Former National Police, Fernando de los Santos (La Soga), was arrested at dawn of Wednesday, 1 November 2017, in Santiago.
The announcement was made by the spokesman of the Cibao Central Regional Office in Santiago, Colonel Juan Guzmán Badia, who added that he would be brought to Santiago.
“La Soga” is accused of having participated in around 30 contract killings and several other crimes and has been hunted by the Police since 2011. He was also sought by the Interpol. He deserted from the Police in 2011 after he was suspect of being involved in a series of murders in Santiago, when several of the bodies were found in the Tavera Dam weighted down by cement blocks tied to their feet.
He is also accused of having received 250,000 pesos from two businessmen who paid him to kill two men in Libertad in Santiago. The businessmen were sent to jail for one year preventive custody, and the bodies of the victims were found shot at the dam at Tavera Bao.
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Diario Libre
2 November 2017
