Tribunal dismisses criminal responsibility for former Lt. Colonel Johan Liriano
They based their decision on lack of evidence by Justice Department
Federico Méndez
SAN CRISTOBAL. The First Court of Instruction of the jurisdiction of San Cristobal issued a decree of insufficient grounds at the opening of a trial against former Lieutenant Colonel of the National Police, Johan Emilio Liriano Sanchez, who was accused of being a part of an alleged network at the service of drug traffickers, money launderers and killers for hire in the Dominican Republic.
Judge Rosa Mateo based her decision "on the fact that the evidence presented by the Justice Department to sustain the probability of a conviction in a trial were insufficient," for charges that classified the criminal acts of money laundering and complicity in willful homicides.
The decision, which accepts a petition from defense lawyers for Liriano, Luz Diaz Rodriguez and Aristides Trejo, also benefits Miguel Ramon Saviñon Toribio. The magistrate ordered the end of the coercive measures issued against the defendants.
By means of resolution Number 319 - 2014, she issued a decree for opening a trial against Lorenzo Guzmán Martinez, Maximo Javier Guerriero (Tito), Julio Alejandro Castillo Garcia (Julito), Henry Johnny Gallego Cardenas (Paisa and/or El Colombiano) and Antonio Reynoso Rodriguez (La Gata).
The group is accused of complicity and criminal association in order to commit willful homicide against Police Sergeant Luis Mendez Sepulveda, Abraham de Los Santos Rodriguez, Juan Felix Cordero Febles (Copelin) and Edgar Rafael Rijo Astacio (El Maestrico), as well as the Dominican state.
The judge declared in contempt of court and ordered the arrest, transfer to the court of Solomon Eusebio Rosario (Piki), and also established a travel restriction on leaving the country against this person, who was cited and did not appear in court without any justification. The alleged drug trafficker and chief of a network of hired killers to which more than 50 murders are attributed, was arrested last January in the El Dorado airport in Bogotá, Colombia, when he allegedly tried to get on a flight to Mexico. The accusation presented by prosecutors Diomerys Soto Valdez, Francis Valdez, Nicasio Pulinario and Pedro Medina Quezada, who requested that the defendants be sent to trial.
The court said that on 16 September 2013, Rijo Astacio supposedly shot Cordero Febles several times with a short barreled weapon and killed him. She added that the incident occurred on a farm located in the El Porquero sector of Santa Maria, in the municipality of San Cristobal, after which these persons, accompanied by defendant Castillo Garcia allegedly during the dawn hours of 18 September presumably removed the body of Cordero Febles, placed it on the bed of a pickup truck and took it to some cane fields in the municipality of Yaguate, where it was thrown out and then burned.
The accusation of the case file
The accusation indicates that during the investigation they were able to determine that Juan Felix Cordero Febles (Copelin) and Edgar Rafael Rijo Astacio (Kiko and/or El Maestrico) lived together on the farm located in the El Porquero sector of Santa Maria parish, presumably the property of Yanneris Abreu Jaquez and the Lieutenant Colonel Johan Emilio Liriano Sanchez, who allegedly simulated the sale to the defendant Lorenzo Guzmán Martinez. The judge also says that they decided to turn over the property to the alleged owner, Henry Johnny Gallego Cardenas who allegedly was an employee of the farm.
Judge Rosa Mateo based her decision "on the fact that the evidence presented by the Justice Department to sustain the probability of a conviction in a trial were insufficient," for charges that classified the criminal acts of money laundering and complicity in willful homicides.
The decision, which accepts a petition from defense lawyers for Liriano, Luz Diaz Rodriguez and Aristides Trejo, also benefits Miguel Ramon Saviñon Toribio. The magistrate ordered the end of the coercive measures issued against the defendants.
By means of resolution Number 319 - 2014, she issued a decree for opening a trial against Lorenzo Guzmán Martinez, Maximo Javier Guerriero (Tito), Julio Alejandro Castillo Garcia (Julito), Henry Johnny Gallego Cardenas (Paisa and/or El Colombiano) and Antonio Reynoso Rodriguez (La Gata).
The group is accused of complicity and criminal association in order to commit willful homicide against Police Sergeant Luis Mendez Sepulveda, Abraham de Los Santos Rodriguez, Juan Felix Cordero Febles (Copelin) and Edgar Rafael Rijo Astacio (El Maestrico), as well as the Dominican state.
The judge declared in contempt of court and ordered the arrest, transfer to the court of Solomon Eusebio Rosario (Piki), and also established a travel restriction on leaving the country against this person, who was cited and did not appear in court without any justification. The alleged drug trafficker and chief of a network of hired killers to which more than 50 murders are attributed, was arrested last January in the El Dorado airport in Bogotá, Colombia, when he allegedly tried to get on a flight to Mexico. The accusation presented by prosecutors Diomerys Soto Valdez, Francis Valdez, Nicasio Pulinario and Pedro Medina Quezada, who requested that the defendants be sent to trial.
The court said that on 16 September 2013, Rijo Astacio supposedly shot Cordero Febles several times with a short barreled weapon and killed him. She added that the incident occurred on a farm located in the El Porquero sector of Santa Maria, in the municipality of San Cristobal, after which these persons, accompanied by defendant Castillo Garcia allegedly during the dawn hours of 18 September presumably removed the body of Cordero Febles, placed it on the bed of a pickup truck and took it to some cane fields in the municipality of Yaguate, where it was thrown out and then burned.
The accusation of the case file
The accusation indicates that during the investigation they were able to determine that Juan Felix Cordero Febles (Copelin) and Edgar Rafael Rijo Astacio (Kiko and/or El Maestrico) lived together on the farm located in the El Porquero sector of Santa Maria parish, presumably the property of Yanneris Abreu Jaquez and the Lieutenant Colonel Johan Emilio Liriano Sanchez, who allegedly simulated the sale to the defendant Lorenzo Guzmán Martinez. The judge also says that they decided to turn over the property to the alleged owner, Henry Johnny Gallego Cardenas who allegedly was an employee of the farm.
Federico Méndez
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