{"id":232696,"date":"2025-03-12T07:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T11:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=232696"},"modified":"2025-03-12T08:54:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T12:54:17","slug":"dominican-court-delivers-verdicts-in-groundbreaking-operation-cattleya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/03\/12\/dominican-court-delivers-verdicts-in-groundbreaking-operation-cattleya\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominican court delivers verdicts in groundbreaking Operation Cattleya"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Mazo-Justicia-JCE-e1645704032382.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-174334\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Third Collegiate Court of the National District has sentenced Jos\u00e9 Rosario, Melvin Valent\u00edn Peguero, and Oscar de la Rosa, Dionicio Mieses de la Cruz, Zafiro Nathaly S\u00e1nchez Gonz\u00e1lez, Engel Neftal\u00ed Vargas Soto, Alejandro Arturo Batista Bustamante, Robert Lee Eleuterio Paniagua D\u00edaz and Mar\u00eda Paula Murillo Vargas to 20 years in prison and a fine equivalent to 150 minimum wages each for their roles as leaders of a sexual exploitation network within the framework of Operation Cattleya. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The court found the accused guilty of human trafficking, determining they operated an illegal network that facilitated sexual exploitation. Additionally, other defendants linked to the operation\u2014Jos\u00e9 Michael, Daniel Abreu, Cristina Gonz\u00e1lez, and Braulio Lugo\u2014were convicted of procuring and sentenced to three years in prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The men will serve their sentences at the Najayo Men&#8217;s Jail and the women at the Najayo Women&#8217;s Jail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/noticiassin.com\/tribunal-condena-a-14-de-los-15-imputados-por-trata-de-personas-en-la-operacion-cattleya-1801912\/\">Noticias SIN <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.com.do\/nacionales\/condenan-a-20-anos-a-los-cabecillas-de-la-red-de-trata-de-personas-del-caso-cattleya\/\">CDN <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12 March 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Third Collegiate Court of the National District has sentenced Jos\u00e9 Rosario, Melvin Valent\u00edn Peguero, and Oscar de la Rosa, Dionicio Mieses de la Cruz, Zafiro Nathaly S\u00e1nchez Gonz\u00e1lez, Engel Neftal\u00ed Vargas Soto, Alejandro Arturo Batista Bustamante, Robert Lee Eleuterio Paniagua D\u00edaz and Mar\u00eda Paula Murillo Vargas to 20 years in prison and a fine &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/03\/12\/dominican-court-delivers-verdicts-in-groundbreaking-operation-cattleya\/\" 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\/232696"}],"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=232696"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232741,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232696\/revisions\/232741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}