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11-03-2008, 03:00 PM
Magistrates of the Penal Chamber of the Appeals Court in Barahona have ratified a 20-year sentence for a Venezuelan citizen found guilty of violating Law 20-88 on Drugs and Controlled Substances. The judges sentenced Cristian Jose Gonzalez Gonzalez, 37, who is currently in the local jail. The foreigner was found guilty of trafficking 62.5 kilograms of cocaine when he was arrested by members of the Southern Division of the National Drug Control Department (DNCD). The arrest took place on 21 November 2007 near the Martin Garcia Mountain in El Curro, where the drugs had been brought in by a boat that was confiscated by the DNCD. The Appeals Court assistant prosecutor Israel Trinidad had requested confirmation of the lower court's decision. The Appeals Court panel of magistrates was composed of Joselin Moreta Carrasco, Domitilio Ferreras Medina and Luis Alberto Dias de la Cruz. Gonzalez was also ordered to pay a RD$250,000 fine.
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