Najayo inmate Sobeida Felix Morel, former lover of the Puerto Rican capo Jose David Figueroa Agosto, is asking a judge to grant her parole today, Wednesday 26 December. She is accused of drug trafficking and money laundering. The judge for the Execution of the Sentence for San Cristobal, Jose Ignacio Medrano, will hear the petition written by her lawyer Felix Humberto Portes this morning. Felix Morel was sentenced to serve five years and pay a fine of 50 minimum salaries, after pleading guilty and arranging a plea bargain with the Justice Department, after she was returned to the Dominican Republic from Puerto Rico where she fled after skipping bail to follow her lover to Puerto Rico when his operations in the Dominican Republic were exposed.
Attorney General Francisco Dominguez Brito and the District Attorney for the National District, Yeni Berenice Reynoso, have said that they are opposed to any parole for the prisoner. Dominguez Brito said that she has not served her sentence and that she does not qualify for parole due to the implications and the severity of the case. Reynoso added that two and a half years are ridiculous in relation to the accusations, besides the fact that she has not fulfilled the plea bargain.
In 2009 Santo Domingo judge Roxana Vasquez released Sobeida Feliz Morel, accused of involvement in the case of the US$4.6 million cash haul from a luxury SUV in Santo Domingo, on RD$5 million bail and exit ban and ordered her to report to the authorities at regular intervals.
Sobeida Feliz Morel had been arrested after she was found to be in possession of the keys to the vehicle, which was owned by Puerto Rican Jose Figueroa Agosto, the suspected drug trafficker and fugitive from justice, who was later arrested in Puerto Rico and returned to jail.
After she was released on bail, she went into hiding. She was suspected of traveling to Puerto Rico to meet her lover, Figueroa Agosto who was also on the run. She gave herself in to the authorities in Puerto Rico on 18 July 2010 through a lawyer eight hours after the arrest of her lover, Jose Figueroa Agosto, considered the most wanted man involved in drug-trafficking charges. She subsequently returned to the Dominican Republic to stand for the court case against her in which she entered into a plea bargain with the authorities and was given the reduced sentence of 5 years.