They will request reconsideration in case of murder of woman in Gurabo

The Caguas prosecutor’s office will request a reconsideration today of the determination of no cause for the arrest of Dennis Rivera Aponte, Suspected of murdering his partner Ileana Rodríguez Félix in Gurabo, while they manage the marking of a date for the indictment hearing in height.

At the same time, the Public Ministry and the Police are preparing to submit “new evidence,” said the director of the Caguas Criminal Investigation Corps (CIC), Ricardo de Jesús.

The moves arise after that the judge Evyanne M. Martyr Hernandez determined that there was no cause for the arrest of Dennis Rivera Aponte, husband of Rodriguez Felix, on charges of murder and use of a knife, although he did find cause for the charge of lying to the authorities for say that the 35-year-old woman die due to vehicle collision.

“I was in conversation with the interim district prosecutor (of Caguas) Maribel Mojica and she informed me that during today she is going to write the reconsideration. She is also going to be working with the date for the Rule 6 in height, “De Jesus told The New Day.

The term “Rule 6” refers to the process of filing complaints in court. When the magistrate finds no cause for the arrest of an accused, the authorities have a second chance to submit the charges in what is known as a “height view,” which is assigned to a judge other than the one who first saw him. appeal.

De Jesús has noted that “the three prosecutors in the case, police investigators and staff from the Institute of Forensic Sciences had already determined that there was sufficient evidence to submit the case to Rule 6.”

“The judges have ample discretion to make a determination. In this case, unfortunately no cause was found in these two crimes, although they did give false information. We respect him, but we do not agree,” he said. official.

“What’s left is to get the new date for the height view to submit the test again and submit some new evidence,” he added.

Although he was not emphatic about what this new evidence will consist of, he did not rule out that it may consist of “some analysis that has been pending from Forensics. We continue to work on other issues, such as interviews and see if other visuals can be obtained, including d ‘others’.

However, the head of the Caguas ICC stressed that yesterday they submitted enough evidence to link Rivera Pérez with the murder, including “the ICF pathologist’s report on the cause of death, which went to be killed with a blunt object, that the blows were not compatible with a car crash. “

According to the investigation, it was the man who called for help after colliding on the spot. When the units arrived, they found the lifeless woman in the passenger seat of a Mitsubishi Endeavor vehicle.

However, according to the police report, the woman presented with “blows to the head area that are not compatible with a car accident.”

In the scene they read the warnings of law to Rivera Aponte, who from that moment took refuge in his right to remain silent not to incriminate himself.

The judge imposed a $ 20,000 bail on the defendant for lying to authorities about the cause of his wife’s death, though he did not grant the charge for murder.

“We understand that with the evidence presented it was due to find cause at this stage of the trial,” said De Jesus, who said he could not provide details about the evidence presented yesterday so as not to affect the prosecution process.