Violence in Santiago and La Vega leaves 4 dead
Three police and Assistant District Attorney also wounded
Diario Libre
SANTIAGO. According to the National Police the two alleged criminals that were killed during a confrontation with police agents in the Villa Magisterial in Santiago, where three police and an Assistant District Attorney were wounded, were involved in killings for hire and other crimes.
The two alleged hitmen, said to be Saldhi Emmanuel Grullon Villaman and Ruben Francisco Fernandez, have been identified by the Police as the actual perpetrators of the killing of young Junior Ramon Jimenez Pichardo and Ramon Eduardo Sanchez Almonte, 17, whose bodies were found in an SUV in the community of Guaco, in La Vega.
Jimenez Pichardo, 21, had arrived about 21 days ago from Colombia, where he supposedly had ties with drug traffickers.
Pichardo and Sanchez Almonte, residents in the Los Salados Viejo section of Santiago, were found in the front seat of the red Mitsubishi Montero Sport, license plate G 146507, where six shell casings and four mutilated bullets were found in the community of Guaco, a part of the municipality of La Laguna, La Vega.
According to the Scientific Police, the persons who carried out the double execution got into the back seat of the vehicle, as evidenced by the presence of the shell casings there. The bodies were examined by the Medical Examiner Dr. Felipe Susana, who certified the cause of death.
The police reported that the two were directly tied to the distribution of drugs in Santiago.
During the search in the Villa Magisterial, the National Police recovered an M-16 with two clips and 200 rounds of ammunition, and two Glock 9 mm pistols with 30 round clips for each of them from the alleged assassins that were killed.
They also found 148 blank credit cards ready to be cloned, two Veriphone machines, a computer, several personal identification cards and voter registration cards called "cédulas", passports, three cell phones and a television control.
In the shooting in La Villa Magisterial three alleged criminals escaped and they are wanted by the Police to face charges for the commission of various crimes.
The top authorities
The Chief of the National Police, Major General Rafael Guillermo Guzman Fermin, went to Santiago together with the Attorney General of the Republic Radhames Jimenez, and he reported that the persons killed in La Villa Magisterial are also accused of cyber-crimes, rapes, robberies and homicides.
Guzman Fermin said that the Police are in a face to face war against organized crime and drug trafficking, and he warned that the institution would not retreat even so much as a millimeter from the performance of its mission to protect society from the criminals.
Also travelling to the scene were the director of Criminal Intelligence (Dintel), Fructuoso Heredia and the director of Criminal Investigations, Jose Polanco Gomez.
In the shootout in Santiago, First Lieutenant Frauly Paulino de los Santos, and Second Lieutenant Gregorio Peña Mejia were wounded along with Sergeant Williams Genao Pimentel and the assistant prosecutor Jose Anibal Trejo, who were carrying out a search warrant in Building 28, Apartment 2 on Street 4 of the Villa Magisterial.
Welcomed with gunfire
The Police were received with gunfire at dawn in the Villa Magisterial sector of Santiago. According to the National Police, the alleged assassins-for-hire shot at the Police vehicles as soon as they arrived to carry out the search warrant. The policemen reacted in a similar manner. The fight allowed other members of the gang accused of multiple crimes which go from counterfeiting to murder for hire and drug trafficking, to escape. The National Police will keep looking for the fugitives that, according to the officials, are heavily armed.
The two alleged hitmen, said to be Saldhi Emmanuel Grullon Villaman and Ruben Francisco Fernandez, have been identified by the Police as the actual perpetrators of the killing of young Junior Ramon Jimenez Pichardo and Ramon Eduardo Sanchez Almonte, 17, whose bodies were found in an SUV in the community of Guaco, in La Vega.
Jimenez Pichardo, 21, had arrived about 21 days ago from Colombia, where he supposedly had ties with drug traffickers.
Pichardo and Sanchez Almonte, residents in the Los Salados Viejo section of Santiago, were found in the front seat of the red Mitsubishi Montero Sport, license plate G 146507, where six shell casings and four mutilated bullets were found in the community of Guaco, a part of the municipality of La Laguna, La Vega.
According to the Scientific Police, the persons who carried out the double execution got into the back seat of the vehicle, as evidenced by the presence of the shell casings there. The bodies were examined by the Medical Examiner Dr. Felipe Susana, who certified the cause of death.
The police reported that the two were directly tied to the distribution of drugs in Santiago.
During the search in the Villa Magisterial, the National Police recovered an M-16 with two clips and 200 rounds of ammunition, and two Glock 9 mm pistols with 30 round clips for each of them from the alleged assassins that were killed.
They also found 148 blank credit cards ready to be cloned, two Veriphone machines, a computer, several personal identification cards and voter registration cards called "cédulas", passports, three cell phones and a television control.
In the shooting in La Villa Magisterial three alleged criminals escaped and they are wanted by the Police to face charges for the commission of various crimes.
The top authorities
The Chief of the National Police, Major General Rafael Guillermo Guzman Fermin, went to Santiago together with the Attorney General of the Republic Radhames Jimenez, and he reported that the persons killed in La Villa Magisterial are also accused of cyber-crimes, rapes, robberies and homicides.
Guzman Fermin said that the Police are in a face to face war against organized crime and drug trafficking, and he warned that the institution would not retreat even so much as a millimeter from the performance of its mission to protect society from the criminals.
Also travelling to the scene were the director of Criminal Intelligence (Dintel), Fructuoso Heredia and the director of Criminal Investigations, Jose Polanco Gomez.
In the shootout in Santiago, First Lieutenant Frauly Paulino de los Santos, and Second Lieutenant Gregorio Peña Mejia were wounded along with Sergeant Williams Genao Pimentel and the assistant prosecutor Jose Anibal Trejo, who were carrying out a search warrant in Building 28, Apartment 2 on Street 4 of the Villa Magisterial.
Welcomed with gunfire
The Police were received with gunfire at dawn in the Villa Magisterial sector of Santiago. According to the National Police, the alleged assassins-for-hire shot at the Police vehicles as soon as they arrived to carry out the search warrant. The policemen reacted in a similar manner. The fight allowed other members of the gang accused of multiple crimes which go from counterfeiting to murder for hire and drug trafficking, to escape. The National Police will keep looking for the fugitives that, according to the officials, are heavily armed.
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