The audience of extent of coercion against Andry Josué Vargas Núñez, known as “John Bosch”was postponed to Tuesday at 4:30 in the afternoon.
The session was postponed at the request of the Public Ministry (MP) due to the absence of the victim and their legal representatives. He court of permanent attention of the judicial district of Santiago will be in charge of resuming the process.
Vargas Núñez was deportee recently from the United States, where he was required in extradition under accusations of having participated in at least seven homicides in Santiago.
His detention occurred upon arrival to the country from the United States through the Las Américas International Airport, after a application of the Dominican authorities.
The National Police links him to various acts criminals events that occurred in 2022, including the shooting deaths of several people and the wounding of six others during a confrontation in the La Yagüita sector of El Ejido. However, his lawyer defender, Jacinto Acevedo Peña, denied the version of the Police.
Acevedo stated that Vargas Núñez faces charges stemming from a single complaint filed by the wife of a man Vargas allegedly killed.
Acevedo Peña argued that the record lacks evidence compelling that justify the extent of coercion.
“It was postponed so that the victim and his lawyer are present in the process. In this case, my client is being subjugated by a single person, the wife of the victimwhose complaint is not duly substantiated. There are no witnesses, videos, or concrete evidence in the record“declared the jurist.
Context of the case
According to reports of the Cibao Central Regional Directorate of the National Police, Vargas Núñez is identified as one of the alleged perpetrators of multiple murders in 2022.
In November of that year, in the middle of a party street in La Yagüita de El Ejido, is attributed the death of five people and injuries six more, along with Carlos José Núñez Díaz, alias “Gambao”, and Jean Carlos Cruz Martínez, alias “Coquito”.
Aliases “Juan Bosch“also has a order judicial against him for the deaths of José Ramón Tavarez and Armando Ismael Ramírez del Rosario in May 2022, in addition to a history of having injured National Police Sergeant Starlin Jiménez Mendoza in the same incident.
Vargas Núñez also has two records by heist at gunpoint in 2018, which reinforces the criminal history he currently faces.
