Santo Domingo.- Judge Cecilia Toribio, of the Judicial Office of Permanent Attention Services of Santo Domingo Oeste, postponed until next Thursday the hearing to hear the measure of coercion against José Alfredo Ventura Tupete, alias El Invalido.
Ventura Tupete is accused of acting in complicity with a criminal association with other people to commit the murder of the spouses Luis Miguel Jáquez Rodríguez and Elizabeth Almarante Pacheco, who lived in the La Guáyiga sector.
The request for a coercive measure, requested by the Public Ministry of Santo Domingo Oeste, was postponed after accepting a request from the defendant’s defense, which asked for more time to present budgets.
Investigation
According to the Attorney General’s Office, as a result of preventive and intelligence work by the authorities, the link between the accused Ventura Tupete and the death of the married couple was established.
The fugitives Dylan Alberto Ortiz, Leonardo Méndez Mojica, Eddy Manuel Álvarez Ramírez (Moreno and/or Niño), José Miguel Álvarez Ramírez (Bebe) are also linked to the case.
The institution recalled that on January 24 of this year, in the early hours of the morning, the spouses Luis Miguel Jáquez Rodríguez and Elizabeth Almarante Pacheco disappeared from El Progreso street, in the La Guáyiga sector, located at Km 22 of the Duarte Highway. , Pedro Brand municipality, for which the members of the Disappeared Unit of the National Police and directed by the Public Ministry began the investigations.
After the events, the authorities followed up on a Hyundai vehicle, model Tucson (2020), gray jeep, chassis KMHJ2813BLU147622, license plate G496783, which had been used to transport the married couple, for which it was determined that this was rented to Mr. Alfredo Antonio Nova Pérez.
The investigations conducted by the Public Ministry establish that the fugitive Leonardo Méndez Mojica had rented the aforementioned vehicle from January 21 to 27 of this year, and that when it was voluntarily turned over to the authorities by Mr. Alfredo Antonio Nova Pérez , responsible for the vehicle, several inspections were carried out that revealed the place where the lifeless bodies of the married couple were found.
The body of the now deceased Miguel Jaquéz Rodríguez was found completely tied up with transparent sticky tape and the body of Mrs. Elizabeth Almarante Pacheco was likewise tied up with the same type of sticky tape and with two black tie wraps.
The Public Ministry has assigned to the indicated facts the provisional legal classification of complicity to commit homicides, facts described and sanctioned by articles 59, 60, 61, 62, 295, 297, 298 and 302 of the Dominican Penal Code, 3, numeral 8 , 66, 67, 83, 86, of Law 631-2016, for the Control and Regulation of Weapons, Ammunition and Related Materials in the Dominican Republic.Apl