{"id":471791,"date":"2025-06-17T12:18:47","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T16:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/fifteen-people-are-convicted-of-trafficking-haitians\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T12:18:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T16:18:47","slug":"fifteen-people-are-convicted-of-trafficking-haitians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/dominican-news\/justice\/fifteen-people-are-convicted-of-trafficking-haitians\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifteen people are convicted of trafficking Haitians"},"content":{"rendered":"Santo Domingo<\/strong>.- The Collegiate Court of Montecristi imposed sentences of 15 and 10 years in prison on 15 people, including four military personnel, prosecuted in the framework of the case called ‘Frontera’ against a network dedicated to the trafficking of undocumented immigrants from Haiti, the Public Ministry reported this Tuesday, which described this ruling as “historic”.\n\nThose sentenced to 15 years in prison are Rafael Zabala Pe\u00f1a, Javier Jos\u00e9 Dolores Hern\u00e1ndez Merejildo, Julio C\u00e9sar Pujols Montero and Rafael Contreras Arno, who, according to the accusation, “used their military investiture to facilitate and allow, with malice and omission, the irregular passage of Haitian citizens into Dominican territory through the northern border, between the provinces of Dajab\u00f3n and Montecristi”.\n\nMeanwhile, civilians Eddy Rafael Cordero Villanueva and Osiris Rafael Est\u00e9vez Fortuna were sentenced to 10 years in prison for their leading role as organizers of the illegal crossing of migrants.\n\n\n

You can also read: A Dominican is sentenced to 10 years in prison for trafficking Haitians<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nThe court sentenced Edna Josep, of Haitian nationality and responsible for housing and hiding migrants in the country, to a 10-year prison sentence, after confirming “her active and conscious participation in the criminal network”, according to a statement from the Public Ministry.\n\nHe also sentenced transporters Santo Valerio Contreras, known as Santico; Anelby Susa\u00f1a Guzm\u00e1n (Chichi), Hilario Antonio G\u00f3mez Paul, Jes\u00fas Mar\u00eda Cerda, Elbio Jos\u00e9 Castillo Mart\u00ednez (Soco), Aquilino Sosa Fern\u00e1ndez, Expedito Rodr\u00edguez (Bobole) and Anelsy Escarlex Cordero N\u00fa\u00f1ez, linked to the logistics of mobilizing migrants, to five years in prison.\n\nThis sentence represents “a firm step in the defense of national sovereignty and the institutional integrity of the Dominican Republic” and constitutes “a transcendental precedent in the fight against criminal networks operating in border areas,” stated the Public Ministry.\n\n\n

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Santo Domingo.- The Collegiate Court of Montecristi imposed sentences of 15 and 10 years in prison on 15 people, including four military personnel, prosecuted in the framework of the case called ‘Frontera’ against a network dedicated to the trafficking of undocumented immigrants from Haiti, the Public Ministry reported this Tuesday, which described this ruling as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":471792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[36952],"tags":[41299],"class_list":["post-471791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-justice","tag-they-condemn"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-1YJx","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/condenan-policia-20-anos-de-prision-c5029e38-focus-0-0-375-240.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Justice"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/condenan-policia-20-anos-de-prision-c5029e38-focus-0-0-375-240.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}