{"id":25740,"date":"2010-04-05T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/it-wasnt-figueroa-and-sobeida\/"},"modified":"2010-04-05T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T01:43:56","slug":"it-wasnt-figueroa-and-sobeida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2010\/04\/05\/it-wasnt-figueroa-and-sobeida\/","title":{"rendered":"It wasn&#8217;t Figueroa and Sobeida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Authorities in Puerto Rico denied rumors that fugitive drug baron Jose David Figueroa Agosto had been arrested on Saturday, 3 April. The rumor started when Diario Libre published a report claiming that the couple had been arrested in Puerto Rico. <\/p>\n<p> Figueroa Agosto operated a major drug trafficking ring in the DR for around 10 years after having walked out of a Puerto Rican jail by presenting a forged release order. In Puerto Rico he had been sentenced to 209 years in jail in 1999. He was arrested in 1995 for the murder of &#8220;Nandy el Gruero.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p> Diario Libre sources had said he had been arrested in the suburb of Carolina, near San Juan. <\/p>\n<p> Figueroa Agosto also managed to &#8220;escape&#8221; when being persecuted in Santo Domingo. Shortly after US$4.6 million and incriminating computers and mobile phones were found in an armored vehicle in a parking lot of the Alco Paradisso luxury high-rise in Santo Domingo. His lover Sobeida Felix was arrested at the time, but was freed on bail and then also disappeared. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in Puerto Rico denied rumors that fugitive drug baron Jose David Figueroa Agosto had been arrested on Saturday, 3 April. The rumor started when Diario Libre published a report claiming that the couple had been arrested in Puerto Rico. Figueroa Agosto operated a major drug trafficking ring in the DR for around 10 years &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2010\/04\/05\/it-wasnt-figueroa-and-sobeida\/\" 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":[229,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25740"}],"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=25740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}