Nine policemen and a colonel have been detained by Dominican Republic authorities on suspicion of stealing firearms and ammunition from the police department’s arsenal and reselling them to criminals and others in neighboring Haiti, where violence has increased.
Officials are still searching for weapons and military materials as part of the continuing crackdown that started on November 24, 2024. When officials began going over the armory’s inventory, the investigation got underway.
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An official document acquired by the media house on November 21, 2024, provides information about the continuing inquiry, including the fact that Haitians purchased the stolen materials.
According to the document, one of the detained suspects, a lady from the Haitian bordering southern Dominican province of Pedernales, is suspected of receiving dozens of boxes of ammunition of various calibers that were sold for between $86 and $99 apiece. It stated that Haitians would frequently use them to perpetrate crimes after Miguelina Bello Segura sold them to them.
According to the affidavit, an officer who sold munitions through a source in Haiti gave money put into a sack to Narciso Antonio Feliz Romero, the detained colonel.
Bello and Feliz’s lawyers were not immediately available for comment.
Officials claim that Feliz unlawfully sold over 900,000 missiles as part of the plan.
