{"id":514504,"date":"2026-07-09T22:39:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T02:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/man-arrested-after-admitting-to-faking-theft-of-over-us33000-from-his-home\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T22:39:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T02:39:43","slug":"man-arrested-after-admitting-to-faking-theft-of-over-us33000-from-his-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/man-arrested-after-admitting-to-faking-theft-of-over-us33000-from-his-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested after admitting to faking theft of over US$33,000 from his home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Santiago de los Caballeros.\u2013<\/strong> Agents from the Property Crimes Investigation Division, assigned to the municipality of Villa Gonz\u00e1lez, in coordination with the Public Prosecutor&#8217;s Office, arrested a man accused of faking the theft of US$33,090 from his residence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The detainee, identified as <strong>Mauricio Batista Marte<\/strong>, had reported that several people broke into his home and made off with a safe containing cash and other valuables. However, investigations determined that the incident never occurred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the authorities, during the interrogations Batista Marte confessed that he had invented the alleged robbery, so the participation of third parties in the case was ruled out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As part of the investigation, the authorities recovered the <strong>US$33,090 in cash<\/strong>, money that was handed over voluntarily by a citizen, in addition to other items related to the investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">We recommend reading: <a href=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/nacionales\/apresan-hombre-y-recuperan\/\">Man arrested and stolen vehicle recovered in San Pedro de Macor\u00eds<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the process, two firearms were also seized. One of them, a 9-millimeter caliber pistol, had its legal documentation and was in the possession of the detainee. The other, a .40 caliber pistol without documents, was voluntarily handed over to the Public Ministry along with the recovered money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The defendant and the evidence remain in the custody of the Public Prosecutor&#8217;s Office, which will continue with the corresponding process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santiago de los Caballeros.\u2013 Agents from the Property Crimes Investigation Division, assigned to the municipality of Villa Gonz\u00e1lez, in coordination with the Public Prosecutor&#8217;s Office, arrested a man accused of faking the theft of US$33,090 from his residence. The detainee, identified as Mauricio Batista Marte, had reported that several people broke into his home and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133559,"featured_media":514505,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-29Qs","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/hombre-autorobo-900x847-1.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Preciosa Jimenez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-26-at-5.31.56-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/hombre-autorobo-900x847-1.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514504","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\/133559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}