Lawyers and family of Retired General Luis Santiago Pérez, brutally clobbered to death by a gang Partido de la Liberación Dominicana militants, denied that the later was under the effects of marijuana as his autopsy has shown. They say that Dr. Sergio Sarita Valdez, chief of the government forensic department, and deputy Minister of Health, revelation is part of a plan to discredit the late Air Force pilot, to reduce the responsibility of those incriminated. Family lawyer Marino Mendoza commented that Dr. Valdez is a member of the influential PLD central committee. Dr. Sergio Sarita Valdez said 27.7 nanigrams of marijuana per liter were found in the general’s blood. Remains of marijuana will show up for several weeks after consumption. Family members say the defense lawyers and the PLD want the case to go on and on so that those that are guilty not suffer punishment. They complained that first he was physically killed and now the party wants to morally kill him. His wife of 20 years, Rafaela Pérez said that the pilot didn’t even smoke cigarettes.
