Properties of supposed Agosto network seized
The brothers Garcia Coste had an apartment, a launch, an SUV and weapons they left abandoned
SANTO DOMINGO. The authorities seized weapons, an apartment, an SUV and a fast boat that supposedly were property of the organization of fugitive Jose David Figueroa Agosto.
Inside the apartment, located in the Carola IV building of the Naco residential area, the authorities found two pistols with 50 shells, and in the parking lot they found a white Infinity FX-45 SUV, license number G129208, and a Seadoo fast boat, with registration number NJ5889GK.
The seized apartment is in the name of Cesar Osiris Garcia, who is registered in the files of the National Department of Drug Control (DNCD) and is said to be an alleged front man of Ramon Omar Antigua Polanco, who was shot 13 times and killed last Saturday on the Duarte highway at Kilometer 10.
Garcia Coste was arrested on 27 May 2007 at the Controbas crossroads of the Duarte Highway, together with his brother Miguel Starky Garcia Coste and a friend of theirs, Joel Hernandez Cuevas, because they had three bullet-proof vests, two Motorola radios, two Viking 9mm pistols (0444-600107 and EKA-127201) in their car.
On this occasion they were found to have two clips with 21 shells for the pistols.
The authorities of the DNCD and the District Attorney's office found out that the apartment in question had been abandoned for the last 10 months, and this information was confirmed by some of the neighbors who went so far as to say that they did not know the brothers Garcia Coste, both of whom are natives of La Vega province.
The authorities suspect that the apartment in question operated as a collection center, one of many that the Figueroa Agosto organization had in the capital and in the interior of the country.
Yesterday several searches were carried out in the sectors of Arroyo Hondo and Naco in an effort to find new evidence that will lead to the location of more assets and possessions of the fugitive Figueroa Agosto.
The brothers Garcia Coste, together with their friend Hernandez Cuevas were the persons that took care of transporting part of Figueroa Agosto's drugs that were supplied by Antigua Polanco.
The investigators are sticking to their thesis that Antigua Polanco was so close to the Puerto Rican fugitive that he handled part of his money.
Both the brothers Garcia Coste as well as their friend Hernandez Cuevas had been picked up by the DNCD several times.
Nonetheless, there is the interesting fact that Cesar Osiris Garcia Coste, who is said to be the chief of the group, has no photographs, either on the rap sheet of the DNCD, nor in the voter registration rolls, and this is worrying the authorities of the DNCD, the District Attorney and the National Police.
Vincho Castillo
The president of the President's Ethics Commission, Marino Vinicio Castillo (Vincho), said that some sectors of the past administration as well and the current one, have impeded that the fugitive Jose Figueroa Agosto be caught. Likewise, he complained that many drug traffickers that operated in Haiti have transferred to the Dominican Republic, which results, as he said, in a danger for the country. Regarding the deaths of several persons, presumably tied to drugs, Vincho Castillo expressed his ideas that there are most likely pay back or "an adjustment of accounts." He pointed out that there is a superstructure that protects Figueroa Agosto.
Today the court decides whether the case is complex
The judge of the Sixth Court of Instruction of the National District will decide today if the case of the four persons implicated in the network of the Puerto Rican fugitive drug trafficker Jose Figueroa Agosto should be declared to be ‘complex'.
Magistrate Clara Luz Almonte will hear the case at the request of the prosecutor's office of the National District, which alleges that there are many assets to be accounted for and persons to be investigated, that could possibly be responsible for the crime of money laundering.
The accused are Mary Pelaez Frappier, Sammy Dauhajre, Ricardo Ivanovich Smester, and Juan Jose Fernandez, who are in the Najayo jail because of their relationship with the fugitive drug trafficker, who was tied to the seizure of US$4.6 million in cash.
The District Attorney managed to get this same tribunal to declare the case against Sobeida Felix Morel, her husband Eddy Brito and Leavy Yadira Nin to be complex.
Inside the apartment, located in the Carola IV building of the Naco residential area, the authorities found two pistols with 50 shells, and in the parking lot they found a white Infinity FX-45 SUV, license number G129208, and a Seadoo fast boat, with registration number NJ5889GK.
The seized apartment is in the name of Cesar Osiris Garcia, who is registered in the files of the National Department of Drug Control (DNCD) and is said to be an alleged front man of Ramon Omar Antigua Polanco, who was shot 13 times and killed last Saturday on the Duarte highway at Kilometer 10.
Garcia Coste was arrested on 27 May 2007 at the Controbas crossroads of the Duarte Highway, together with his brother Miguel Starky Garcia Coste and a friend of theirs, Joel Hernandez Cuevas, because they had three bullet-proof vests, two Motorola radios, two Viking 9mm pistols (0444-600107 and EKA-127201) in their car.
On this occasion they were found to have two clips with 21 shells for the pistols.
The authorities of the DNCD and the District Attorney's office found out that the apartment in question had been abandoned for the last 10 months, and this information was confirmed by some of the neighbors who went so far as to say that they did not know the brothers Garcia Coste, both of whom are natives of La Vega province.
The authorities suspect that the apartment in question operated as a collection center, one of many that the Figueroa Agosto organization had in the capital and in the interior of the country.
Yesterday several searches were carried out in the sectors of Arroyo Hondo and Naco in an effort to find new evidence that will lead to the location of more assets and possessions of the fugitive Figueroa Agosto.
The brothers Garcia Coste, together with their friend Hernandez Cuevas were the persons that took care of transporting part of Figueroa Agosto's drugs that were supplied by Antigua Polanco.
The investigators are sticking to their thesis that Antigua Polanco was so close to the Puerto Rican fugitive that he handled part of his money.
Both the brothers Garcia Coste as well as their friend Hernandez Cuevas had been picked up by the DNCD several times.
Nonetheless, there is the interesting fact that Cesar Osiris Garcia Coste, who is said to be the chief of the group, has no photographs, either on the rap sheet of the DNCD, nor in the voter registration rolls, and this is worrying the authorities of the DNCD, the District Attorney and the National Police.
Vincho Castillo
The president of the President's Ethics Commission, Marino Vinicio Castillo (Vincho), said that some sectors of the past administration as well and the current one, have impeded that the fugitive Jose Figueroa Agosto be caught. Likewise, he complained that many drug traffickers that operated in Haiti have transferred to the Dominican Republic, which results, as he said, in a danger for the country. Regarding the deaths of several persons, presumably tied to drugs, Vincho Castillo expressed his ideas that there are most likely pay back or "an adjustment of accounts." He pointed out that there is a superstructure that protects Figueroa Agosto.
Today the court decides whether the case is complex
The judge of the Sixth Court of Instruction of the National District will decide today if the case of the four persons implicated in the network of the Puerto Rican fugitive drug trafficker Jose Figueroa Agosto should be declared to be ‘complex'.
Magistrate Clara Luz Almonte will hear the case at the request of the prosecutor's office of the National District, which alleges that there are many assets to be accounted for and persons to be investigated, that could possibly be responsible for the crime of money laundering.
The accused are Mary Pelaez Frappier, Sammy Dauhajre, Ricardo Ivanovich Smester, and Juan Jose Fernandez, who are in the Najayo jail because of their relationship with the fugitive drug trafficker, who was tied to the seizure of US$4.6 million in cash.
The District Attorney managed to get this same tribunal to declare the case against Sobeida Felix Morel, her husband Eddy Brito and Leavy Yadira Nin to be complex.
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