1999News

Another FAD officer arrested in Narcisazo case

The judge in charge of the investigation into the 1994 disappearance (and presumed murder) of Professor Narciso Gonz?lez ("Narcisazo") yesterday ordered the arrest of a second Dominican Air Force (FAD) officer. Judge Eduardo S?nchez Ort?z ordered Lt. Colonel Manuel C. P?rez V?lquez jailed on suspicion of complicity in kidnapping Narcisazo. In 1994 P?rez V?lquez was an aide to General Rafael Reyes Bencosme, the first FAD officer put under arrest by Judge S?nchez Ort?z. Narcisazo, a vocal critic of then-President Joaqu?n Balaguer, was rumored to have been picked up by agents of FAD’s A-2 Intelligence group just before his disappearance, so the investigation has focused on FAD officials past and present.