National Police: No more naming suspects until sure
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Santo Domingo. - The current National Police administration has discontinued the practice of naming as suspects people who’ve nothing to do with crimes, Police spokesman Jacobo Mateo affirmed Monday.
He said Police chief Manuel Castro will not tolerate such behavior, which had even been adopted by previous police administrations. “The mechanism applies whenever the police faced pressure with high levels of crime with important social implications.”
The official said in those cases the police often reported that X number of people had been taking into custody, but in an effort to prove that the "investigation advances" or "it’s at a good pace," were drawn into the habit of citing the names and addresses of people who were later found tht they had nothing to do with the case investigated.
“And as the police failed to clear them, then these people weren’t being sought, but public opinion continued to think they were still involved. This caused them moral damage which the law enforcement agency didn’t properly repair."
Agents seize 98 packages of cocaine from Dominican-Colombian ring
Santo Domingo.- The National Drugs Control Agency (DNCD) on Monday said it seized 98 packages of cocaine from a network of Dominicans and Colombians, in several raids in Boca Chica, and arrested three suspects.
It said Carlos de la Cruz Beato, 41, John Romeo Ogando, 46, and Alberto Domínguez, 39, who are being questioned at DNCD headquarters.
DNCD spokeswoman Jacqueline Lamarche said the network smuggled large drug shipments into the country in containers from South America.
De la Cruz said, Ogando and Dominguez were caught red-handed during a raid at the shopping plaza "Lubrigomas D. Campo" on Las Americas Highway corner Duarte street, La Caleta, Boca Chica, allegedly owned by De la Cruz.
Lamarche said when the agents arrived the three men were unloading 72 of the packages hidden in a compartment of the container SMLU78359145G1 and into a 2004Mitsubishi SUV, license plate G213191.
Dominican Republic’s biggest land fraud trial starts Oct. 7
Santo Domingo.- The National District Land Court will hear on October 7 the State’s request to void hundreds of allegedly bogus titles issued for the more than seven kilometers of beachfront at Bahia de las Aguilas.
Judge Alba Luisa Beard will preside over the first pretrial hearing in Dominican Republic’s biggest ever land fraud case, resulting from a land grab by political figures and business leaders in 1997.
According to Justice minister Francisco Dominguez, the titleholders had obtained the deeds fraudulently. "Bahia de las Aguilas is one of the country’s landmark cases, because it’s a very serious act of corruption, so serious that it has involved many political and professional players, which would jeopardize the community and the environment."
Dominguez assigned the case to the prosecutors Laura Acosta Lora and Roger Antonio Vittini.
Dozens of the deeds of the protected area don’t have the signature and official seal of the Barahona Titles registrar, Luis Ramirez Suberví.
Electoral court deals former President a major setback
Santo Domingo.- The Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE) early Tuesday ruled against a restraining order sought by a group of members of Dominican Republic’s main opposition party (PRD) who claimed they were arbitrarily excluded from the organization’s top echelon, the National Executive Committee (CEN).
The TSE’s justices retired to chambers at 10:20pm Monday to deliberate and when they returned after 1:00am, handed down for the faction of PRD president Miguel Vargas.
The restraining order requested by 178 PRD senior leaders claimed Vargas had violated their rights in order to form a CEN with a majority of his supporters.
The ruling is yet another blow against the PRD faction headed by former president who Hipolito Mejía, who was joined at the courtroom by senior leaders Milagros Ortiz Bosch, Ivelisse Prats, Andrés Bautista, Geanilda Vasquez, Janet Camilo, Tirso Mejía Ricart, among others.
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