{"id":130451,"date":"2019-08-28T14:18:50","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T14:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ny1.dr1.com.do\/wordpress\/?p=130451"},"modified":"2019-08-29T15:32:45","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T15:32:45","slug":"marisol-franco-arrested-in-cesar-emilio-peralta-drug-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/08\/28\/marisol-franco-arrested-in-cesar-emilio-peralta-drug-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Marisol Franco arrested in Cesar Emilio Peralta drug case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The authorities arrested Marisol Franco, wife of justice fugitive C\u00e9sar Emilio Peralta (El Abusador) on Tuesday, 27 August 2019 at the home of the couple in Blue Tower in the Naco area of Santo Domingo. She was with her four children. The children were allowed to stay with relatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Marisol-Mercedes-Franco-El-Caribe.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-130535\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Marisol-Mercedes-Franco-El-Caribe.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Marisol-Mercedes-Franco-El-Caribe-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Marisol-Mercedes-Franco-El-Caribe-768x461.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Peralta is accused of being the ringleader of a powerful international drug trafficking gang that sent cocaine and heroin shipments from the Dominican Republic to the United States and Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Franco is charged of collaborating in the asset laundering scheme of the organization led by C\u00e9sar Emilio Peralta &#8220;acquiring goods and benefiting from their illicit profits knowing that these came from drug trafficking.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But upon making the arrest at her home in Blue Tower, National District prosecutor Rosalba Ramos said that the woman is being investigated and the fact that she is the wife of an accused does not make her responsible for her husband\u2019s actions, as reported in Diario Libre printed edition on 28 August 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When she was arrested, she was accompanied by her lawyer Joaquin Belisario who stated: \u201cA wife has no criminal responsibility, but for her personal deed. She is calm, waiting for prosecutors to investigate the case. The fact that you have an arrest warrant does not criminally commit you,\u201d said the attorney.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/m.elcaribe.com.do\/2019\/08\/28\/panorama\/pais\/apresan-pareja-de-cesar-el-abusador\/\">El Caribe<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/eldia.com.do\/apresan-a-marisol-franco-pareja-de-cesar-el-abusador\/\">El Dia<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/justicia\/apresan-en-un-operativo-en-la-torre-donde-vive-a-esposa-de-cesar-el-abusador-marisol-franco-GL13902334\">Diario Libre<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/pgr.gob.do\/2019\/08\/27\/ministerio-publico-arresta-esposa-de-cesar-el-abusador\/\">PGR<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/eldia.com.do\/autoridades-arrestan-pareja-de-el-abusador-y-sus-hijas-entregadas-a-sus-abuelos\/\">El Dia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>28 August 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The authorities arrested Marisol Franco, wife of justice fugitive C\u00e9sar Emilio Peralta (El Abusador) on Tuesday, 27 August 2019 at the home of the couple in Blue Tower in the Naco area of Santo Domingo. She was with her four children. The children were allowed to stay with relatives. Peralta is accused of being the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/08\/28\/marisol-franco-arrested-in-cesar-emilio-peralta-drug-case\/\" 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\/130451"}],"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=130451"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130537,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130451\/revisions\/130537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}