[DR1] Colonel is jailed on murder rap

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After a series of insults, punches thrown, and slaps against the vehicle that transported Air Force colonel Pablo Leonel Velasquez to court, the magistrate kept the officer under arrest at the holding cells in Santo Domingo's Palace of Justice. The colonel was subjected to an interrogation session that lasted from 10:20 in the morning until 7:35 in the evening about his part in the murder of Major Jose Manuel Herran Mancebo last December. As reported in El Caribe, prosecutor Perfecto Acosta said that a decision was taken to leave the colonel in a holding cell at the Palace of Justice in accordance with the 24-hour prison warrant issued by the magistrate of the Third Court of Instruction, and today his office would seek further restraints on the officer. According to the prosecutor, "there is evidence that involves the colonel in the murder, which has the characteristics of a crime of passion." Because of the serious nature of the crime, the Justice Department will request the court to issue an order for preventive custody for the accused in order to preserve his personal safety.

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