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Aug 5, 2005

…while Toledo thief sent up for 8

Meanwhile, a robbery in the Toledo District resulted in the guilty party being sent to jail for eight years. Twenty-six year old Pedro Botz of Jacinto Village admitted in court to stealing a total of twenty-two thousand dollars from businessman, Victor Hernandez. According to Hernandez, sometime on July thirty-first someone broke into his home and stole a bag containing the money. A subsequent investigation by police led them to Botz who was charged with burglary and handling stolen property. While police managed to recover six thousand dollars of the stolen loot, Botz told them that he sent the remainder of the money to Honduras.


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