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07-20-2011, 06:40 PM
National Drug Control Department chief Major General Rolando Rosado Mateo has told reporters that entire families are now involved in the drug business as a way of life. The general was not kind to the justice system as he said that this is the result of the poor message that judges are sending offenders by freeing people brought up on drug charges despite the evidence presented. He added that in the end, this also undermines the strength and energy of the law enforcement agents. He was forthright in his comments to El Caribe reporters, saying: "If the big drug dealers have a revolving door and the medium-sized ones also, those down the line have to follow the example of what they are seeing, and what we are seeing is a production of these families whose members are involved in the sale and distribution of drugs."
The general gave examples of families in the National District and Salcedo, who use the youngest members of the family for deliveries. He mentioned specifically the family of Tonton Simeon, four brothers and sisters and two children who have all been arrested on more than one occasion.
Referring to this and other cases, including the one involving the accused member of the Cibao Cartel Nadim Bezi, recently released from custody by a judge in Samana, Rosado Mateo was energetic yet revealed a feeling of impotence when he talked about the Penal Process Code and its weaknesses in fighting drugs and drug trafficking.
He said that one family was caught "in flagrante delicto", which is covered under the code, and the man had drugs on him, the woman had the house full of drugs and the judge let them go because there was no prosecutor present during the arrest. Rosado Mateo mentioned article 224 of the Code which allows the Police to make arrests 'in flagrante delicto', but the judge ignored this. He mentioned several other cases during a luncheon meeting with El Caribe reporters, including the case of the Colombian Juan Reinaldo Ramirez Rendon, caught with 450 kilos of cocaine in 2008 and sent to 20 years in jail, but the sentence was changed by a judge some months later. In 2010, the same person was caught with 100 kilos of cocaine and a judge set him free on bail.
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The general gave examples of families in the National District and Salcedo, who use the youngest members of the family for deliveries. He mentioned specifically the family of Tonton Simeon, four brothers and sisters and two children who have all been arrested on more than one occasion.
Referring to this and other cases, including the one involving the accused member of the Cibao Cartel Nadim Bezi, recently released from custody by a judge in Samana, Rosado Mateo was energetic yet revealed a feeling of impotence when he talked about the Penal Process Code and its weaknesses in fighting drugs and drug trafficking.
He said that one family was caught "in flagrante delicto", which is covered under the code, and the man had drugs on him, the woman had the house full of drugs and the judge let them go because there was no prosecutor present during the arrest. Rosado Mateo mentioned article 224 of the Code which allows the Police to make arrests 'in flagrante delicto', but the judge ignored this. He mentioned several other cases during a luncheon meeting with El Caribe reporters, including the case of the Colombian Juan Reinaldo Ramirez Rendon, caught with 450 kilos of cocaine in 2008 and sent to 20 years in jail, but the sentence was changed by a judge some months later. In 2010, the same person was caught with 100 kilos of cocaine and a judge set him free on bail.
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