Philipsburg: --- Members of the detective department were seen searching the home of a tire shop owner believed to be the dead man that was found Friday after noon Over the Bank. SMN News learnt that the victim is Dionicio Pozo of the Dominican Republic and owner of a tire shop located across from old Sunny Food Supermarket on AT Illidge Road.Neighbors of Pozo said he has no immediate family living on St. Maarten. They said the man was seen last Sunday cleaning up his surroundings which is at the back of the tire shop on AT Illidge Road. On Sunday several detectives was seen by an SMN News reporter questioning bystanders and taking photographs of where the man used to live and operating his business. According to well placed sources the victim was found shackled in the bushes Over the Bank. In an invited comment on the man's identity Prosecutor Rienk Mud said he would neither confirm nor deny if the police have identified the victim.
In the meantime Police Spokesman Ricardo Henson said police still did not positively identified the victim. Henson said the prosecutor office as well as the detectives is still requesting the assistance of the public to positively identify the dead man. Henson said police have their suspicions as to who the victim might be however they still need a relative or close friend who might have specifics about the victim to identify him. Asked if police are in possession of the victim's passport and or identification card, and if that is not sufficient to identify the person. Henson said that even though they might be in possession of such documents, the photographs on the documents must match the victim. "In cases where the person's face is damaged then definitely someone has to identify the victim" Henson said.
On July 2 the body of Clemencia Jose-ann Julot was found in the bushes in Oyster Pond, she too was found with her hands tied. SMN News has been reliably informed that Julot had about 87 stabs wounds about her body, information which was not released to the media. So far police has not made any headway in finding the killers of Julot.
