingo Metro turned himself in to executives of the Telemicro Channel 5 TV station yesterday, Tuesday 28 October 2014.
He is identified in the media as Frankelis Holguin, a law student at the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD) said that he was on the Metro when the fire started but that it was not what people said. He admitted there was a fire and that he had a rucksack although when asked what was in it he just said, “you know”.
Police officers went to the television station to pick up Holguin to proceed with their investigations and to confirm he was the same man shown in the photograph provided by the Transport Reorganization Office (OPRET).