According to Carlos Devers, DNCD spokesman, not only has the drug sales point where Bani Colonel Daniel Ramos Alvarez was killed been raided several times, but the man called Buche, (Rafael Antonio Diaz), has also been arrested several times.
The commission made up of the Police and the Public Prosecution Agency, investigating the death of Colonel Romas Alvarez, met on Monday, 14 January 2019, with the Bani Prosecutors to evaluate the conclusions of the investigation.
The commission is made up of the head of the Central Criminal Investigations Office (Dicrim), General Pablo Arturo Pujols; Police inspector, General Rafael Cabrera Sarita, and Héctor García Cuevas, director of Internal Affairs; prosecutor for the Appeal Court in San Cristobal, Jonathan Baró Gutiérrez, and head prosecutor for Peravia, Ángel Darío Tejeda Fabal. They say they will make their conclusions known to the public by the end of the week. Senator Wilton Guerrero has discredited the investigation, saying that two of the investigators are on the payroll of “Buche.”
Meanwhile, the court in Peravia was expected to announce coercive measures against the three men arrested for the murder of the Colonel which happened on 8 January 201. The Public prosecution service are asking for 18 months on remand for Rafael Antonio Díaz (Buche); Luis Miguel Santana (Walter Antonio Moreta), and Steven Ruiz. They also requested that the case be declared complex, to allow more time to conduct the investigation.
However, the hearing was postponed until 18 January 2019, as the lawyers for the accused said they did not have time to examine the case file. They requested Judge, Rosaura Garabito delay the hearing in order to allow them to prepare a stronger defense.
Also under investigation for the crime are a Lieutenant Colonel and a Captain who were with the Colonel at the time of his death, as well as ten members of Buches’s gang who are on the run.
Meanwhile, Jesus Peña, who identified himself as a brother to Rafael Antonio Diaz (Buche), arrested in the murder of Police colonel Daniel Ramos Alvarez in Baní, says his brother was not at the site at the time of the murder and blames the drug trafficking competition of trying to eliminate that sales point in order to keep the business for themselves. He said drug sales in that area is the norm.
“Here there is competition regarding the points. My brother’s point is the best here in Baní. At the time, the others planned to kill the colonel at the point to involve my brother and eliminate the point,” explained Buche’s brother. Buche is described by his relatives as the owner of the leading drug sales point in Baní.
Peña argued that police officers Marcelino Arias and Leonardo Brazobán, who were accompanying the officer when he was killed, should be investigated, because according to him, they took Ramos there so he be executed.
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