DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

Attorney General Miriam German removed the La Victoria Jail warden Gilberto Nolasco and all administrative and police officials. She ordered that the Prison Agency’s recently appointed authorities intervene and take direct control of the jail as of 16 September 2020.

The announcement comes after it was known that the assault and subsequent murder of Ruddy Quezada, a Dominican who had won a deal in US jurisdiction for US$14 million in indemnity, was planned from that jail.Attorney General Germán met with Major General Edward Sánchez González of the Police on the removal of all the Police officers assigned to the jail.

Likewise, recently investigative journalist Nuria Piera presented a report by fellow journalist Eiron Lopez on sales of drugs in the jail with the complicity of the staff.

In a press release, the Attorney General Office indicates...