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SANTO DOMINGO. - A National District judge Wednesday night sent three Colombians and two Dominicans to spend one year in prison to await trial, charged trafficking drugs to Europe, mostly Spain.

Judge Alejandro Vargas was shown enough evidence to send Néstor Castañeda Peña, Henry Toro Pedroza y Alejandro Víctor de la Cruz Méndez to La Victoria prison, and María del Carmen Padilla and Ana Lucía Advincola to the jail at Najao.

The Drugs Control Agency (DNCD) said Castañeda heads the Colombian narcotics trafficking ring and had been serving an 8-year sentence on money laundering since last April, but “was inexplicably set free.” It said the foreigner had been detained with US$208,500 and RD$540,000, whose origin he couldn’t explain.

It adds that the ring operated out of house # 97, Canoabo street, in the capital’s exclusive sector Los Cacicazgos “It’s a ring which had taken root for a good time in the country, where it received cocaine from Colombia to then prepare suitcases with the drug and send it abroad.”

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11 comment(s)
Written by: foresthill, 10 Nov 2011 11:10 AM
From: Dominican Republic
“Inexplicably set free”

Money buys anything in the DR, a corrupt state headed by Leonel.
Written by: Adrian29630, 10 Nov 2011 11:13 AM
From: Dominican Republic, Cabrera
"Inexplicable set free"? Nothing inexplicable here he just paid the necessary people the appropriate amount and was let out. The Dominican system!
Written by: DONT_BE_SILENT, 10 Nov 2011 11:16 AM
From: Dominican Republic, NEVER FORGOTTEN, NEVER FORSAKEN!
Leo, why don't you hold this judge accountable for this action? Do something good for the first time in you non-character life!
Written by: sweetbabyj, 10 Nov 2011 11:28 AM
From: United States
First measure would be to build a maximum security prison with total isolation and lock down. Build a sub level section deep under ground for the police and military who commit crimes depriving them of even sunlight.You cannot simply put them into a prison where they can recruit new members and have contact with the outside world thru smuggled in cell phones. Make it a place feared by all especially Police and military where a murder is locked up 23 hours a day in a 8 x 5 cell.
Written by: Adrian29630, 10 Nov 2011 11:39 AM
From: Dominican Republic, Cabrera
@ DONT_BE_SILENT This judge has done the right thing and sent them all to jail to await trial. The people who should be sought are those responsible for allowing someone serving an 8 year jail sentence to be let out. There is no explanation here of the "inexplicable circumstances". It could have been another judge signing a release, a prison warden letting him out the back door, etc but someone was responsible and was paid. That person should be in jail as well and for a very long time.
Written by: BASTA, 10 Nov 2011 12:01 PM
From: Dominican Republic, =Ghetto/Legalize Drugs
That person should be in jail as well and for a very long time.= like that would happen and there is The Pardon!
Written by: Grosero, 10 Nov 2011 12:47 PM
From: United States
What and no phone calls from Castañeda boss, Uncle Sammy ????
Written by: okian, 10 Nov 2011 3:14 PM
From: United States
We all know the truth, MONEY talks in the DR at ALL levels.
Written by: blackopal, 10 Nov 2011 11:41 PM
From: United States
Money talk all country.Make sad my country of birth so bad though
Written by: Bizc8, 11 Nov 2011 6:07 PM
From: United States
It's a spineless culture thus a spineless government...
Written by: VeronicaDR, 11 Nov 2011 8:41 PM
From: United States
Drug traffickers set free who should still be jail? No way this is a big shock. There are several in Santiago who should be in jail or executed for the murders and drug trafficking they do. Yet they have enough money to pay their way out and go free.Its too bad the rest of my fellow Dominicans cant get together and vote in a non corrupt president to clean up our mess once and for all.

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