A Barahona court sent four accused in a drug trafficking case to preventive custody.
Police agent Cherilyn Suero Medina, daughter of the suspended head of Police Internal Affairs in Barahona, and her husband Jonathan Andres Perez were sent to preventive custody for a year. Others the Barahona judge sent to await the trial in jail are police agent Wellington Ferreras and civilian Jorge Luis Diaz. They are sent to serve preventive custody at the Barahona jail. Suero Medina will wait trial in the Baní Mujeres Correction and Rehabilitation Jail.
The four are accused of kidnapping National Police corporal Esteban Armando Feliz Batista, alias Chatica. Feliz Batista’s kidnappers had demanded two million pesos; however, a cousin of alias Chatica only paid RD$1,745,000. The situation came to the open when Feliz Batista said it all.
The kidnapping of Chatica took place on 3 November 2021, when those involved allegedly attempted to force him to hand over the money he had obtained from his part in the sale of a 400 kilos shipment of cocaine which he and 13 other members of the institution stole from drug traffickers on 28 August in the early hours of the morning on the coasts of Las Salinas de Villa Central, Barahona. They seized the shipment but did not turn this over to the drug control authorities and instead distributed the spoils among themselves for resale. The whereabouts of 200 kilos has not been established.
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30 November 2021