Santo Domingo.-A court issued this Tuesday one year and six months of preventive detention for the colonel of the National Police, Narciso Antonio Feliz Romeromayor of the uniformed service and six others of the 11 accused of stealing ammunition from the institution’s Administration.
Feliz Romero is accused by the Public Ministry as the leader of a network that was dedicated to stealing projectiles from law enforcement.
In addition to the alleged ringleader, Judge Fátima Veloz of the Permanent Attention Office of the National District ordered the same preventive detention for the deputy mayor Juan Miguel Pérez Soler; Captain Nelson Valdez, responsible for the Weapons, Ammunition and Equipment Depot; Second Lieutenant Marino Antonio Rodríguez Toribio; Corporal Juan Luis Díaz Medina, privates Rubiel Martínez (Escobar) and Moreibín Medina.
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The court ordered that the defendants serve preventive detention at the Special Operations center in Manoguayabo, in Santo Domingo Oeste, where only police officers are taken.
In relation to the other four defendants, the auditor Víctor Manuel Santos was imposed a financial guarantee of three million pesos, periodic presentation and impediment to leaving the country, while the sergeant major Miguel Ángel Gómez Espaillat, must pay a financial guarantee of two million of pesos, and the other requirements that to Santos.
Meanwhile, house arrest was imposed on civilian Miguelina Bello Segura. Both she and Ángel Rubíer Martínez and Juan Luis Díaz Medina Segura reached an agreement with the prosecution body.
The procedure
According to the indictment of the Public Ministry, the accused took 908 thousand ammunition stolen from the Police and sold mostly to Haitian criminal gangs.
It indicates that these projectiles were carried in backpacks to evade the security cameras and not raise suspicion, as stated in the request for a measure of coercion implemented against the accused.
According to the Public Ministry, Captain Nelson Valdez was the one who stole the ammunition and delivered it to Corporal Jorge Luis Sorilla Marte, who hid them in backpacks to evade the security cameras and at the same time remove them without raising suspicions.
