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Prosecutor Office Yet to Receive Pathologist Report for Parades---Case is not yet Cold---

Philipsburg:- Chief Prosecutor Taco Stein said he is yet to receive the pathologist report from the coroner who did the autopsy on Martin Parades; the garbage collector who died after he was slammed into the back of the garbage truck while working during the wee hours of the morning. The driver of the car is a reporter of the Today Newspaper who apparently fell asleep on the wheel after a long days work covering the Heineken Regatta and prize giving ceremony.
The accident which occurred on March 5th on Union Road Cole Bay around 4 am in the morning has sent the community into shock waves after it was reported the man’s injuries were two broken legs; and that one of the causes maybe that the man bled to death as he was laying on the road close to 45 minutes before ambulance personnel responded to scene as they opted to go over to Oyster Pond to transport a patient who fell ill that night to the St. Maarten Medical Center.
Also questioning is that the man when first taken to the medical institution did not receive the immediate and life saving care as there was a dispute at the hospital as to who would really shoulder the expenses incurred.
Stein who was asked by this reporter on numerous occasions what his office is doing about the case and if the case has gone cold, because of whom the driver maybe.
The chief prosecutor said that is far from the case, because to date he did not receive the coroners report and thought that the coroner would have brought along the report when she visited the island last week to conduct the autopsy of another murder victim. But that did not happen so he will be making some more calls to Curacao to see when that report would be made available. The chief prosecutor also said that he had requested a report from the St. Maarten Medical Center so that all speculations as to what took place at the hospital would be clarified. He said he was told the medical institution submitted their reports already but did so at the police station. That report he said is still to reach his desk. The island chief prosecutor said that he would need to touch base with the head of the detective department on Monday to see how quickly that report will be sent to him so that he can take a decision on the case. He promised that as soon as those reports are given to him he will contact this media house who has been following the case closely.

Still waiting Mr. Taco and Mr Velasquez!