DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

The Public Prosecutor’s Office issued an arrest order against the former head of the “Canódromo El Coco” Vehicle Retention Center, Police Colonel Ysabelita de los Santos Pérez, and six other subordinates. These are accused of committing a cybercrime when they deleted information from a cell phone of a reporter of the Listin Diario newspaper.

In addition to De los Santos Perez, National District Public Prosecutor Santa Matilde Reyes Valenzuela accuses police officials Geraldina de los Santos, Marisol Vargas, Javier Natanael, Starling Antonio Ramirez Sierra, Ronny Recio Rosario and Carlos O. Borque Paulino Braulio Perez in the same case.

The prosecutor says there is sufficient evidence to reasonably sustain that the accused are authors or accomplices of violating articles 60, 224, 309 of the Dominican Penal Code, articles 3 and 4 and 27 of Law 19-01...