20 years for smuggling deaths

[NewsWhore]

A tribunal in Dajabon has sentenced the principal culprits in the deaths by suffocation of 25 illegal Haitian immigrants in January 2006. The chief magistrate of the court, Martha Sanz Ferreira, imposed 20 years imprisonment and fines of 250 minimum salaries (approximately RD$900,000) on Elvis Rodriguez Ortiz and Esteban Martinez Rosario, the truck driver and his assistant. The vehicle left Dajabon with the illegal migrants sealed in the back of a closed cargo body. They were headed for Santiago, and the passengers had paid RD$2,500 each for the ill-fated trip. Army Sergeant Santos Pena Reyes and Private Stalin Martinez Rosario were sentenced to 10 years in prison for failure to perform their duties at different checkpoints along the highway to Santiago.

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