14 highway leading to El Salvador, no operation had been ordered by the "INAFOR" [National Forestry Institute], "DIGESEPE" [Department of Cattle Services] or any other State body. 3) The aforementioned white van had, days before it was detained, been driven without registration plates or any identifying documentation. 4) Some of the six MEMBERS OF THE TREASURY POLICE inside the detained white van were recognized as perpetrators of criminal acts. 5) The statements of the six members of the Treasury Police seriously contradicted one another as to their reason for being in the white van at the spot where the vehicle was detained. 6) Some of the six members of the Treasury Police perjured themselves by saying that it was the first time they had gone out on operations in the white van. 7) The six members of the Treasury Police contradicted one another, some saying that they had carried out an operation and others saying that they had not. They did not even know what kind of barriers or signals should be used. 8) CÉSAR AUGUSTO GUERRA-RAMÍREZ, a member of the Treasury Police who was inside the captured white van, stated that some members of the Treasury Police Department used knives or razors as part of their equipment. 9) The corpses of five of the six persons kidnapped and later killed showed knife wounds as the cause of death. 10) Some members of the Treasury Police were recognized as having made arrests in civilian or sports clothes. 11) After making arrests, members of the Treasury Police tortured their detainees and robbed them of valuables. 12) Both the white FORD ECONOLINE 350 van with tinted windows and the beige CHEVROLET CHEVI VAN 20 with brown stripes, now painted brown by the Treasury Police, had been unlawfully obtained by that Institution, having been taken from the storage where they were kept. 13) The white FORD ECONOLINE 350 van with tinted windows had entered Guatemalan territory with clear glass which had been tinted by the Treasury Police for reasons unknown. 14) Both the white and the beige van, now painted brown, had transported a large amount of merchandise to the Tecúm Umán customs post in Guatemala with an unknown destination. 15) The Treasury Police Department has been illegally using fourteen registration plates belonging to private citizens, including two foreign plates, as seen in the Reserve Guard log. 16) The Treasury Police said that, owing to an oversight, the white van had no rear registration plate on March 10, 1988; but that vehicle was also photographed on March 8, 1988, by the SECOND INTELLIGENCE SECTION OF THE MINISTRY OF DEFENSE in the vicinity of the Treasury Police without a rear registration plate. 17) It is untrue that the Treasury Police detained vehicles at the place where they had been detained in the white van since the three arrests indicated were made by different Treasury Police than those detained at kilometer 12 and 1/2 on the El Salvador highway, and had taken place in Zone 10 of the city. 18) The Treasury Police states that the beige CHEVROLET CHEVY VAN 20 was not used in its operations, but that is untrue because in the log the vehicle appears as having gone out on operations after it had been painted brown to hide its original color. 19) The white NISSAN CHERRY VANETTE minibus, registration number P-89324, property of AUTORENTAS, S.A., was also used by the Treasury Police and was involved in the abduction of one of the six murder victims, as appears in the log.