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02-23-2009, 01:00 PM
On Saturday, Judge Rene del Rosario of the Santo Domingo court ordered a one-year preventive jail term for Air Force Major Jorge Luis Vargas Cuello, Air Force Sergeant Carlos Santana Camacho and civilian Roberto Carlos Concepcion Comas (Marcos Comas), the three men currently accused of the raid on the Parmalat premises last week. The case against them was heard on Saturday afternoon.
Santana Camacho says he only became involved after Vargas Cuello called him and asked him to remove a shotgun and revolver from his house and did so, storing them at the house of police Sergeant Bernarda (Leonarda) Colon, who is not implicated in the case.
Mayor Jorge Luis Vargas Cuello said that he was in the vicinity at the time of the robbery when he received a call from Comas asking him to pick him up in his vehicle because a motorcycle belonging to him that Comas had taken for a test drive with the intention of possibly buying it had broken down. He said that after putting the motorcycle on his pick-up they drove along for a short distance before being intercepted by a Police patrol that shot at their feet and later took them to the Dario Contreras Public Hospital.
A patrol from the Villa Duarte police station detained the pair and recovered three guns, Carandai, Glock and Jericho, 9mm caliber, a Nissan Frontier pick-up truck with official license plate, a Harley Davidson motorcycle and four cellphones, as reported in El Caribe.
The assailants entered the Parmalat premises under the guise of a National Drug Control Department operation, wearing uniforms with the DNCD logo. They were even accompanied by two rottweiler dogs.
The DNCD later said that they do not have rottweilers in their dog force.

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