2010 – Page 313

Freight hauler Ramon Antonio del Rosario (“Tono Lena), who is being sought by the authorities in connection with his alleged ties to the drug drops in the east of the country, and who has a police record for several murders, has denied any links to Puerto Rican drug baron Jose Figueroa Agosto, believed to be …

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Public Works Minister Victor Diaz Rua says that the overpasses under construction at John F. Kennedy with Nunez de Caceres avenues and on Dr. Defillo and Kennedy avenues (opposite TeleAntillas) will be ready by March, as reported in El Caribe. He also announced the start of construction of the north-south tunnel that will link Ortega …

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Doctors from the Children’s Hospital of Michigan have provided free health-restoring surgery for 13 children with heart problems at the Center for Advanced Medicine and Telemedicine (Cedimat) at Plaza de la Salud, a privately-run state hospital. The cost of the operations is estimated at US$50,000 each. The children were aged between 2 months and 13 …

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The Ministry of Interior and Police announces that it will shut down nightclubs that keep their clients’ weapons. Milka Terrero, deputy minister of Interior and Police said that Article 61 of Law 36 on Possession of Weapons establishes that nightclubs are not authorized to store their clients’ weapons. She said that guns are involved in …

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Today’s editorial in El Caribe newspaper criticizes the commission that is investigating Puerto Rican drug trafficking fugitive Jose David Figueroa Agosto for the entertainment slant that is being given to the story. “The stories about this sinister character’s sexual excesses will serve as morbid pleasures but do not contribute to the clarification of this unprecedented …

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During the presentation at the Melia Hotel, the commission investigating the Jose Figueroa Agosto case said that sisters Mary and Dolphy Pelaez, Sobeida Felix Morel, Madeline Bernard, Juliana Morel and Leavy Nin Bastista, known as close women friends of the Puerto Rican drug baron, were known to spend up to RD$300,000 at a night club …

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During yesterday’s press conference at the Hotel Melia, National Drug Control Department chief Rosado Mateo said that they had reports that 123 airplanes with drugs had landed in 2008, and that this number was reduced to 62 in 2009 thanks to the efforts of the task force led by Colonel Elvis Soriano Familia. Soriano Familia …

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President Leonel Fernandez’s legal advisor on narcotics, lawyer Marino Vinicio Castillo (Vincho) is insisting that Puerto Rican fugitive drug trafficker Jose David Figueroa Agosto is still in the Dominican Republic. Castillo said that if he were in charge of the investigations into Figueroa Agosto’s disappearance, he would interview former National Drug Control Department head Manuel …

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Today’s Listin Diario speculates on whether fugitive Puerto Rican drug trafficker Jose David Figueroa Agosto is an informer cooperating with the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) or a decoy, as presidential drug advisor to President Leonel Fernandez, lawyer Marino Vinicio Castillo has speculated. The newspaper makes the point that what is known is that since …

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National District Prosecutors have arrested Sammy Dauhajre for his alleged links to fugitive Puerto Rican drug trafficker Jose Figueroa Agosto. He was arrested at his apartment in the Torre Da Silva III in Santo Domingo’s Piantini sector. He is a brother-in-law of Mary Pelaez, who is also under arrest, suspected of being a front for …

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