Criticism for judge who discharged drug case

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National District DA Alejandro Moscoso Segarra has criticized the judge who discharged a man who had been deported from the United States after serving time for drug trafficking charges, and who had allegedly become a repeat offender for the same crime in this country. The official told Diario Libre reporters that this magistrate ordered the release on bail for three others who were implicated in drug trafficking, one of whom has charges pending in connection with the discovery of 35 kilograms of cocaine in the province of Santo Domingo. Moscoso Segarra said he was worried by the decision of the judge of the Fourth Court of Instruction, Delio German. The person favored by the case dismissal was Miguel Angel Valdez Vega. Meanwhile, bail was set at RD$2 million for Christian Andres Garcia Astacio, who also has a case pending regarding 33 kilos of cocaine in the province of Santo Domingo, and Manuel Emilio Santana Sanchez, who was deported from the US after serving five years for drug trafficking. The fourth person is Eric Santana. Moscoso Segarra told reporters that on 15 October 2008, the group was caught with six packages of cocaine that weighed 2.06 kilograms in the back seat of an SUV they were driving. The DA lamented the fact that the magistrate changed the request for a remand to custody to bail for people who are repeat drug trafficking offenders. He said, "I think that this sends the wrong message about the fight against organized crime."

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