I just need to let people know what can happen to you here in Sosua, DR.
I was walking alone on the street at 10pm, and a "cop" stopped me and demanded that I pay him 5000 pesos. He was on a moto concho, with no uniform or anything. He just had a card in his wallet that said he was Policia. When I refused, he took me to jail in Sosua. I was told I could go at 8am the next day. Instead I was taken to jail in Puerto Plata. Magically, there was a lawyer there waiting for me. He told me he could help me get out. Because I did not pay the "cop", I was accused of having drugs on me. I DID NOT!!!! The lawyers told me if I paid them $6000US, then I could go home, or else I was going to prison for my "crime". The lawyers tried for hours to get my wife to pay them, but we don't have that kind of money. I ended up spending 3 days and nights in jail, then 2 days and nights in prison. I was not fingerprinted or photographed, they did not ask for ID, I was brought in the prison through the back door...everyone was in on the scam. From the Lawyers, and the cops, and the judge, and the prosocutor, and the guards.....everyone! My wife had to pay a fine of $500 to the court, and had to pay the lawyers $2000 to get me out. Once she paid the lawyers the money outside the prison, the lawyer yelled out the window of his car, accross the street to the guard at the prison to "let the gringo go now". An hour later, I was out. In jail, I was beaten, starved, denied water, thrown **** at, faught with, denied phone calls...you name it.
One of the cops knew what had happened to me, that these charges were totally false, and he told me that "This IS the economy in the DR....this is how we make money."
I watched these corrupt lawyers divy up my money to the judge, guards, other lawyers. They were all laughing about it.
I couldn't believe that this could happen to a Canadian here on vacation. It was a nightmare that just got worse and worse everyday.
These lawyers names are ******** and ********. These 2 were the worst of the bunch. I can't believe that these people call themselves professionals.
Does anyone out there know if there is any way to report these god aweful people to the authorities? From my experience, any authority figure is just as corrupt as these lawyers are! Do I have any recourse at all??
Names removed but retained.
Gregg
Mod.
I was walking alone on the street at 10pm, and a "cop" stopped me and demanded that I pay him 5000 pesos. He was on a moto concho, with no uniform or anything. He just had a card in his wallet that said he was Policia. When I refused, he took me to jail in Sosua. I was told I could go at 8am the next day. Instead I was taken to jail in Puerto Plata. Magically, there was a lawyer there waiting for me. He told me he could help me get out. Because I did not pay the "cop", I was accused of having drugs on me. I DID NOT!!!! The lawyers told me if I paid them $6000US, then I could go home, or else I was going to prison for my "crime". The lawyers tried for hours to get my wife to pay them, but we don't have that kind of money. I ended up spending 3 days and nights in jail, then 2 days and nights in prison. I was not fingerprinted or photographed, they did not ask for ID, I was brought in the prison through the back door...everyone was in on the scam. From the Lawyers, and the cops, and the judge, and the prosocutor, and the guards.....everyone! My wife had to pay a fine of $500 to the court, and had to pay the lawyers $2000 to get me out. Once she paid the lawyers the money outside the prison, the lawyer yelled out the window of his car, accross the street to the guard at the prison to "let the gringo go now". An hour later, I was out. In jail, I was beaten, starved, denied water, thrown **** at, faught with, denied phone calls...you name it.
One of the cops knew what had happened to me, that these charges were totally false, and he told me that "This IS the economy in the DR....this is how we make money."
I watched these corrupt lawyers divy up my money to the judge, guards, other lawyers. They were all laughing about it.
I couldn't believe that this could happen to a Canadian here on vacation. It was a nightmare that just got worse and worse everyday.
These lawyers names are ******** and ********. These 2 were the worst of the bunch. I can't believe that these people call themselves professionals.
Does anyone out there know if there is any way to report these god aweful people to the authorities? From my experience, any authority figure is just as corrupt as these lawyers are! Do I have any recourse at all??
Names removed but retained.
Gregg
Mod.
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