{"id":477260,"date":"2025-08-03T15:26:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T19:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/man-arrested-who-appears-in-viral-video-firing-a-gun-into-the-air-during-a-discussion-in-los-mameyes\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T15:26:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T19:26:50","slug":"man-arrested-who-appears-in-viral-video-firing-a-gun-into-the-air-during-a-discussion-in-los-mameyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/dominican-news\/man-arrested-who-appears-in-viral-video-firing-a-gun-into-the-air-during-a-discussion-in-los-mameyes\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested who appears in viral video firing a gun into the air during a discussion in Los Mameyes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Santo Domingo.-<\/strong> The <strong>National Police<\/strong> reports the arrest of a man who appears in a video released on social media while having a heated discussion with another citizen, during which he manipulated and fired a non-lethal pistol-type weapon, firing a shot into the air, in an incident that occurred in the Los Mameyes sector, Santo Domingo Este.<\/p>\n\n\nThis is Mr. <strong>Ram\u00f3n Flores<\/strong>, 69 years old, who voluntarily surrendered at the headquarters of the Santo Domingo Oriental Regional Directorate, after the aforementioned recording went viral, generating widespread public attention.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/nacionales\/policia-recupera-electrodomesticos-robados-en-monte-plata\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"508574\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Police recover stolen appliances in Monte Plata<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nThe incident occurred around 11:00 a.m. last Friday, August 2nd, when the detainee, aboard his 1996 red Toyota Corolla vehicle, was involved in a vehicular passage dispute with citizen Dany Joel Lantigua Valdez, 33 years old, on Respaldo 4ta. street, near a cockfighting ring in the aforementioned sector.\n\nDuring the altercation, the detainee pulled out a non-lethal pistol, brand Ekol, model Firat Magnum K, which he handled and used to inflict several &#8220;blows&#8221; on the other involved person, and subsequently fired a shot into the air with the weapon, whose ammunition was blank. The moment was recorded on video by the affected person himself and spread on social media, which led Mr. Flores to decide to surrender to the authorities.\n\nAt the time of its presentation, the non-lethal weapon in question was retained, along with its magazine and five blank cartridges.\n\nThe case is under investigation by the Public Ministry for the corresponding legal purposes.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santo Domingo.- The National Police reports the arrest of a man who appears in a video released on social media while having a heated discussion with another citizen, during which he manipulated and fired a non-lethal pistol-type weapon, firing a shot into the air, in an incident that occurred in the Los Mameyes sector, Santo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":477261,"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":[40216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-477260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dominican-news"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-209K","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/IMG-20250803-WA0141.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":["Dominican News"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/IMG-20250803-WA0141.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477260","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=477260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}