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12-22-2008, 06:30 PM
The sole survivor of the Paya massacre, Orin Clinton Gomez, has been sentenced to a year in preventive custody on charges of suspected people smuggling. Judge Mariano Abreu rejected charges of his complicity in drug trafficking on the grounds there was not sufficient evidence to incriminate him on those charges. According to news reports, Gomez had told the authorities he brought three of the seven Colombians who were murdered in Paya by boat to Bani and later took back the cash for the smuggled drugs. The murder took place in a farm in Bani on 4 August. Gomez survived because he was able to play dead. Seven people have been arrested, 13 of them Navy officers, according to El Caribe. Police say the murders, which are still under investigation were due to a dispute over the reported 1,200 kilos of cocaine drug shipment. Orin Gomez stood for trial after five and a half months in the hospital recovering from bullet wounds received.
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