Reported Incident Details from Dominican Republic
An incident of Theft has been reported in Dominican Republic – Luperon.
| Incident Date | 2020-06-01 at 11:30 |
| Event Type | Theft |
| Stolen Items | Cash, jewelry and credit card |
| Secured | Not Locked |
| Source Type | 1st Hand Report |
| Incident Details | During daylight hours between 10:15 and 11:30 AM an unlocked cruising catamaran on a private 2 yacht floating dock along the mangroves south of the Puerto Blanco marina was boarded and ransacked. The thief used a knife found on the yacht to defeat the locked safe and stole cash, jewelry and a credit card. Wet footprints were found throughout the yacht. A report was made to the police, port captain and coast guard as well as the tourism representative. The police visited the yacht and collected some forensics a few days later and currently have some suspects in custody.||CSSN NOTE: This is the 7th boarding/incident in this bay in the last 6 months. We will update this report as additional information about successful prosecution is provided by the victims. |