{"id":240171,"date":"2025-08-14T03:53:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T07:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=240171"},"modified":"2025-08-14T09:25:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T13:25:40","slug":"stolen-juan-pablo-duarte-ring-recovered-after-museum-heist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/08\/14\/stolen-juan-pablo-duarte-ring-recovered-after-museum-heist\/","title":{"rendered":"Stolen Juan Pablo Duarte ring recovered after museum heist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Instituto-Duartiano-Diario-Libre-1024x573.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-240249\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Instituto-Duartiano-Diario-Libre-1024x573.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Instituto-Duartiano-Diario-Libre-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Instituto-Duartiano-Diario-Libre-768x430.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Instituto-Duartiano-Diario-Libre-1536x860.png 1536w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Instituto-Duartiano-Diario-Libre.png 1790w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A historic ring, a gift from national hero Juan Pablo Duarte to his fianc\u00e9e, has been recovered by authorities after a brazen theft from the Instituto Duartiano Museum, Diario Libre reported. The ring, along with another valuable piece, was stolen from a display case by a man posing as a tourist on a guided tour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The incident occurred on August 5, 2025, when the man entered the Instituto Duartiano in Santo Domingo\u2019s Colonial City, pretending to be interested in a guided tour. According to a statement from the Public Ministry, the man took advantage of a moment of distraction to slip into an exhibition hall and steal two gold rings from a display.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the stolen rings bears the image of Juan Pablo Duarte, the founding father of the Dominican Republic. The second, and arguably more significant piece, is a ruby ring that Duarte gifted to his fianc\u00e9e, Prudencia Lluberes \u00c1lvarez. Both rings are considered part of the Duarte Institute&#8217;s historical patrimony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The investigation led police to a suspect identified as Manuel Alejandro F\u00e9liz Rodr\u00edguez, who goes by the alias &#8220;el Cojo.&#8221; F\u00e9liz Rodr\u00edguez, who has a distinctive limp, was identified on 9 August 2025 by members of the C4 Investigation Procedures Division from surveillance footage showing him at the museum on the day of the theft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was later spotted walking on Isabel La Cat\u00f3lica street, and an officer stopped him for questioning. F\u00e9liz Rodr\u00edguez reportedly admitted to visiting the museum, stealing the rings, and selling them at a pawn shop on Mella Avenue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities confirmed that he sold one of the rings for a mere RD$3,000 (roughly US$51)and the other for RD$15,500 (about US$264), which he received via bank transfer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Manuel Alejandro F\u00e9liz Rodr\u00edguez was arrested on 11 August and is now facing charges for theft and robbery. The Public Ministry has requested preventive detention, citing violations of articles 379 and 384 of the Dominican Penal Code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/sucesos\/2025\/08\/13\/hombre-roba-dos-anillos-del-instituto-duartiano\/3212086\">Diario Libre <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>14 August 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A historic ring, a gift from national hero Juan Pablo Duarte to his fianc\u00e9e, has been recovered by authorities after a brazen theft from the Instituto Duartiano Museum, Diario Libre reported. The ring, along with another valuable piece, was stolen from a display case by a man posing as a tourist on a guided tour. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/08\/14\/stolen-juan-pablo-duarte-ring-recovered-after-museum-heist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[337,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240171"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240251,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240171\/revisions\/240251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}