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03-17-2010, 04:30 PM
Fugitive drug baron Jose David Figueroa has been mocking Dominican society and its institutions all along, but he has not been doing it alone, writes El Dia in an editorial today.
The newspaper comments on his "spectacular escapes" saying he has walked from two of these. "We can even say he left with guards that should have been keeping him in prison," writes the editorial. It recalls that he walked from the Puerto Rico jail on 5 November 1999, using a forged release order that was delivered to the jail wardens by a private messenger and accepted by these. It also recalls that in November 2001 in Santo Domingo, he was released by the National Drug Control Department agents, despite there being an extradition order in the name of Felipe Rodriguez de la Rosa, the fake identity he was using at the time.
The newspaper comments that when he fled the Puerto Rico jail he had been sentenced to 209 years in jail. "He could not be invisible and the jail wardens had to know this," writes the editorial. "Thus the forged release order was not more than a pretext to justify an action that undoubtedly had the support of his Puerto Rican accomplices."
Nevertheless, Figueroa Agosto abandoned the Puerto Rican jail at 7:30pm the evening of 5 November and no one said anything, writes the editorial.
"Eight months would go by before a special prosecutor would take notice and in June 2000 he was declared fugitive of justice, but no offers were undertaken to arrest him or those who helped him get away," wonders the editorial writer.
"That is mockery," it states.
It then brings the case to the DR, saying that it is well known that Figueroa Agosto enjoyed the protection of staff of the National Drug Control Department and the National Police in the DR. And no one has been arrested for that protection. More mockery," says the newspaper.
"We cannot be accomplices," it concludes.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#11)
The newspaper comments on his "spectacular escapes" saying he has walked from two of these. "We can even say he left with guards that should have been keeping him in prison," writes the editorial. It recalls that he walked from the Puerto Rico jail on 5 November 1999, using a forged release order that was delivered to the jail wardens by a private messenger and accepted by these. It also recalls that in November 2001 in Santo Domingo, he was released by the National Drug Control Department agents, despite there being an extradition order in the name of Felipe Rodriguez de la Rosa, the fake identity he was using at the time.
The newspaper comments that when he fled the Puerto Rico jail he had been sentenced to 209 years in jail. "He could not be invisible and the jail wardens had to know this," writes the editorial. "Thus the forged release order was not more than a pretext to justify an action that undoubtedly had the support of his Puerto Rican accomplices."
Nevertheless, Figueroa Agosto abandoned the Puerto Rican jail at 7:30pm the evening of 5 November and no one said anything, writes the editorial.
"Eight months would go by before a special prosecutor would take notice and in June 2000 he was declared fugitive of justice, but no offers were undertaken to arrest him or those who helped him get away," wonders the editorial writer.
"That is mockery," it states.
It then brings the case to the DR, saying that it is well known that Figueroa Agosto enjoyed the protection of staff of the National Drug Control Department and the National Police in the DR. And no one has been arrested for that protection. More mockery," says the newspaper.
"We cannot be accomplices," it concludes.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#11)