Santo Domingo.- The Dominican drug trafficker César Emilio Peralta ¨César The Abuser¨ He pleaded guilty to cocaine trafficking, according to Puerto Rico District Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow.
According to the United States Department of Justice, Peralta pleaded guilty on November 4, 2022.
César el Abusador admitted that between 2007 and June 2017 he intentionally and knowingly conspired and agreed with others to import cocaine into the customs territory of the United States from countries such as the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Colombia and the Netherlands Antilles.
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All in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 952, 960 and 963. Emilio Peralta is the leader of a transnational network based in the Dominican Republic.
“This conviction demonstrates the Department of Justice’s commitment to disrupting and dismantling transnational criminal organizations,” said US Attorney Muldrow. “We will continue to maximize our multi-agency efforts to bring to justice those who break our laws and traffic drugs into Puerto Rico and the continental United States.”
On November 28, 2018, the Federal Grand Jury for the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment against Peralta, charging him with conspiracy to import heroin and cocaine into the customs territory of the United States and with distributing five kilograms or more of cocaine for importation purposes. illegal to the United States. Peralta was later arrested in Colombia and extradited to Puerto Rico.
After several months of intense searching, “The abuser” He was captured at dawn on December 2, 2019 in Cartagena, Colombia.
‘César El Abusador’ had been a fugitive since August of that year, when a major operation against drug trafficking was carried out in Santo Domingo that led to the capture of several people.
According to the authorities of Puerto Rico, Peralta began in drug trafficking in 1997 and was arrested in the Dominican Republic in the years 2000, 2008 and 2015. Then, in April 2019, the southern district of Florida made a replacement indictment against Cesar Emilio Peralta.
Among the charges presented in the extradition request is “criminal association to knowingly distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine, with the intent, knowledge, or reasonable belief that such controlled substance would be unlawfully imported into the United States.”
Peralta was extradited on December 22, 2021 to Puerto Rico from Colombia, where he had been imprisoned in the La Picota prison since his arrest in 2019.
