Benign drug bail revoked

[NewsWhore]

The First Penal Chamber of Appeals has revoked a decision by Judge Jose Mejia Duverge that authorized RD$100,000 bail for four people accused of cocaine trafficking. The group of four, that includes a Puerto Rican, was arrested when 388 kilos of cocaine were discovered in an operation at a cockfighting club at Km. 32 of the Duarte Highway on 14 December. Appeal court judges Olga Herrera, Enrique Marchena and Carmen Fortuna revoked the authorization on the grounds that there was too much evidence against Federico Castillo de Padua, Edicson Javier Maria, Francisco Amaury Simon and Puerto Rican Jose Antonio David Colon, who were being kept at the Drug Control Department jail, but now will be sent to the La Victoria penitentiary. The District Attorney's office had appealed against the judge decision.

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