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09-12-2008, 06:30 PM
Martin Sterling Villalon, son of Senator Noe Sterling Vasquez (Barahona-PRSC) posted RD$1 million bail and must report to a judge every Monday as part of his bail conditions. Prosecutors have also brought charges against Kelvin Santana, while Domingo Marmolejos was sent to jail for18 months in preventive custody. According to reports, officials were able to connect Sterling to the 4 August massacre in Bani because of phone records. Senator Noe Sterling Vasquez is defending his son's innocence, saying the reason there was a registered call was because the drug traffickers wanted to rent a boat from his son, and that his son refused.
At the court yesterday, the senator said that the case against his son "had been prepared to protect those they know committed the killing," as reported in the Listin Diario. He said his son is a victim of "a cover up to protect military and high-ranking police that are involved in drug trafficking."
The National Police is also denying that Gonzalez was ever a police officer, explaining that at one point he was a cadet, but was released after his first year. In related news, Diario Libre is reporting that one of the men investigated for the Bani massacre has been found dead. The body of Spanish national Adolfo Justo Cervantes Areyena was found with nine shotgun wounds. Adding another twist to the case is the revelation that Cervantes had been investigated for the brutal murder of DNCD officer Guillermo Tejada Krawinkle. Tejada was shot in the head as he was coming out of a barbershop in San Cristobal. No one has been arrested in this murder.
Police have investigated a total of 161 people in relation to this case, 31 of them in the last 72 hours. Also, 13 people have been sent to jail, charges have been brought against 12 people and officials have announced 63 raids on different homes and establishments. The murder of the seven men has awoken a sleeping giant in the DR with open accusations of complicity of the authorities with drug dealers. Peravia Senator Wilton Guerrero has been openly critical of the authorities, risking his own personal safety by naming and alleging the participation of many high-ranking officials.
Senator Guerrero feels that there is still complicity between the authorities and the criminals. In an interview with investigative TV journalist Nuria Piera, he said that the country's chief prosecutor Radhames Jimenez Pena "is so good, he is not good for anything."
Watch the interview with Wilton Guerrero at www.nuria.com.do (http://www.nuria.com.do)
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At the court yesterday, the senator said that the case against his son "had been prepared to protect those they know committed the killing," as reported in the Listin Diario. He said his son is a victim of "a cover up to protect military and high-ranking police that are involved in drug trafficking."
The National Police is also denying that Gonzalez was ever a police officer, explaining that at one point he was a cadet, but was released after his first year. In related news, Diario Libre is reporting that one of the men investigated for the Bani massacre has been found dead. The body of Spanish national Adolfo Justo Cervantes Areyena was found with nine shotgun wounds. Adding another twist to the case is the revelation that Cervantes had been investigated for the brutal murder of DNCD officer Guillermo Tejada Krawinkle. Tejada was shot in the head as he was coming out of a barbershop in San Cristobal. No one has been arrested in this murder.
Police have investigated a total of 161 people in relation to this case, 31 of them in the last 72 hours. Also, 13 people have been sent to jail, charges have been brought against 12 people and officials have announced 63 raids on different homes and establishments. The murder of the seven men has awoken a sleeping giant in the DR with open accusations of complicity of the authorities with drug dealers. Peravia Senator Wilton Guerrero has been openly critical of the authorities, risking his own personal safety by naming and alleging the participation of many high-ranking officials.
Senator Guerrero feels that there is still complicity between the authorities and the criminals. In an interview with investigative TV journalist Nuria Piera, he said that the country's chief prosecutor Radhames Jimenez Pena "is so good, he is not good for anything."
Watch the interview with Wilton Guerrero at www.nuria.com.do (http://www.nuria.com.do)
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#14)