The Judicial Office of Permanent Attention of the Santiago Province postponed this Friday the knowledge of the request for coercion measure against the eleven police officers charged with the death of five men in a commercial square of the Barranquita.
The hearing was rescheduled for next Thursday, October 9, so that agents’ lawyers have time to study the accusatory file and so that the relatives of the victims can be present.
«A deadline to analyze the large amount of evidence presented by the Public Ministry and socialize those evidence with its represented«, Said the attached attorney Wilson Camacho.
Accused
The defendants are the biggest Álvaro Paredes Paniagua and Hansel Michel Cuevas Carrasco; Captain José Ignacio Gómez Rodríguez; the second Lieutenant Domingo de los Santos Vargas; Los Cabos Yohandy Encarnación, Geyser Francisco Álvarez Rodríguez and César Augusto Martínez Trinidad; Sergeant Major Socrates Fidel Féliz Féliz; Sergeant Hairo Mateo Morillo, and the Rasos Adrián Miguel Villalona Pineda and José Octavio Jiménez Peña.
The police are charged with MALHECHORES ASSOCIATION AND VOLUNTARY HOMICIDE to the detriment of Elvis Antonio Martínez Rodríguez (Deivito), 26; Julio Alberto Gómez (the table), 28; Carlos Enrique Guzmán Navarro (El Charly and/or Charli Chasc), 40; Edward Bernardo Peña Rodríguez, 35, and José Vladimir Valerio Estévez, 25.
The Public Ministry asks for the imposition of 18 months of preventive detention and the declaration of complex caseand holds to the extent of coercion that, after committing the fact, the accused developed a series of actions with the aim of hiding evidence and hindering subsequent research.
The Attorney General’s Office granted to the case the provisional legal qualification of violation of articles 265, 266, 295 and 304 of the Dominican Criminal Code, which typify the Association of Malhechores and the voluntary homicide.
Police agents arrived in the square in three vehicles – two cars, a Mazda and a Honda Civic, and a kia k5 k5 of the year 2013. “The defendants launched the vehicles and were in front of the entrance of the square; they quickly left the aforementioned vehicles and, without mediating words, they shot at the victims,” in the presence of a witness who managed to record what happened and who already took away his mobile phone.
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In addition, they stole the DVR of the business of the place of the event, “as well as several phones belonging to different people present, with the interest of destroying evidence of the process and hindering the research.” He even adds the measurement request, they called the owner of a business that was closed to demand the DVR of the premises, which they took and took.
After what happened, the Attorney General of the Republic, Yeni Berenice Reynoso, instructed the Director General of Persecution of the Public Ministry and the Prosecutor of Santiago to carry out an investigation to “determine the objective circumstances in which the case occurred in question and proceed in accordance with the result of the same”.
