Dorado’s father wanders in search of his son, dead or alive

After Juan José Dorado Gonzales left El Trompillo airport in the plane registration number CP-3172, piloted by Ernesto Cortes Tomas, his father, José Gary Fernando Dorado Castro, began a pilgrimage in search of information that would lead him to his son, with the slogan to find him alive or dead.

In his statement in the Special Force to Fight Crime (Felcc) and in the Prosecutor’s Office to which EL DEBER agreed, Dorado Castro, a veterinarian by profession, revealed that he is experiencing a kind of viacrucis.

First, he went to El Trompillo in search of information. At the airport they told him that they had not heard from his son; later he received confirmation that he flew in the plane accompanied by Cortes Tomas. He received telephone calls, such as the one from the lawyer Jorge Chavarría Hoyos, who informed him that Juan José had died in an accident with the pilot. He also told her that they planned to repatriate the body to relatives and that they would return her car. Gary Dorado even met with the lawyer in the hope of recovering Juan José’s body. He assured that they gave him the name of the owner of the aircraft and his telephone number. However, when he called, the lawyer answered.

The last time I talked to my son

“Tell me in a thorough and detailed manner regarding the disappearance of your son Juan José Dorado Gonzales, 27 years old,” was the question that the Police investigator asked Gary Dorado.

“On July 7, at 7:30, I called my son by cell phone number 72160357, which is mine, to my son’s phone number, 67278565, to ask him to go pick up his mother. He replied that he couldn’t because he was in El Trompillo and he was going to fly. I asked him where? and he answered, just over here. He (Juan José) communicated via WhatsApp with her mother to tell her that he could not pick her up because she was in El Trompillo ”, ready to fly, the young man’s father replied.

According to the testimony, it was the last contact there was with him. “From then on we do not know of his whereabouts. On Saturday morning I went to El Trompillo, and Mr. Abel Emilio Flores assured, in the first instance, that there was no record of my son leaving the airport. Then they asked us to enter the offices of the Special Force to Fight Drug Trafficking (Felcn), and this man immediately returned with a piece of paper and said that he already had information. He confirmed that my son left as a passenger on Thursday bound for a place called Cupesí. He provided us with the cell phone number 63466613, which was for reference in the flight plan.”

Juan José’s father reported that on that occasion he also spoke with the owner of the CIA 101 piloting school, where his son studied. He revealed that the man told him that I didn’t know anything about Juan José. He also pointed out that he had not seen him because when he finished his studies the relationship with the school ended.

Fateful call from the lawyer

José Gary Fernando Dorado Castro assures in his statement that he later went to the Felcc to denounce the disappearance of the young man. When he was waiting to file a complaint with the Police, he received an unexpected call.

“While I was waiting in this Felcc office, I received a phone call. The person identified himself as a lawyer and said that he received communication from other people who had information about his son. The lawyer wanted to speak with me personally and I said yes, “said the father.

Dorado Castro pointed out that at around 7:30 at night he met with the lawyer, who initially said that he was in the north, but in the end they met in an office owned by Equipetrol.

We walked into a meeting room. where He told us that he was hired to give us the news that a plane had crashed with two crew members and that both had died. He asked the family to help him repatriate the body. He also told us that my son’s car would be returned to us. Once I received the news, I stated that the most important thing was to get my son back and what I had to do. He replied that he was hired as a lawyer and that other people were going to contact me”.

First the body of the pilot

Likewise, Juan José’s father told the Police that that same day, around 10:00 p.m., he A person called from an unknown number. He was a man who confirmed that Juan José Dorado He died on an accident aerial. He was aware of what he discussed with the lawyer. The man also mentioned that they would take care of the repatriation of the body of his son and that the car would be returned to him. “I asked him when my son will be returned to me, which is the only thing that interests me. He answered that on Monday because tomorrow (for Sunday) The other body will arrive in Santa Cruz, referring to the pilot Ernesto Cortes.”

The father also asked why the two bodies would not arrive together. The man said because he agreed with the lawyer, who was in charge of coordination, that Juan José’s body would arrive on Monday and the pilot’s on Sunday.

José Gary Fernando Dorado, received calls on Sunday and messages from strangers. They said that he should not believe anything they mentioned about his son while he did not see it. They claimed that he was alive. Then he contacted one of his son’s classmates and friend, called RPR The young man replied that he had not seen Juan José for a long time. However, he began to have faith that his son was alive because he received messages of encouragement.

José Gary Fernando Dorado assured that during his pilgrimage the name of Luis Cuéllar emerged as the owner of the CP-3172 plane. “When I learned the name of the owner of the ship, and since my son studied piloting at the CIA101 school, I called the institute to ask if they knew Mr. Luis Cuéllar; They told me that the school rented the hangar from Luis Cuéllar to store his planes. They provided me with the phone number that was supposed to be on the hangar leases. However, coincidentally, the number corresponded to the lawyer Jorge Chavarría Hoyos, the same one who told me that my son was dead. I called him and asked him why he had the number of Mr. Luis Cuéllar, but he told me that he did not know and that surely there is a confusion because he was a lawyer for the civilian pilots”.