Police arrest man accused of scamming another man through identity theft via Messenger
Police officers assigned to the Investigation Division (DICRIM), together with preventive members of Sosúa, Puerto Plata province, arrested a man who had an arrest warrant against him for allegedly having defrauded a person, usurping the identity of a relative to deceive him via Messenger and obtain the sum of RD$58,500 pesos.
The detainee, aged 23, was arrested under arrest warrant No. 0653-2024-ESADM-00173.
According to the complainant, the accused posed as a friend to request money from him, asking him to make the aforementioned deposit.
It was later discovered that this was a scam.
The detainee is now in the custody of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, for the corresponding legal purposes.
