{"id":485327,"date":"2025-10-02T19:01:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T23:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/hearing-on-coercion-set-for-tomorrow-against-police-officers-accused-of-killing-five-men-in-la-barranquita\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T19:08:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T23:08:37","slug":"hearing-on-coercion-set-for-tomorrow-against-police-officers-accused-of-killing-five-men-in-la-barranquita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/dominican-news\/hearing-on-coercion-set-for-tomorrow-against-police-officers-accused-of-killing-five-men-in-la-barranquita\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearing on coercion set for tomorrow against police officers accused of killing five men in La Barranquita"},"content":{"rendered":"Santiago<\/strong>.- The Judicial Office of Permanent Attention of the judicial district of Santiago will hear tomorrow Friday, starting at 9:00 in the morning, the coercive measure against eleven agents of the National Police accused of the death of five men in an event that occurred on September 10 in the La Barranquita sector.\n\nThe Public Ministry<\/a> filed on Thursday the request in which it asks the court to impose 18 months of preventive detention on the defendants and that the process be declared a complex case, due to the seriousness of the events and the number of defendants.\n\nAmong those processed are officers and enlisted personnel from different departments of the uniformed forces, including: \u00c1lvaro Paredes Paniagua (major), Jos\u00e9 G\u00f3mez Rodr\u00edguez (captain), Domingo de los Santos Vargas (second lieutenant), Yohandy Encarnaci\u00f3n (corporal), Geyser Francisco \u00c1lvarez Rodr\u00edguez (corporal) and Adri\u00e1n Miguel Villalona Pineda (private), assigned to the Department of Complex Crimes Investigation.\n\nAlso listed are Hansel M. Cuevas Carrasco (major), S\u00f3crates Fidel F\u00e9lix F\u00e9lix (sergeant major), Hairo Mateo Morillo (sergeant), C\u00e9sar Augusto Mart\u00ednez Trinidad (corporal) and Jos\u00e9 Octavio Jim\u00e9nez Pe\u00f1a (private), belonging to the Cibao Central Regional Investigation Sub-Directorate.\n\n\n
You can also read: Eleven police officers involved in the deaths of La Barranquita<\/a><\/a><\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\nThe victims were identified as Edward Bernardo Pe\u00f1a Rodr\u00edguez, Carlos Enrique Guzm\u00e1n Navarro (alias Charly or Charli Chasc), Jos\u00e9 Vladimir Valerio Est\u00e9vez, Elvis Antonio Mart\u00ednez Rodr\u00edguez and Julio Alberto G\u00f3mez, who died during an operation in a shopping plaza on Ol\u00edmpica Avenue, where the hairdressing salon of Valerio Est\u00e9vez was located.\n\nFamily members of the young hairdresser claim that both he and his client, Julio Alberto G\u00f3mez, were executed by the agents, while the relatives of the other deceased demand justice and that this act not go unpunished, calling it a “mass execution”.\n\nThe hearing, which will be held at the Federico \u00c1lvarez Courthouse, is shaping up to be one of the most followed judicial proceedings in the province due to the number of police officers charged and the social pressure demanding exemplary sanctions.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Santiago.- The Judicial Office of Permanent Attention of the judicial district of Santiago will hear tomorrow Friday, starting at 9:00 in the morning, the coercive measure against eleven agents of the National Police accused of the death of five men in an event that occurred on September 10 in the La Barranquita sector. The Public […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133543,"featured_media":485330,"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":[42495,40819],"class_list":["post-485327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dominican-news","tag-la-barranquita","tag-police"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-22fR","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-10-02-at-6.49.09-PM.jpeg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Carolina \u00c1lvarez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-26-at-5.31.57-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Dominican News"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-10-02-at-6.49.09-PM.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485327","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\/133543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}