It is not the first time that some of those charged in Operation Falcon, which is carried out by the DEA and Dominican authorities, have been caught in full criminal action by local and international anti-narcotics authorities, and mentioned or required to respond to the operations of transactional organized crime that have been executed in national territory, America and Europe for a long time.
Four of the group, made up of 21 people, who have been trafficking approximately 2,500 kilos of cocaine a week since 2012, are criminally responsible repeat offenders on several occasions without them being able to prevent their actions from continuing, as they were leaving the trials. easily, despite having strong charges, according to the Public Ministry.
The list begins with the two heads of the drug trafficking network
In November 2016, U.S. authorities in Puerto Rico, led by the Customs and Border Protection Agency (ICE), captured and confiscated them in Erick Polanco Mosque i Juan José de la Cruz Morales 1,786 pounds of cocaine in his charge.
At the time, the two heads of the investigated drug trafficking network, which had a control command in Santiago, broke away from the drug, which was worth $ 45 million on the black market.
Along with them, four others were captured: Kevin de Morla Santana, Rudy Contreras Severino, José Morales Soto, Sandy Hernández Mieses and Jonathan Jiménez Díaz.
“All of them, except Jiménez Díaz, were previously accused by a grand federal jury in Puerto Rico of trying to introduce drugs from the Dominican Republic,” says the newspaper Primera Hora de Puerto Rico, in a note attributed to the EFE agency.
The other two
The third of the repeat offenders, José Alejandro de la Cruz Morales, Is listed by the Public Ministry as a person with violent conduct.
“At the time of the arrest I tried to evade-“, points out the request for coercive measure filed by the Public Ministry.
Journalistic records point out that Jose Alexander Cross Morales, brother of Juan Jose de la Cruz Morales he has some cases open in different jurisdictions, including one for 400 pounds of cocaine, in which he has an arrest warrant.
Files state that in 2012 he was captured on the way to Santiago where he would deliver a “beach fridge” with nearly $ 500,000 in cash, as part of a money laundering network from drug trafficking.
Similarly, the following year return to the media cited among those responsible for the shooting deaths of two men on the night of June 18, 2013 on the road that connects the Duarte motorway with the Sant Cerro, in La Vega.
“It was revenge for a drug deal,” the media say at the time.
He was also caught trying to enter Puerto Rico illegally, where he already had a criminal record and had been repatriated years ago for criminal acts.
However, Judge Duvergé Mejía favored De la Cruz Morales with an act of disqualification because the National Directorate of Drug Control (DNCD) did not have an arrest warrant to capture him, despite having found him in fragrant.
The fourth recidivist Maria Olimpia Tavares Rodríguez, known as Oil and the Princess, was convicted in 2013 by transparent close to the RD $ 100 million in an international asset laundering network run by his then-sentimental partner, Colombian Huber Oswaldo Buitrago Ruiz, convicted in 2016 of the same action.
At the time of his arrest, authorities showed $ 1,003,000.00; 24,500.00 euros and RD $ 150,000.00, and 20 luxury vehicles confiscated in 14 home violations committed simultaneously in the National District, and the provinces of Santo Domingo, Monsignor Nouel, La Vega and Santiago.
The then judge of Permanent Attention of the National District, José Alejandro Vargas, sentenced three months of pre-trial detention with sending to the prison of Najayo Women in March 2013. Half a year later, a court ordered his release.
Within Operation Falcon, coercion will be known to the accused Juan Maldonado Castro, Víctor Elpidio Altagracia Paulino Herrera, Luis Daniel Nieves Batista, Adolfo Antonio Torres Sanabia, Juli Cèsar Jiménez Talavera, Joan Baptista Carpio Reynoso, Raúl Antonio Castro Mota, Yana Iris Maldonado Castro.
In addition, Angélica María Maldonado Castro, Lenin Bladimir Torres Bé, Marisol López Ceballos, Delfina Assumpció Polanco, Ana Margarita Coll Mart, Erich Fernando Meléndez Gómez, José Miguel Castillo Taveras, Elva Teresa Polanco, Joan Carles Durán Rogríguez, Javier Antonio Tavares Rodríguez and Felipe Espino Germán.