{"id":124472,"date":"2019-03-27T13:52:09","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T13:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.do\/?p=124472"},"modified":"2019-03-28T11:29:10","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T11:29:10","slug":"preliminary-hearing-in-case-of-death-of-young-rumanian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/03\/27\/preliminary-hearing-in-case-of-death-of-young-rumanian\/","title":{"rendered":"Preliminary hearing in case of death of young Rumanian"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.do\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Gabriel-Villanueva-Listin-Diario.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-124510\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Gabriel-Villanueva-Listin-Diario.jpeg 680w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Gabriel-Villanueva-Listin-Diario-300x199.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>Gabriel Villanueva \/ List\u00edn Diario<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On Tuesday 26 March, a National District court held the preliminary hearing for Gabriel Villanueva, accused of the death of the young Rumanian woman, Andreea <g class=\"gr_ gr_7 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace\" id=\"7\" data-gr-id=\"7\">Celea<\/g>.  Villanueva has been serving a year of pre-trial custody in the San Pedro de Macoris jail. He maintains his innocence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Villanueva\u2019s lawyer, Plutarco Jacquez, said that the prosecution had not wanted to show the security camera evidence from the hotel where the incident took place, because if they did they would not be able to convict the accused and would have to release him for lack of evidence and witnesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also complained that the prosecution had concealed the list of phone calls and text messages, which show that the accused was not pursuing the victim, but the reverse as when the event happened, the victim had called the accused more than eight times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jacquez then accused the victim\u2019s sister, whom he said wanted to blackmail and extort the defense and that she had sent requests to the lawyers asking for RD$100,000 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The hearing was postponed for 2 April 2019 as requested by Villanueva\u2019s lawyer, Sonia Marlenis Guerrero, to give her time to study the accusations presented by the defense of 21-year-old Andreea Celea, who died on 1 September last year after falling from the window of a hotel located in Bella Vista in Santo Domingo. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lawyer concluded in the presentation that this was a suicide and not a homicide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2019\/03\/26\/558893\/conocen-este-martes-audiencia-preliminar-a-gabriel-villanueva-por-muerte-de-andreea-celea\"><g class=\"gr_ gr_52 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace\" id=\"52\" data-gr-id=\"52\">Listin<\/g>&nbsp;Diario<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/hoy.com.do\/conocen-audiencia-a-gabriel-villanueva-por-asesinato-de-andrea-celea-abogado-dice-ministerio-publico-no-quiere-presentar-pruebas\/\">Hoy<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2018\/09\/04\/531682\/gabriel-villanueva-protagonizo-varios-hechos-violentos-contra-andreea-celea\"><g class=\"gr_ gr_145 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace\" id=\"145\" data-gr-id=\"145\">Listin<\/g>&nbsp;Diario<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>27 March 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday 26 March, a National District court held the preliminary hearing for Gabriel Villanueva, accused of the death of the young Rumanian woman, Andreea Celea. Villanueva has been serving a year of pre-trial custody in the San Pedro de Macoris jail. He maintains his innocence. Villanueva\u2019s lawyer, Plutarco Jacquez, said that the prosecution had &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/03\/27\/preliminary-hearing-in-case-of-death-of-young-rumanian\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[154,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124472"}],"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=124472"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124511,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124472\/revisions\/124511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}