The Police have announced the arrest of Santos Bautista (Julito Kilo) who has been presented by the Police on numerous occasions as the head of a dangerous gang of contract killers to whom the Police attributes the death of at least seven people in the eastern region. He was arrested in San Pedro de Macoris. He had been sent to justice in October 2012 for the murder of Juan Gabriel Salas Polanco, but the judge released him on bail. He is accused of killing at least three people in September 2013 and injuring one other. In 2013 he was accused of killing Luis Alberto de los Santos Marte (Cama Larga) in San Pedro de Macoris, who he suspected was working for a rival contract killer group.
He is also suspected of involvement in the death of Abel Oller in 2011, Juan Gabriel Salas Polanco (Tetelo), Nicolas Salas Polanco (Tono), Pedro Feliciano Dominguez (Negro), Ricardo de Jesus Sierra (Rico) and Francisco Jose Peralta. He is accused of injuring more than five people. Police spokesman Mateo Moquete says that Julito Kilo served drug traffickers by carrying out debt collections for drug transactions. He also received shipments of drugs in high seas and on land.
El Dia reports today that the violence is due to the struggles for the predominance of the eastern area now that Jose David Figueroa Agosto and Antonio del Rosario Puente are held in jail in Puerto Rico.