{"id":485569,"date":"2025-10-04T18:02:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T22:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/justice-for-murdered-couple-la-guayiga-mp-imposes-sentences-of-15-and-30-years-on-guilty\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T18:03:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T22:03:49","slug":"justice-for-murdered-married-couple-la-guayiga-mp-imposes-sentences-of-15-and-30-years-on-those-responsible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/justice-for-murdered-married-couple-la-guayiga-mp-imposes-sentences-of-15-and-30-years-on-those-responsible\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice for murdered married couple La Gu\u00e1yiga: MP imposes sentences of 15 and 30 years on those responsible"},"content":{"rendered":"Santo Domingo<\/strong>.- The Santo Domingo Oeste Court imposed sentences of 15 and 30 years in prison on those responsible for the murder of the couple Luis Miguel J\u00e1quez Rodr\u00edguez, 32, and Elizabeth Almarante Pacheco, 24, which occurred in 2023 in La Gu\u00e1yiga.\n\nThe event that shocked the entire country was perpetrated by Leonardo Alejandro Mercedes Mojica, alias “Nardo the Hitman”, and Dylan Alberto Ortiz, who were sentenced to 30 years in prison. While Jos\u00e9 Alfredo Ventura, alias “Tupete”, owner of the hotel where the crime was committed, received a sentence of 15 years. They will all serve their sentences in Najayo prison, where they have been held since their arrest.\n\nIn an interview conducted by Noticias SIN<\/a>, the victims’ families highlighted that the sentence represents a step towards justice after years of anguish and pain.\n\n\n
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\u201cNo sentence will bring my son back, but I felt very grateful, first to God, then to the judge and the prosecution. Those 30 years are well deserved\u201d, expressed Carmen Miguelina Rodr\u00edguez, mother of Luis Miguel, through tears.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Account of the facts:<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
The case that shook the country due to the cruelty of the events began on January 24, 2023, when the couple disappeared without a trace from their home located in La Gu\u00e1yiga, Pedro Brand municipality.<\/h6>\n\n\n
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\"\"<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\nSeveral pieces of evidence were found in the couple’s house that, according to the authorities, linked them to electronic crime (RD$193,000 and 12 credit and debit cards). But Luis Miguel’s father specified that he was a merchant and lender, so the handling of large sums of cash was “normal”.\n\nAfter almost two weeks of searching, two decomposing bodies were found on February 6 inside a septic tank in Los Alcarrizos, bound with adhesive tape, with signs of torture and gunshot wounds. They were recognized by their relatives by several tattoos and dental tests.\n\n\n
Involved:<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\nThe investigations by the Public Ministry<\/a> established that the crime was carried out by a gang in which Leonardo M\u00e9ndez Mojica, Dylan Ortiz, Jos\u00e9 Alfredo Ventura T\u00fapete, Jos\u00e9 Miguel \u00c1lvarez Ram\u00edrez alias “Beb\u00e9” and Eddy Manuel \u00c1lvarez Ram\u00edrez alias “Moreno” participated. The latter were killed by National Police agents in June 2024 in an alleged exchange of gunfire.”\n\nAccording to authorities, Luis Miguel was murdered in room number 2 of the Cayao hotel in Boca Chica, owned by Ventura. Then his body was put in a gray Hyundai Tucson jeep, rented by Dylan Ortiz. Later, they moved to La Gu\u00e1yiga, right to the house where the couple lived, proceeded to the kidnapping and murder of Elizabeth, who was a chemistry teacher.\n\nFrom there they went to La Esperanza in Los Alcarrizos, where they were thrown into a septic tank on a vacant lot.\n\nMembers of the National Police managed to track the vehicle and after investigations, the main perpetrators were arrested.\n\nTwo rifles were seized from Leonardo Mojica, which were determined to have been used in the crime, while Ortiz was arrested upon arrival from the United States, after the OCN-Interpol issued an arrest warrant.\n\nAt the time, the authorities<\/a> handled several hypotheses. The truth is that the file, instructed by prosecutor Manuel Medrano, describes a chain of events planned with precision and executed with extreme violence.\n\n
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Santo Domingo.- The Santo Domingo Oeste Court imposed sentences of 15 and 30 years in prison on those responsible for the murder of the couple Luis Miguel J\u00e1quez Rodr\u00edguez, 32, and Elizabeth Almarante Pacheco, 24, which occurred in 2023 in La Gu\u00e1yiga. The event that shocked the entire country was perpetrated by Leonardo Alejandro Mercedes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133543,"featured_media":0,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-22jL","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","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":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485569","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=485569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}