The Justice Department has postponed until Wednesday of this week the hearing regarding coercive measures against several members of the National Police involved in the death of the fugitive Jorge Gabriel Baez Acosta that occurred last week in Villa Gonzalez, province of Santiago. Previously, the convicted criminal had escaped custody by feigning illness, and when he was taken to a local clinic in Nagua, he was whisked away by armed persons and disappeared.
Several members of the Police are suspected of complicity, including a Lt. Colonel. Several police agents were caught on a cell phone video as they shot at Baez Abreu. Two other persons died in the shootout.
Judge Cirilo Salomon, of the Court of Permanent Attention in Santiago, said that at the request of the lawyers representing the police officers he was postponing the hearing until the day after tomorrow.
The family of the deceased fugitive is calling for justice in the face of what they call a cold-blooded killing.
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El Nacional
7 January 2019
