2012 – Page 322

The Ministry of Foreign Relations said yesterday that it would finance the return of three sailors, Candido Maximo Rois Quezada, Pedro Jose Henriquez and Alexis Hernandez, acquitted by Venezuelan courts after spending ten months in prison accused of entering Venezuelan waters illegally. They are expected to fly to the Dominican Republic shortly. The Dominican sailors …

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Former PRD senator Tonty Rutinel agreed to sign the papers for the posting of bail bond. Listin Diario reports that he left Najayo Jail on Friday morning, ending an ordeal lasting several weeks. Rutinel was arrested on 5 December for aggression against the mother of two of his children. He always maintained he was incarcerated …

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Authorities in the Dominican Republic have arrested Cleveland Indians player Fausto Carmona, who is accused of using a fake identity to try to obtain a US visa. Police spokesman Colonel Maximo Aybar Baez said Carmona, whose actual name is Roberto Hernandez Heredia, was arrested after leaving the US Consulate in Santo Domingo on Thursday, where …

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Yesterday, a court in Puerto Plata sent German Neils Casten Waga to six months in prison. He was reportedly caught inside a cabana sexually exploiting three children, aged 12, 16 and 17. Judge Adriana Vasquez Jimenez said that there were charges and evidence that the German might be a pederast. There had also been previous …

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Police officers attached to the Department of Migration Control and Investigation of the Trade in and Traffic of People arrested Eufemia Santiago Abreu yesterday. She is accused of illegal trafficking of people to several countries in Europe and to the United States. She was also accused of falsifying documents and swindling several people to whom …

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According to a source associated with the Public Prosecution office, ex-police lieutenant Fernando de los Santos, known as “La Soga”, accused of murder and other crimes, has escaped to Haiti where he is being protected by, and supposedly working for, a famous Haitian drug trafficker with whom he has strong ties, as reported in Diario …

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Santiago was one big noisy party last night as home team the Aguilas Cibaenas clinched the decisive game making it to the 2011-2012 Dominican Professional Winter Baseball Championship playoffs. The Aguilas did the unbelievable, and came from behind, winning their last six games in the round robin series to gain a berth in the playoffs …

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The tunnel linking 27 de Febrero and Jose Contreras avenues was formally inaugurated by President Leonel Fernandez yesterday. His wife, Margarita Cedeno, Public Works Minister Victor Diaz Rua, Ambassador in Brazil Joao Saneiro and representatives of the Brazilian construction company, Odebrecht also attended the ceremony. The government reports that the tunnel, aimed at improving north-south …

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The National Judicial Council (CNM) will hold a session at the Presidential Palace this afternoon in order to select a judge for the Supreme Court of Justice to fill the vacancy left by Jorge Subero Isa, who resigned after being replaced as Chief Justice. During the session, scheduled for 6pm in the Hall of the …

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The Organization of American States (OAS) and the government of the Dominican Republic have signed an agreement for the OAS to provide technical support for the elections. This includes an audit of the voter rolls and the data-transmition procedures for the General Presidential Elections and the Overseas Deputies next 20 May. The secretary general of …

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