{"id":479255,"date":"2025-08-19T20:25:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T00:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/dicrim-shoots-down-la-gargola-in-alleged-exchange-of-gunfire-in-santiago\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T20:25:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T00:25:18","slug":"dicrim-shoots-down-la-gargola-in-alleged-exchange-of-gunfire-in-santiago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/dominican-news\/dicrim-shoots-down-la-gargola-in-alleged-exchange-of-gunfire-in-santiago\/","title":{"rendered":"DICRIM shoots down &#8220;La G\u00e1rgola&#8221; in alleged exchange of gunfire in Santiago"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>Santiago.<\/strong> \u2013 <strong>Agents of the Central Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DICRIM)<\/strong> shot and killed a suspected criminal identified as Jairo Antonio Espaillat, alias <em>\u201c<\/em><strong><em>La G\u00e1rgola\u201d<\/em><\/strong> or <em>\u201cEl Explosivo\u201d<\/em>, on Tuesday afternoon during an alleged shootout in the Jacagua community, north of this city.\n\nAccording to the preliminary version from the authorities, the 42-year-old man was actively sought and had at least three arrest warrants related to armed robbery.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/Se fuga \u201cCopita\u201d, condenado a 30 a\u00f1os, cuando era conducido a la c\u00e1rcel\">http:\/\/Se fuga \u201cCopita\u201d, condenado a 30 a\u00f1os, cuando era conducido a la c\u00e1rcel<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nAccording to reports, upon realizing the police pursuit, Espaillat allegedly fired at the officers from some bushes, which caused them to return fire.\n\nIn the exchange, he was seriously injured and died later while receiving medical attention at a health center.\n\nThe body was transferred to the National Institute of Forensic Sciences (INACIF) of Santiago, for the corresponding purposes of autopsy and subsequent delivery to its relatives.\n\nSo far, the authorities have not offered further details about the case.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santiago. \u2013 Agents of the Central Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DICRIM) shot and killed a suspected criminal identified as Jairo Antonio Espaillat, alias \u201cLa G\u00e1rgola\u201d or \u201cEl Explosivo\u201d, on Tuesday afternoon during an alleged shootout in the Jacagua community, north of this city. According to the preliminary version from the authorities, the 42-year-old man was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":479256,"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":[14719],"class_list":["post-479255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dominican-news","tag-dicrim"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-20FV","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-08-19-at-8.10.04-PM.jpeg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Inocencio Encarnaci\u00f3n","author_image":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/fb05fc387015a833e131f980ca4a79163ed9d20b5d077f4f286c6f316ef033ae?s=96&d=mm&r=g","categories_name":["Dominican News"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-08-19-at-8.10.04-PM.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479255","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\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}