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03-10-2010, 03:40 PM
Puerto Rican press is carrying reports on the higher up Puerto Rican government officers with ties to fugitive drug baron Jose Figueroa Agosto. According to El Tiempo, congressman Antonio Silva, former mayor of Bayamon Ramon Luis Rivera, Bayamon mayor Ramon Luis Rivera Cruz, and former congressman Carlos Lopez Nieves defended their efforts to secure a government pardon for Figueroa Agosto. Also speaking up in his favor were former mayor of Toa Baya Angel Rodriguez and former congressman Manuel Marrero Hueca. All these sent letters to Governor Pedro Rossello seeking the pardon.
In 1995, Figueroa Agosto was sentenced to 209 years in jail for the kidnapping and murder of Edgar Martine (Nandy El Gruero) who he accused of stealing a cocaine shipment property of a Colombian cartel.
Rossello did not pardon Figueroa, and in 1999 he escaped to the DR after presenting a false release order at the jail.
El Tiempo reports how subsequently he lived for 10 years in the DR where, according to the authorities, he organized an empire for the importing of cocaine from Colombia, Venezuela and Mexico to the DR, the US and Puerto Rico.
According to El Nuevo Dia, the Puerto Rican authorities consider him the leading drug trafficker in the region and that he is hiding in Puerto Rico, where he escaped to when local authorities sought to capture him.
The newspaper comments that the father of Figueroa Agosto is a PNP activist in Puerto Rico and used his political contacts to favor of his son.
http://www.elnuevodia.com/politicosayudaronaciegas-683505.html
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In 1995, Figueroa Agosto was sentenced to 209 years in jail for the kidnapping and murder of Edgar Martine (Nandy El Gruero) who he accused of stealing a cocaine shipment property of a Colombian cartel.
Rossello did not pardon Figueroa, and in 1999 he escaped to the DR after presenting a false release order at the jail.
El Tiempo reports how subsequently he lived for 10 years in the DR where, according to the authorities, he organized an empire for the importing of cocaine from Colombia, Venezuela and Mexico to the DR, the US and Puerto Rico.
According to El Nuevo Dia, the Puerto Rican authorities consider him the leading drug trafficker in the region and that he is hiding in Puerto Rico, where he escaped to when local authorities sought to capture him.
The newspaper comments that the father of Figueroa Agosto is a PNP activist in Puerto Rico and used his political contacts to favor of his son.
http://www.elnuevodia.com/politicosayudaronaciegas-683505.html
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#13)