The Attorney General has arrested three council members from the PRD party under a judge’s warrant that accuses the councilmen of falsifying documents, bigamy, and declaring adults as minors. The suspects from the municipal council of Yaguate, San Cristobal are Tomasina Isabel Araujo and Benito Rodriguez Nolasco, who are accused of bigamy and of sending their respective spouses to live in Europe. The last to be arrested was councilman Santiago Adames, from the municipal council of Guayabal, Azua, who is accused of marrying two women and of declaring before the registrar of his community that several adults were in fact minors, and thereby obtaining official passports for them. Adames was taken before the District Attorney a 6:45 last night. He was handed over to the authorities by PLD party official Andres Veloz Ramirez.
Attorney General Francisco Dominguez Brito told reporters from El Caribe that if necessary he “would fill up a baseball stadium” in order to get to the bottom of this case. This was in obvious response to a report in yesterday’s papers that one of the accused had asked the magistrate to halt the process, “because he would need a baseball stadium to accommodate all of those implicated.”