Mar. 16, 2025
The U.S. State Department has confirmed that there are nowfour American touristswho have recently died while on vacation in the Domincan Republic, which has prompted anFBI investigationinto the mystery.
Robert Bell Wallace, 67, died in April while staying at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino resort in Punta Cana. His niece, Chloe Arnold,told Fox Newsthat he became ill after having a drink from the his hotel room’s minibar. He was in the country to attend his stepson’s wedding.
Mar. 16, 2025
Police in the Dominican Republic have arrested six men in connection withthe strangulation death last week of a 63-year-old Michigan womanwho’d moved to the island nation 15 years ago to work as a Montessori school teacher.A seventh individual is being sought, according to a statement from the Dominican Republic National Police.The arrests were announced Sunday, five days after the body of Patricia “Patty” Anton was found dead — bound and gagged, facedown on her bed — in her home in the district of Cabarete, in Puerto Plata.
Mar. 16, 2025
According to local reports, Patricia “Patty” Anton was found dead in her home in the Dominican Republic on Tuesday — bound and gagged, facedown on her bed.
Lopez DorigareportsAnton died of strangulation asphyxiation during a robbery of her home.
Several electronic items and other valuables were taken from the home, located in the district of Cabarete, in Puerto Plata,according to Noticia.do. Clothing was also found missing, reports indicate.
Police are not sure if her killing was the work of one or multiple suspects.
Mar. 16, 2025
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An American teenager and her boyfriend from the Cayman Islands have been sentenced to four months in prison for flouting the Caribbean island’s strict Covid-19 quarantine requirement.
Skylar Mack, 18, a student from Loganville, Georgia, and Vanjae Ramgeet, 24, a professional jet ski racer from the Cayman Islands, received the sentence on Tuesday morning, after the island’s Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Patrick Moran, decided to appeal their original sentence of a $2,600 fine and 40 hours of community service each.
Mar. 16, 2025
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An American teenager and her boyfriend whobroke COVID-19 quarantine protocol in the Cayman Islandshave had their prison sentences reduced from four months to two.
According to the Cayman Islands government, Mack arrived on November 27, and was required to undergo a minimum 14-day quarantine-in-residence, per Caymanian Covid suppression guidelines. On November 29, Mack instead left her residence and removed her geo-fencing bracelet, which was tracking her location, in order to watch Ramgeet compete in a jet ski event.