{"id":110282,"date":"2018-03-08T10:12:15","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T14:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=110282"},"modified":"2018-03-08T10:12:15","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T14:12:15","slug":"man-sent-to-jail-for-felling-trees-for-furniture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/03\/08\/man-sent-to-jail-for-felling-trees-for-furniture\/","title":{"rendered":"Man sent to jail for felling trees for furniture"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_110246\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-110246\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-110246\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Jose-Manuel-Clarisio-El-D\u00eda-300x295.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"295\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-110246\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jos\u00e9 Manuel Clarisio \/ El D\u00eda<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Ministry of Environment reported the arrest of the leader of a gang that cut and sold trees harvested from the banks of the Yaque del Norte River in the area of La Canela in the province of Santiago. The Ministry of Environment press release notes that 52-year old Jos\u00e9 Manuel Clarisio Jerez, has been sent to the Rafey Jail for three months of preventive custody for violating Environment Law 64-00.<\/p>\n<p>Environment Minister Francisco Dominguez Brito said: \u201cAnyone who goes against mother nature should be in jail because a crime against nature is a crime against humanity. For each tree that is cut down, it\u2019s like we\u2019re killing the world slowly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dominquez Brito also recognized the efforts being made by the National Environmental Protection Service (SENPA) and the support received by the Specialized Prosecutor Force for the Environment in Santiago.<\/p>\n<p>The decision by the court to send the Jerez to Rafey was also commended by Dominguez Brito.<\/p>\n<p>The case only broke open after several months of tracking and using in intelligence operations in order to catch Jerez in the act. Jerez and his hired help cut down trees in isolated areas along the Yaque del Norte River, using chainsaws. The trees were then cut them up for transportation in closed vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>The Saman tree wood was then made into furniture that was marketed as made from mahogany.<\/p>\n<p>Besides jail time, the persons indicted also face possible fines of up to 500 minimum salaries, or around RD$3 million.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/eldia.com.do\/envian-a-prision-preventiva-a-traficante-de-madera-en-santiago\/\" target=\"_blank\">El Dia<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/elnuevodiario.com.do\/envian-prision-preventiva-traficante-madera-santiago\/\" target=\"_blank\">El Nuevo Diario<\/a><\/p>\n<p>8 March 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Environment reported the arrest of the leader of a gang that cut and sold trees harvested from the banks of the Yaque del Norte River in the area of La Canela in the province of Santiago. The Ministry of Environment press release notes that 52-year old Jos\u00e9 Manuel Clarisio Jerez, has been &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/03\/08\/man-sent-to-jail-for-felling-trees-for-furniture\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110282"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}