Santo Domingo. - Emulating the MO of Pablo Escobar’s Cali Cartel the Puerto Rican fugitive Jose Figueroa Agosto acquired at least one pair of the same cars or SUVs in different colors, a as well as houses and apartments in the same zone or building to secure his escape if needed.  

The revelation comes in the wake of yet another murder of a member of the Drugs Control Agency, which it accuses a group of drug vendors who operate in a barrio of Villa Mella, in the ever widening case.

Figueroa had at his disposition more than eight paired SUVs, apartments in different floors (above or below each other) and more than one house in the neighborhood  of his main residences in which he spent the night, according to investigators.

The authorities detected his precaution from videos in which he appears entering a building, and a SUV of the same model, but of a different color than the one in which arrived, leaves the place but with an unknown destination.

Then, when the seizure of some vehicles considered his property took place, the investigators noticed the use of backup, the same MO used by the Colombian’s henchmen to protect him.

DNCD chief escort gunned down

Army sergeant major Dayri Felipe Diaz González, assigned to the escort the DNCD president Rolando Rosado, was shot several times in the Guarícanos sector, North Santo Domingo. A native of Neiba, Diaz was assigned to Rosado’s security just two months ago.

Drug Adviser calls for internal probe

The President’s Drug Adviser yesterday asked the investigation of a senior officer in the National Investigations Department (DNI), who had assigned the ex Army major Bienvenido Saviñón Aybar, who in turn had an assigned the official license plate used in the vehicle from where the ex colonel Jose Amado González was gunned down.

Marino Vinicio Castillo revealed that the DNCD and the Police pursue a Puerto Rican gunman who is reportedly at Figueroa’s service, identified as Jeffrey Torres, in connection with González’s murder, and a Dominican of last names Solano de los Santos, who had also escaped from a Puerto Rico jail and who was Figueroa’s driver.