SANTO DOMINGO.-The lawyer for the family of Jesús Cuevas Peña, who was murdered by Francisco Javier García Quezada, said that the hearing of the request for coercion measure will be known later because the defendant’s defense has not appeared in the process.
The judge of the Permanent Attention Office of the National District, Lissa Verás, appointed a public defender for the accused, accused of murdering and dismembering Cuevas Peña. The Public Ministry requests prison after being accused of murder and carrying an illegal weapon.
The jurist Juan Geraldo Aquino said that the accused committed the act for economic reasons since he refused to pay 112 thousand pesos to the victim, product of a loan business that they both had.
The lawyer stated that according to the investigations of the Public Ministry, it was determined that in the loan business, the victim contributed the money and the accused managed the loans.
The murder took place on October 6 last.
This is stated in the request for a measure of coercion from the Public Ministry, in which prison is requested for the accused García Quezada (Anthony).
The document establishes that on October 6, at 6:30 in the afternoon, the victim communicated with the accused via cell phone and agreed to go to García Quezada’s residence, located in the San José sector of the Sánchez Highway. , National District, to talk about the business of some informal loans they had in common.
After Cuevas Peña was in the home of the defendant García Quezada, he took advantage of the fact that the victim was sitting on one of the chairs in the dining room and stabbed him 13 times until he died.
In the instance it is indicated that the accused immediately proceeded to cut his victim in half, at the level of the trunk and the pelvis and after mutilating the corpse, he put it in a tank which he covered and kept there for days.
After introducing the victim’s body parts into the tank, the defendant sealed them with covers, adhesive tape, and placed two blocks on top, then placed it in one of the rooms of the residence.
The document establishes that the defendant García Quezada used a white weapon (mocha type), a hacksaw, and a hammer to sever the body of Cuevas Peña. These evidences were seized by the authorities at the residence of the accused, who would have confessed to the crime.
