Singer Martha Heredia received post-operative treatment in her cell in the Palace of Justice in Santiago, after her lawyer created an incident during the hearing that sought to order preventive measures against the artist, claiming that she should be treated in a private medical facility due to doctor’s orders.
Lawyer Felix Portes said that his client has improved considerably, so that it is in the hands of the court to establish a new date for the hearing on preventive custody. Felix Portes insisted in his statement that doctors at the medical center that carried out the plastic surgery were recommending that the artist should be hospitalized, but he did not want to identify either the place or the alleged doctor who signed the recommendation.
Heredia was arrested last week at Santiago international airport prior to boarding a flight to New York. Officers found illicit drugs hidden in her shoes. On Monday, 25 February DNCD chief Rolando Rosado Mateo said it was regrettable that Heredia had fallen into the trap of drug trafficking networks, as reported in El Caribe. News reports say that Heredia was arrested with 1.29 kilos of heroin.
www.elcaribe.com.do/2013/02/25/jefe-dncd-lamenta-martha-cayera-red-del-narcotrafico