After five hours of consideration, Judge Fátima Veloz, of the Judicial Office of Permanent Attention Services of the National District, imposed 18 months of preventive detention on seven police officers of the 10 accused of the theft of ammunition in the National Police.
The seven police officers must serve prison in the Special Operations military detention center, located in Manoguayabo, Santo Domingo Oeste.
While the other three were imposed a financial guarantee, an impediment to leaving and periodic presentation. to the civil Miguelina Bello Segurahe was placed under house arrest at his residence in Flints.
Preventive detention
- Colonel Narciso Antonio Féliz Romero, in charge of the custody of weapons and ammunition
- Juan Miguel Pérez Soler, deputy mayor
- Captain Nelson Valdez, responsible for the weapons, ammunition and supplies depot
- Second Lieutenant Marino Antonio Rodríguez Toribio, gunsmith of the Cibao Central Regional Directorate
- Corporal Juan Luis Díaz Medina
- Raso Rubiel Martínez
- Raso Moreibin Medina Pérez
- Financial guarantee, prevention of departure and periodic presentation
- Captain Víctor Manuel Santos, auditor, with a financial guarantee of three million pesos
- Sergeant Major Miguel Ángel Gómez Espaillat, with a financial guarantee of two million pesos.
Public Ministry, satisfied
Wilson Camachohead of the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office for the Prosecution of Administrative Corruption (Pepca), stressed that they are satisfied with the court’s ruling and the way in which the seriousness of the facts in this process in which ten natural persons and one legal entity are “assessed.” accused in the call operation pandora.
Camacho indicated that the judge also accepted the declaration of the case as complex. “The members of the National Police “They betrayed their uniform, their institution and the country,” he said.
According to the report presented by the Public Ministrythe defendants stole: 82,949 12 mm caliber cartridges; 10,404 12-millimeter caliber cartridges; 26,128 7.62 mm caliber capsules; 489,907 9 mm caliber capsules; 230,340 5 mm caliber capsules; 117 45 mm caliber capsules; 68,066 rubber cartridges for 12 mm caliber shotguns; 59 tear gas and 31 37 mm caliber projectiles, affecting the State with more than 64 million pesos in one year.
Lawyers will appeal
The defense of those sent to preventive detention indicated that they will appeal the sentence given since they do not agree and consider it “abusive.”
Vinicio Aquino, who defends Colonel Narciso Antonio Romero Feliz and Captain Juan Miguel Soler Pérez, explained that the prosecution body has eight months to present new ones.
“This is a case complexthe same law establishes that the sentence is reviewed after eight months and there will be a review in February,” Aquino said.
He Public Ministry You have eight months to file the accusation.
