SAN JUAN – The Puerto Rico Police Commissioner, Antonio López Figueroa, confirmed this Thursday that a letter published on social media about a man’s threat to kill two policemen in revenge for the death is real. of his brother.
“We confirm that the document that has circulated through the media about a threat to our police officers is one of an official nature. We have already started an investigation and we are taking the corresponding measures,” the commissioner said in a statement.
“We take any threat with the seriousness that it deserves. When that threat is directed at a Puerto Rico Police officer, it constitutes an attack on public order and safety,” he stressed.
According to the letter, an informer notified the authorities that last 31 May, the leaders from the Callejón Corea in the Monacillo sector in Río Piedras (San Juan) met.
Among those people was Rafael García Beltrán, better known as “Pito” and brother of Obed García Beltrán, from 16 years old and one of the two people killed last Sunday in a confrontation with the Police at the Punta Salinas Beach Resort in Toa Baja (north).
According to the informant, García Beltrán “stated that after burying his brother, he will go out to kill two policemen, because the police killed one of them, but he is going to kill two.”
The letter was addressed to the coordinator of the Puerto Rico Police Intelligence and Arrests Bureau, Olvin Aulet Mal Donado, and the director of the Criminal Intelligence Division of the Bureau of Intelligence and Arrests of the Bayamón Area, Lieutenant Agustín Crespo Colón.
Obed García Beltrán had been arrested for violating the Substances Law Controlled in June of 2021 in the residential area of Alturas de Cupey in Trujillo Alto, a municipality near San Juan.
There was also an arrest warrant against García for not appearing at a judicial hearing that the Police did not detail.
The other person who died in the confrontation with the security forces was Jonathan Miguel Martínez Rodríguez, aged 30 years old.
Martínez, for his part, had been accused of violating the Controlled Substances Law, whose hearing was supposed to be seen on Tuesday in the San Juan Court.
Furthermore, he was linked to a attempted “carjacking” (vehicle robbery at gunpoint) to a motorcyclist in Guaynabo, a neighboring municipality of l to the capital, last 27 May.