Santo Domingo
With rifle-type firearms they would have assaulted a woman who was transporting $15,000 in a vehicle from the collection of six pharmacy chains in the city of Santo Domingo, the previous Saturday.
The robbery took place inside the garage of a hotel on Abraham Calazacón and Arturo Lince avenues, a few blocks from the Santo Domingo bus terminal.
Witnesses reported that the sharpshooter-style criminals, including a woman, arrived on two motorcycles and two of them entered with violence to attack their victim.
They even broke the windows of the car-type vehicle in which the woman was traveling. The criminals would have fled on the same motorcycles.
Two witnesses indicated that they tried to help the woman, one with a broomstick, but stopped when they saw the high-caliber weapons.
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The affected also owns the hotel where the robbery occurred. Gustavo Játiva, from the Santo Domingo police command, stated that the woman had not requested the free police protection; meanwhile, the case is being investigated with the videos from the hotel cameras and nearby premises.
On Monday the 11th, criminals stole more than $50,000 in cash from a citizen who entered to deposit this money in a banking agency in Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas.
The robbery happened at the door of the financial institution located on Abraham Calazacón and Quevedo avenues, La Chorrera sector, according to the Police.
The affected person transported the money in a backpack from the Los Rosales sector without police custody or protection, said Cristian Ruiz, head of the western district of Santo Domingo.
More than $50,000 was stolen from a citizen who went to the bank to make a deposit
Merchants and inhabitants of the Tsáchila province demand greater police security due to the increase in robberies of people and vehicles.
According to data from the National Police, criminal acts in the Tsáchila province increased to 1,175 cases between January and the second week of July, while last year there were 945 in this same period.
The robbery of people was 351 cases and last year, 318; theft of goods and accessories, from 43 to 65; motorcycle theft, from 137 to 222; car theft, from 185 to 284; home robbery, from 147 to 150; thefts to economic units, from 112 to 101; highway robberies, the number of cases fell from 3 to 2.
While 68 violent deaths have been recorded in the Tsáchila province so far this year. On Sunday the 17th, three violent events were recorded with a balance of four deaths and four injuries, in different urban sectors of Santo Domingo.
According to neighbors, the victims were drinking in that sector when they were shot. One was identified as Darío Cusme, 31 years old.
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The attacks did not end there, at approximately 04:00, while a group of people were celebrating a baptism, subjects aboard a car arrived and shot at those present. Five people were rushed to a sanatorium, where Tito Loor (34 years old) died while undergoing surgery for gunshot wounds to the abdomen.
Two men, a woman and a minor were hospitalized and their health condition was stable.
Cecilia Z., a merchant, was robbed on two occasions and has witnessed assaults and robberies of people in her sector. Javier A., a resident of a housing cooperative where its residents have created neighborhood brigades to help the Police, commented on something similar.
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The Municipal Council proposed an ordinance project that regularizes the use of bladed weapons, for which merchants or vendors must justify their carrying in their activities.
Councilor Norma Ludeña, of Planning and Budget, explained that through a municipal permit and enabling documents of the establishment, the use of knives, machetes or other objects in their activities is justified.
In the opinion of María Torres, who has been selling roasted sweet plantains for more than 25 years on public streets, it does not justify having her work knives taken away from her.
Élber Loor, president of the Federation of Merchants October 28, agrees with the regulations that are for security and even that a record be made of the white weapons that are used in the different businesses. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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