San Juan, Puerto Rico.-The drug trafficker César Emilio Peralta (Cesar El Abusador) had an air route for the transport, shipping and distribution of drugs from the Dominican Republic to New York, according to the informant CS-3, contained in the accusation of the authorities of Puerto Rico, a file from which the day obtained an official copy.
This in addition to the multiple maritime operations that distinguished the renowned drug trafficker who is prosecuted by US justice in Puerto Rico.
The signaling of these air routes coincide with a signal made by the head of the Sinaloa cartel, Joaquín (El Chapo Guzmán), that Peralta facilitated clues and resources to traffic drugs from Venezuela to the Dominican Republic by airway and that he had the collaboration of the today known as “Cartel de los Soles”.
The accusatory document establishes that the informant identified as CS-3 said that César the abuser offered the use of drug air routes taking advantage of their contacts and influences in the Dominican Republic.
The aforementioned informant at the time of formulating the accusation was in federal prison for violation of probation conditions, after being arrested and declared guilty of drug trafficking charges in 2012, the aforementioned informant supplied Cocaine to Peralta between 2009 and 2010.
The amounts of cocaine moved in each transaction ranged between 25 and 40 kilos, with an approximate total of 150 kilos. The last CS-3 transaction with César was 34 kilos at the end of 2010.
“César El Abusador”, with the profits obtained, directly or indirectly, of drug trafficking, destined to commit or facilitate the commission of the crime, including the acquisition of properties located in the Dominican Republic.
The investigation revealed that César Emilio Peralta (César the abuser), intentionally, combined, conspired, confederated and agreed with other people from the criminal organization to commit or facilitate the commission of said violation.
In the accusation, others involved in the criminal drug trafficking organization are also mentioned, which some were submitted in the Dominican Republic.
Peralta, accused of being the leader of the drug trafficking network, has been in prison in the Bayamón prison since December 2021, after being extradited from Colombia to Puerto Rico on December 22, 2021, date from which he keeps prison on the island.
César Emilio Peralta, to escape from the Dominican Republic after using the money obtained from drug trafficking to bribe corrupt members of the National Police, the armed forces and civil officials to avoid their arrest, judicial processes and narcotics seizures, as recorded in the accusation.
According to the investigation of the federal authorities of the United States, the criminal structure operated in the Dominican Republic from 1997 to 2019, the year in which its criminal network was dismantled.
The César Emilio Peralta criminal network received large cargoes of cocaine from Colombia and Venezuela that were received in the Dominican Republic and, subsequently, sent to Puerto Rico, the United States and Europe. Once he serves a sentence in Puerto Rico, César the abuser could be deported to the Dominican Republic, where he faces still open judicial processes.
Peralta left the country clandestine at the end of 2019, so he is considered a fugitive from Dominican justice.
The files against them remain in force, although they were suspended due to their escape. Article 151 of the Criminal Procedure Code establishes that when an accused evade the judicial action, the procedural deadlines are interrupted.
This means that cases against Peralta have not prescribed or extinguished. Therefore, if it is deported, the Dominican authorities can immediately reactivate the pending processes, without opening a new file. His return to the country will imply facing the charges that left unfinished to escape.
RD regulations
Dominican legislation contemplates criminal responsibilities by association of malefactors and regulates the legal effects of the escape, applicable to the case of Peralta.
The Supreme Court of Justice has reiterated, as in the Judgment of the Third Chamber number 24-0536 of March 15, 2024, which:
“The defendant’s rebellion constitutes a cause of suspension of the process and prescription periods, so it cannot benefit from its own evasive conduct to claim the extinction of criminal action.” This confirms that the judicial processes against César the abuser remain open and can be reactivated.
Process
– Audience
The Federal Court of Puerto Rico will decide on October 23 whether or not it welcomes the guilt agreement signed between the Prosecutor’s Office and the defendant, who admitted having trafficked drug loads from RD to Puerto Rico.
Red manufactured and sold the substance
Accusation. The members of the criminal drug trafficking organization led by César Emilio Peralta (César El Abusador) manufactured, transported and sold the drug illegally.
Part of the profits obtained were invested in chemicals and employees for the production of methamphetamines.
This according to the accusation of the authorities of Puerto Rico, after indicating that those involved imported cargoes of cocaine to the United States using operations in the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Colombia and the Dutch Antilles.
Those involved from the César criminal network The abuser stored the drug for distribution in different parts of the country, according to interviews conducted to several defendants.
