Santo Domingo.- Puerto Rico Police Superintendent Jose E. Figueroa Sancha affirmed Wednesday that it’s too early to say that the murder convict Jose Figueroa Agosto’s “tentacles” reach prominent figures in Dominican Republic and in that island, a reversal of his statement to local media when he arrived in Santo Domingo on Monday.

“People suit and tie in Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic are trembling with fear,” Figueroa Sancha said in Santo Domingo. “Those outside the law must be trembling and we sent them a loud clear message that regardless where they are, this work team will be there to catch them.”

But upon returning to San Juan the Puerto Rican official seemed to paraphrase the tongue twister, “I didn’t say what I said when I think I said it,” to describe his first statement.

“That’s very premature information. We must await a full investigation by the authorities. It’s very early to be saying that, here or in Dominican Republic,” he told the Puerto Rico newspaper Primera Hora.