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12-19-2006, 03:50 PM
State prosecutors will appeal the decision of Judge Jose Duverge Mejia who chose to set bail for RD$100,000 for Puerto Rican Jose Antonio David Colon, and Dominicans Federico Castillo Papua, Edickson Javier Maria and Francisco Amaury Simon, requiring only that these come before the adjunct prosecutor Isidro Vasquez Pena on Fridays. The Coordinator of the Department of Investigations of Trafficking and Consumption of Drugs of the National District Prosecution Office, Gustavo de los Santos Coll feels the group would become fugitive of the law.
Following the appeal, the foursome were not released from jail. They had been arrested during an operation in which 340 packages of pure cocaine (388 kilos) estimated at US$10 million were confiscated at the Club Gallistico el 32 cockfighting club on 14 December near Villa Altagracia. They claim innocence. Roberto Lebron, spokesman for the National Department for the Control of Drugs (DNCD) said that while judges' decisions are theirs to make, in this case there is definitive proof of the foursome's complicity.
Hoy newspaper reported today that Dannerys Encarnacion Medina, the owner of the cockfighting club where the cocaine was found had been sent to justice in 2002 for another 400 kilos found on his property. Encarnacion, along with Colombian Giovanni Rafael Vega Vergara and Jose Ramon and Wady Basora, are also implicated in this case.
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Following the appeal, the foursome were not released from jail. They had been arrested during an operation in which 340 packages of pure cocaine (388 kilos) estimated at US$10 million were confiscated at the Club Gallistico el 32 cockfighting club on 14 December near Villa Altagracia. They claim innocence. Roberto Lebron, spokesman for the National Department for the Control of Drugs (DNCD) said that while judges' decisions are theirs to make, in this case there is definitive proof of the foursome's complicity.
Hoy newspaper reported today that Dannerys Encarnacion Medina, the owner of the cockfighting club where the cocaine was found had been sent to justice in 2002 for another 400 kilos found on his property. Encarnacion, along with Colombian Giovanni Rafael Vega Vergara and Jose Ramon and Wady Basora, are also implicated in this case.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#10)