A judge from the province Puerto Plata sentenced a man linked to the theft of electric cables from public lighting on the Sosúa-Cabarete highway, causing several communities to be left without electricity, to three months of preventive detention.
Judge Romaldy Marcelino Henríquez, from the Judicial Office of Permanent Attention Services of Puerto Plata, ordered that the accused Ancermo Villa García, alias Tiburcio, serve preventive detention at the Correction and Rehabilitation Center (CCR) Saint Philip of that city.
The investigation, led by Judge Hilda Patricia Lagomba, revealed that Villa García caused material damages amounting to RD$636,000, due to the theft of electrical cables between August 31 and September 1, 2024.
The communities where the accused perpetrated the crime heistwere affected by a prolonged blackout, specifically in the section between Bomba Balconi and the Cabarete Medical Center.
The formal complaint of the case was filed by Johanna de la Cruz Ramos, representative of the Sosúa City Council, who pointed out the serious damage caused by the theft.
Prosecutor Marcos Wilkins Díaz, representative of the Public Prosecutor’s Officepresented the evidence to the court with which he supported the request for the measure of deprivation of liberty against Villa García for the violation of articles 379, 382, 383 and 385 of the Dominican Penal Code.
