Among those who received Presidential pardons last month was the “King of Ecstasy”, Juan Carlos Ozuna, a convicted drug dealer sentenced to serve five years. According to Diario Libre, members of the pardons review committee said that several pardoned convicts were not screened by the committee and their pardons were therefore a surprise. Ozuna was condemned to serve five years after National Drug Control officers caught him with 30,000 thousand pills of the substance known as “E”. Readers will recall that one of the accused kidnappers of the two men from Nagua who were later killed was also excused from a 20-year sentence, just three days before the kidnapping occurred.