{"id":476298,"date":"2025-07-25T10:25:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T14:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/honduran-man-arrested-accused-of-multiple-scams-against-a-banking-entity-in-the-dn-and-santiago\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T10:25:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T14:25:11","slug":"honduran-man-arrested-accused-of-multiple-scams-against-a-banking-entity-in-the-dn-and-santiago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/dominican-news\/honduran-man-arrested-accused-of-multiple-scams-against-a-banking-entity-in-the-dn-and-santiago\/","title":{"rendered":"Honduran man arrested, accused of multiple scams against a banking entity in the DN and Santiago"},"content":{"rendered":"Santiago.-<\/strong> The National Police, through its Cibao Central Regional Directorate,<\/strong> arrested Honduran citizen Albert Floyd Brooks Brown, 56 years old,<\/strong> by judicial order for his alleged involvement in multiple scams against a national banking entity, using fraudulent maneuvers in branches located in Santiago and the National District.\n\nThe arrest took place in a hotel in the Gazcue sector, in the National District,<\/strong> in compliance with arrest warrant No. 2025-AJ0037699. It was executed by agents attached to said regional direction.\n\n\n

You may be interested in:<\/strong> Citizens arrested for human trafficking<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nAccording to investigations, Brooks Brown was identified by representatives of the affected bank as the person who, through distraction maneuvers in the cash register areas, requested changes of bills and made atypical transactions that allowed him to withdraw cash without being immediately detected.\n\nThe preliminary report details that between May 23 and 27, 2025, the defendant allegedly caused a shortage of RD$95,999.32 in a branch located in a shopping center in Santiago. Likewise, similar patterns were identified in other offices, such as a branch within a supermarket in Los Frailes (RD$93,962.25) and another on Winston Churchill Avenue in the National District (RD$100,000.63). These amounts are still being verified by the Security Department of the banking entity.\n\nIt should be noted that on May 27, the defendant attempted to repeat the same tactic at a branch of a shopping center on John F. Kennedy Avenue, without success, after being detected in time by the staff of the establishment.\n\nThe facts attributed to him constitute a violation of article 379 of the Dominican Penal Code, which typifies and punishes the crimes of robbery and fraud through deception.\n\nAlbert Floyd Brooks Brown will be placed at the disposal of the Public Prosecutor’s Office in the coming hours for the corresponding legal purposes.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Santiago.- The National Police, through its Cibao Central Regional Directorate, arrested Honduran citizen Albert Floyd Brooks Brown, 56 years old, by judicial order for his alleged involvement in multiple scams against a national banking entity, using fraudulent maneuvers in branches located in Santiago and the National District. The arrest took place in a hotel in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":476299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[40216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dominican-news"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-1ZUe","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-07-25-at-9.38.42-AM.jpeg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Arelis Suero","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cropped-cropped-Diseno-sin-titulo-41-96x96.jpg","categories_name":["Dominican News"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-07-25-at-9.38.42-AM.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}