{"id":175443,"date":"2022-03-16T08:19:10","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T12:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=175443"},"modified":"2022-03-16T09:13:48","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T13:13:48","slug":"policemen-linked-to-alleged-drug-tumbe-in-barahona-sent-home-to-await-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2022\/03\/16\/policemen-linked-to-alleged-drug-tumbe-in-barahona-sent-home-to-await-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Policemen linked to alleged drug &#8220;tumbe&#8221; in Barahona sent home to await trial"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Policias-Tumbe-Drogas-Listin-Diario-e1647435991883.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-175504\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Esteban Armando F\u00e9liz Batista (Chatica) was released on bail. He is the Police corporal who allegedly was kidnapped to pressure him to return spoils from the sale of a drug shipment reportedly seized by police officers from drug traffickers in Villa Central, Barahona last August 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to the corporal, sergeant Oscar Andres Valentin Jimenez, the privates Ivan Feliz Volquez, Carlos David Pimentel Cuevas and captain Rafael Amaurys Medina Perez (Patu) were also released on bail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The arrested are accused of keeping 400 kilos of cocaine seized from traffickers in August 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Magistrate Daniel Medina, judge of the Instruction of the Judicial District of Barahona, varied the preventive custody measures imposed on the police officers under arrest in the alleged police drug corruption case. These were allowed to post bail for RD$100,000 and periodically appear in court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The police agents were defended by the law firm G\u00f3mez Rubio y Asociados, headed by former prosecutor Yv\u00e1n Ariel G\u00f3mez Rubio, together with Eucebio Rocha Ferreras, Gilbert Matos, Amelia Esperanza Ledesma Agramonte and Melina Ledesma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>G\u00f3mez Rubio, together with the team of lawyers from his office is handling the technical defense of Captain Rafael Amauris Medina P\u00e9rez (Pat\u00fa), Corporal Welni F\u00e9liz Batista, Juan Carlos Medina M\u00e9ndez, Miguel \u00c1ngel F\u00e9liz F\u00e9liz F\u00e9liz, Oscar Andr\u00e9s Valent\u00edn Jim\u00e9nez, Yovanni Cuevas G\u00f3mez, Jorge Ram\u00f3n Alc\u00e1ntara Urb\u00e1ez, Iv\u00e1n Mois\u00e9s Feliz V\u00f3lquez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listin Diario recalls in the story on the release that the alleged \u201ctumbe\u201d of drugs to drug traffickers did not have repercussions in the National Police until some weeks later when Corporal &#8220;Chatica&#8221; was &#8220;kidnapped&#8221; by police agents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The &#8220;kidnapping&#8221; happened weeks before the then Southern Regional Director of the National Police, Major General Eduardo Alberto Then, was named the Director General of the police force by President Luis Abinader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2022\/03\/15\/713105\/policias-vinculados-a-supuesto-tumbe-de-droga-en-barahona-son-liberados\">Listin Diario<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/forums\/threads\/four-who-kidnapped-policeman-are-sent-to-await-trial-in-jail.400060\/\">DR1 News<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/forums\/threads\/updates-on-the-case-of-the-police-that-stole-a-cocaine-loot.399891\/#post-5620283\">DR1 News<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>16 March 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Esteban Armando F\u00e9liz Batista (Chatica) was released on bail. He is the Police corporal who allegedly was kidnapped to pressure him to return spoils from the sale of a drug shipment reportedly seized by police officers from drug traffickers in Villa Central, Barahona last August 2021. In addition to the corporal, sergeant Oscar Andres Valentin &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2022\/03\/16\/policemen-linked-to-alleged-drug-tumbe-in-barahona-sent-home-to-await-trial\/\" 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":[293,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175443"}],"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=175443"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175513,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175443\/revisions\/175513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}