The Attorney General’s Office requested a report on the situation that occurred last Saturday, 21 November 2020 with senator Ramon Antonio Pimentel (PRM-Montecristi) from their office in the province of Monte Cristi.
The request is in a letter signed by Deputy Attorney General Rafael Leonidas Suarez, responding to comments in the media on the alleged excess of power, cover-up, hindering the enforcement of the law against private citizens and the police in the town of Castañuelas, Montecristi.
The senator, who is better known as Moreno Arias, showed up at the National Police station in Castañuelas, Montecristi to demand in an authoritarian manner that a close friend of his [Richard Rivas Mendoza, alias Tibiche) who was under arrest be released. The senator insisted he had spoken with the Minister of the Interior and Police, Jesús (Chu) Vásquez.
After the scene went viral in a video circulating in social networks, Chu Vasquez denied having held a conversation with the legislator. The action by the senator has received widespread rejection by traditional and social media networks.
The senator went public to apologize, but then in a second apology said he was defending Rivas Mendoza because he had never been arrested before.
President Luis Abinader himself reacted, promoting the second lieutenant who had stood his ground and rejected releasing the arrested person despite the senator’s forceful demand. The policeman, Salvador Sánchez said he was merely complying with the law and would take the case to his superiors.
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El Dia (21:00)
24 November 2020