{"id":229669,"date":"2025-01-14T08:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T12:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=229669"},"modified":"2025-01-14T09:51:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T13:51:46","slug":"start-of-trial-against-accused-in-largest-cocaine-bust-in-central-america-and-the-caribbean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/01\/14\/start-of-trial-against-accused-in-largest-cocaine-bust-in-central-america-and-the-caribbean\/","title":{"rendered":"Start of trial against accused in largest cocaine bust in Central America and the Caribbean"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Acusan-Director-Distrital-Bayahibe-Op-Panthera-7-Diario-Libre-1024x596.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-229695\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Acusan-Director-Distrital-Bayahibe-Op-Panthera-7-Diario-Libre-1024x596.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Acusan-Director-Distrital-Bayahibe-Op-Panthera-7-Diario-Libre-300x174.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Acusan-Director-Distrital-Bayahibe-Op-Panthera-7-Diario-Libre-768x447.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Acusan-Director-Distrital-Bayahibe-Op-Panthera-7-Diario-Libre-1536x893.png 1536w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Acusan-Director-Distrital-Bayahibe-Op-Panthera-7-Diario-Libre.png 1716w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Prosecutors of the Attorney General Office on Monday, 13 January 2025 requested coercive measures against seven individuals accused of being part of an alleged drug trafficking network dismantled during Operation Panthera 7, which took place over the previous weekend. The operation followed the seizure of 9.8 tons of cocaine at the Multimodal Caucedo Port in eastern Santo Domingo on 5 December 2024. The bust is the largest in the Dominican Republic and the Central America and Caribbean region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The drugs were reportedly gradually imported to the Dominican Republic through different coastal areas and stashed to prepare for the big shipment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The suspects include Jos\u00e9 Nicol\u00e1s Castillo Hart, known as &#8220;Nikito&#8221;; Winston Armando Tejera Rodr\u00edguez, alias &#8220;Barbikin&#8221;; Nelson Neftal\u00ed Mercedes Lugo; Cristian Rayner Canela Aybar; Enriquillo Luis Brito; Enrique Jos\u00e9 Luis Brito; and Dulvi Jes\u00fas de los Santos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The accused are currently being held at the San Luis prison in Santo Domingo East. The Public Ministry has requested 18 months of pretrial detention and for the case to be classified as complex. A hearing to review the request is scheduled for Tuesday at 9am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/justicia\/2025\/01\/13\/operacion-panthera-7-estas-son-las-acusaciones-a-director-bayahibe\/2966565\">Diario Libre <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/justicia\/2025\/01\/13\/operacion-panthera-7-conoceran-coercion-a-siete-apresados\/2966530\">Diario Libre <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/nacional\/2025\/01\/13\/los-siete-acusados-en-el-caso-panthera-7\/2966424\">Diario Libre <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/nacional\/2025\/01\/13\/cabecillas-de-red-criminal-estan-procesados-en-operacion-panthera-7\/2966331\">Diario Libre <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/nacional\/2025\/01\/12\/operacion-panthera-7por-98-toneladas-drogas-\/2965325\">Diario Libre <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>14 January 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prosecutors of the Attorney General Office on Monday, 13 January 2025 requested coercive measures against seven individuals accused of being part of an alleged drug trafficking network dismantled during Operation Panthera 7, which took place over the previous weekend. The operation followed the seizure of 9.8 tons of cocaine at the Multimodal Caucedo Port in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/01\/14\/start-of-trial-against-accused-in-largest-cocaine-bust-in-central-america-and-the-caribbean\/\" 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":[337,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229669"}],"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=229669"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229697,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229669\/revisions\/229697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}