Knowledge of coercion request postponed until February 15
He Public ministry requested a court of this judicial district to impose preventive detention, as a measure of coercion, against Marino Antonio Muñoz Concepción and/or Ronny Muñozwho faces charges of international trafficking of weapons.
Judge Kelvys Henríquez, of the Santo Domingo Oeste Permanent Attention Services Judicial Office, deferred hearing of the request for coercion until next Wednesday, February 15, starting at 12:00 noon, after accepting a request from the defendant’s defense this Saturday, who asked for more time to prepare his means of defense.
The Public Ministry, represented by Lenin Hernández, investigative prosecutor of the Complex Cases Unit, and Andri de los Santos, of the Initial Litigation Department, maintains that due to the seriousness of the case and the evidence obtained after the investigation began, imprisonment should be imposed. preventive action requested against the defendant.
According to preventive and intelligence work by the authorities, it was confirmed that the accused Muñoz Concepción bought high-caliber firearms in a gun shop in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to send them to the country through a shipping company.
Marino Antonio Muñoz Concepción, father of the deceased pastor Elisa Muñoz Marte, was brought to justice in the jurisdiction of Santo Domingo Oeste based on the evidence obtained.
Elisa Muñoz Marte and her husband Joel Eusebio Díaz Ferrer, 32 and 35 years old, respectively, were killed on the night of March 30, 2021, after they were intercepted by a National Police patrol that fired at them. the vehicle in which they traveled when they returned to Santo Domingo after participating in a religious cult in Villa Altagracia.
In the event in which the couple died, Claudio Ramírez Lamais, 29, was also injured. The three were traveling in a white Kia car, model K5, along with Carlos José Pérez Báez, who was unharmed.
During the investigation of the case for which Marino Antonio Muñoz Concepción is being prosecuted, it has been established that the firearms were sent from Pennsylvania under the name “Andrea” to be received in the country by Ronny Muñoz, and that they were allegedly used by the defendant on March 2, the day on which a hearing will be heard against the police officers who took the life of his daughter and son-in-law, who are being prosecuted for the act and are serving pretrial detention in different jurisdictions of the country.
Muñoz Concepción acquired an AM-15 rifle, black, caliber 5.56MM Multi Cal, series 20169667 and an XD-9 brand pistol, black, 9MM caliber, series D211756, along with two magazines and several 9MM caliber cartridges.
Given the facts indicated, the Public Ministry of this jurisdiction files charges against the accused Marino Antonio Muñoz Concepción and/or Ronny Muñoz for violating criminal types 6 numeral 1 and 2, 66 paragraph V 68, 70, 71, 73 and 77 of Law 631-16 on Control and Regulation of Weapons, Ammunition and Related Materials.
The prosecutor of Villa Altagracia Dalma Díaz was present at the hearing in which the coercion of Muñoz Concepción would be known, where she spoke with the investigating prosecutor in order to learn details of the case and reinforce security in her jurisdiction.
