{"id":164084,"date":"2026-09-22T21:08:03","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T01:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/assault-on-councilman-manuel-torres-in-villa-gonzalez-under-investigation\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T21:08:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T01:08:03","slug":"assault-on-councilman-manuel-torres-in-villa-gonzalez-under-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/national\/assault-on-councilman-manuel-torres-in-villa-gonzalez-under-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Assault on councilman Manuel Torres in Villa Gonz\u00e1lez under investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Assault on the residence of councilman Manuel Eduardo Torres in Villa Gonz\u00e1lez under investigation<\/h2>\n\n<p>The National Police have initiated an investigative process following the assault perpetrated this Tuesday at the home of the Villa Gonz\u00e1lez councilman, Manuel Eduardo Torres, popularly known as Cosita. During the incident, the official and his wife were subdued and tied up by the criminals.<\/p>\n\n<p>The incident was recorded at approximately 8:00 in the morning. According to the councilman&#8217;s testimony, the assailants broke into his home and forced his partner to hand over the contents of a safe, managing to steal an estimated sum of 200,000 Dominican pesos, in addition to an unspecified amount of dollars and various valuable items.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Investigation and suspect search protocol<\/h2>\n\n<p>After receiving the alert, security agencies arrived at the scene to collect evidence. Authorities are meticulously analyzing the footage from video surveillance cameras installed in the vicinity of the property to reconstruct the escape route and the previous movements of the perpetrators.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Torres detailed that the attackers were wearing protective helmets, which prevented their facial identification. However, he specified that one of the individuals had a thin physical build, a key piece of information that is being cross-referenced with the collected visual evidence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Call to the authorities<\/h2>\n\n<p>The mayor of Villa Gonz\u00e1lez, C\u00e9sar \u00c1lvarez, has formally requested that investigative bodies deepen their inquiries. The mayor emphasized the importance of reviewing records from nearby commercial establishments and residences to obtain additional clues that will allow the incident to be clarified.<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Investigators are seeking to determine if the assailants had inside information regarding the assets kept in the home.<\/li><li>Efforts are being made to establish the exact number of participants and the means of transport used during the illicit act.<\/li><li>So far, no arrests have been reported in connection with this case, which remains under the control of the competent authorities.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n<p>The body of the order maintains the commitment to locate those responsible to bring them to justice, while the community of Santiago remains attentive to the progress of this case that has caused consternation in the town.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assault on the residence of councilman Manuel Eduardo Torres in Villa Gonz\u00e1lez under investigation The National Police have initiated an investigative process following the assault perpetrated this Tuesday at the home of the Villa Gonz\u00e1lez councilman, Manuel Eduardo Torres, popularly known as Cosita. During the incident, the official and his wife were subdued and tied [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":164085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12809],"tags":[726,16409,2231,16410],"class_list":{"0":"post-164084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national","8":"tag-assault","9":"tag-councilman","10":"tag-police","11":"tag-villa-gonzalez"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}