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10-11-2006, 06:40 PM
In a decision that is sure to create a stir, interim judge Rosanna Vasquez, the head of Santo Domingo's First Penal Court, has dismissed the charges against 37 high-ranking police officials, both active and retired, who had over 100 recovered vehicles in their possession. These vehicles had been reported stolen by their owners, recovered by police officers and then assigned to different officers in the upper echelon of the department. The Attorney General's office reserved the right to appeal against the verdict. Judge Vasquez said that the prosecutor did not present sufficient proof to support the accusations. Apparently, the main piece of evidence presented was a school notebook with nearly illegible details of the vehicles assigned to the officers. The former Chief of Police, Jaime Marte Martinez, who was among those accused, was referred to in the complaint as a "police colonel" rather than his current status as a private citizen.
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