The Justice Ministry filed a request for coercive measures against four of the nine people under arrest for their ties to the network of drug trafficker César Emilio Peralta, better known as “César El Abusador” (César the Abuser).
The Judicial Office of Permanent Attention Services of the National District is asked to impose a year of pre-trial detention and the declaration of a complex case due to the number of defendants and the plurality of infractions they would have committed, in order to be able to carry out an exhaustive investigation and obtain more evidence to structure a strong case.
The request is for pre-trial custody against former Major League Baseball player Octavio Eduardo Dotel Diaz, Jose Bernabé Quitero, Obispo Feliz Lorenzo and Roberto Jose Caceres, arrested in the start of the case in local justice. The court set the hearing for Monday, 26 August 2019.
The accusations include drug trafficking, laundering of assets from illicit drug trafficking, and possession and use of firearms.
The director of communications for the Attorney General Office, Julieta Tejeda says a red alert has been placed globally for the capture of Cesar Emilio Peralta and his wife Marisol Mercedes Franco, among others sought in this case. The chief of the National Investigations Department (DNI), the local FBI, says that he could not tell if these have left the country because the investigations are up to the Attorney General Office.
A report in the Monday, 26 August issue of El Día says that César Emilio Peralta had another identity. He is also Eduardo Saldaña Rodríguez.
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26 August 2019