The Chief of Police, Antonio Segundo Imbert Tesson, has announced the arrest of four owners of video rental shops for possessing pirated copies of the successful Dominican film “Nueba Yol”, directed by Angel Muñiz. Genis Sanchez of “Video Exclusivo” in Santo Domingo, Julio de los Santos and Prospero Leandro Ruiz of an unidentified shop in La Romana and Juan Robles of “Video Extravaganza” in Higuey were detained in raids on their business premises. Major General Imbert Tesson also said that the distributors of the pirated videos, Hector Feliz Ruiz and a man known as “El Chino” or “El Muerto” are being sought by the police.
Nuebo Yol was the No. 1 film in the Dominican Republic for the better part of last year, and is now enjoying success in cinemas in Miami and New York.
8-14 March 1996