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05-12-2009, 07:20 PM
Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morganthau announced yesterday that 25 charges had been filed against four Dominicans who allegedly killed five people in the DR and engaged in international drug trafficking for several years with New York as their center of operations. The Manhattan DA identified the accused as Dominicans Rafael Alvarez, Wander Espinal, Danny Joel Rodriguez and Carlos Hilario. The charges include murder, conspiracy, money laundering, and conspiracy to distribute cocaine in New York.
Diario Libre reported that Morganthau added that the accused had paid several contract killers to murder five other Dominicans in Santiago de los Caballeros and San Francisco de Macoris with the aim of consolidating their criminal ties with drug traffickers and eliminating their rivals.
All the men were in the United States without legal documentation, he added at the press conference.
An immigration officer said that the arrested men are being held in local jails but after they served their time "they would be given papers and deported." The officer added that, "this, obviously, will take quite a few years."
If Alvarez and Espinal are found guilty, they face up to 20 years in jail and possibly life in prison. Rodriguez and Hilario could be sentenced to between one and 20 years each. During the press conference, details of some of the assassinations allegedly committed by the four accused Dominicans were given to the press.
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Diario Libre reported that Morganthau added that the accused had paid several contract killers to murder five other Dominicans in Santiago de los Caballeros and San Francisco de Macoris with the aim of consolidating their criminal ties with drug traffickers and eliminating their rivals.
All the men were in the United States without legal documentation, he added at the press conference.
An immigration officer said that the arrested men are being held in local jails but after they served their time "they would be given papers and deported." The officer added that, "this, obviously, will take quite a few years."
If Alvarez and Espinal are found guilty, they face up to 20 years in jail and possibly life in prison. Rodriguez and Hilario could be sentenced to between one and 20 years each. During the press conference, details of some of the assassinations allegedly committed by the four accused Dominicans were given to the press.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#11)