{"id":176355,"date":"2022-03-31T06:27:30","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T10:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=176355"},"modified":"2022-03-31T08:17:01","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T12:17:01","slug":"six-sent-to-preventive-jail-in-people-smuggling-iguana-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2022\/03\/31\/six-sent-to-preventive-jail-in-people-smuggling-iguana-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"Six sent to preventive jail in people smuggling Iguana Operation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"384\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Juzgado-Instruccion-Jimani-caso-iguana-Diario-Libre-e1648728952174.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-176402\"\/><figcaption>Trial Court in Jiman\u00ed \/ Diario Libre<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>An Independencia province judge ordered six accused in the Operation Iguana to serve six months of preventive measures. An inspector of the Migration Agency and a local migration officer are included in the group accused of people smuggling at the border with Haiti.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The accused are Roberto M\u00e9ndez P\u00e9rez, coordinator of controls at the Customs border post in Jiman\u00ed, and the inspector of this agency Johan Rosario Castillo. Also Quelinton Eduardo V\u00f3lquez Guzm\u00e1n, Delson Manuel Medina D\u00edaz and Juan Mateo Feliciano (Yefo) who must serve one year in prison in the Neiba jail. Also, Deivi Nova Reyes, who was an employee of the Instituto Nacional de Aguas Potables y Alcantarillados (Inapa). Dominga Guzm\u00e1n, mother of one of the accused, was ordered to appear periodically before the Public Prosecutor&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The instruction judge of Jiman\u00ed, Paco Terrero P\u00e9rez ordered the preventive measures after accepting the requests made by the Public Prosecutor&#8217;s Office through the Specialized Prosecutor&#8217;s Office Against the Smuggling of Migrants and Trafficking of Persons (PETT). He declared the case to be a complex one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nine simultaneous raids in municipalities of the southwestern provinces of Independencia, Bahoruco and Pedernales were carried out as part of the investigations into the Operation Iguana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/pgr.gob.do\/tribunal-impone-coercion-contra-los-arrestados-en-la-operacion-iguana-y-declara-el-caso-complejo\/\">Attorney General Office <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/noticiassin.com\/pais\/director-migracion-jimani-y-otros-implicados-en-caso-iguana-a-prision-preventiva-por-un-ano-1252600\">Noticias SIN<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/acento.com.do\/actualidad\/a-prision-preventiva-funcionarios-de-la-dgm-acusados-de-trata-de-personas-en-jimani-9048384.html\">Acento<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>31 March 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Independencia province judge ordered six accused in the Operation Iguana to serve six months of preventive measures. An inspector of the Migration Agency and a local migration officer are included in the group accused of people smuggling at the border with Haiti. The accused are Roberto M\u00e9ndez P\u00e9rez, coordinator of controls at the Customs &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2022\/03\/31\/six-sent-to-preventive-jail-in-people-smuggling-iguana-operation\/\" 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\/176355"}],"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=176355"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176403,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176355\/revisions\/176403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}