{"id":497646,"date":"2026-01-14T19:10:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T23:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/man-who-along-with-another-murdered-a-professor-in-2024-sentenced-to-20-years-in-prison\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T19:10:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T23:10:52","slug":"man-who-along-with-another-murdered-a-professor-in-2024-sentenced-to-20-years-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/dominican-news\/justice\/man-who-along-with-another-murdered-a-professor-in-2024-sentenced-to-20-years-in-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Man who, along with another, murdered a professor in 2024 sentenced to 20 years in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Santo Domingo.- <\/strong>A collegiate court of Santo Domingo Este<\/strong> sentenced a man to 20 years in prison for robbing and murdering another in 2024, in the El Valiente de Boca Chica<\/strong> sector, the Public Ministry reported this Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\nYorkis Daniel Sosa Medina (Yorkito) <\/strong>was convicted of the murder of Antonio de la Cruz P\u00e9rez, a physical education teacher and taxi driver.\n\n\n

You may be interested in: <\/strong>Eight people involved in Operation Colibr\u00ed sentenced for massive document forgery<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nIn the trial, the Public Prosecutor’s Office, represented by the investigating prosecutor Juan A Olivares, presented sufficient evidence to the court demonstrating the criminal responsibility of the accused, the organization stated in a note.\n\nSosa Medina committed the act in complicity with the now deceased Alfredo Tif\u00e1 Reyes, on the morning of August 27, 2024, when P\u00e9rez de la Cruz left his home at 5:00 in the morning to work as a taxi driver, a job he did before going to the educational center where he taught.\n\nIn those taxi driver tasks, P\u00e9rez de la Cruz picked up Sosa Medina and Tif\u00e1 Reyes, who shot and killed him to rob him of his vehicle and belongings, leaving the body abandoned in the surroundings of the Riviera del Caribe residential complex, in the El Valiente sector, of the municipality of Boca Chica.\n\nThat same day, Sosa Medina showed up on Francisco Street, in the Los Frailes II sector of Santo Domingo Este, with the victim’s vehicle, initially stating that he had bought it, but in the early hours of August 28, he was seen changing the license plate of the Hyundai Sonata, model Y20 car, while narrating to those present what they had done to the victim.\n\nThe person involved was shot dead by the Police, who seized from him the XDS brand pistol, 9mm caliber, No. S3760511, with its magazine and which, when analyzed with the shell casing found at the crime scene of Antonio de la Cruz P\u00e9rez.\n\nBy decision of the Second Collegiate Court of Santo Domingo Este, composed of judges Josefina Ubiera Guerrero, Yury Cuevas de la Cruz and Isa\u00edas R. Mart\u00ednez, the defendant will serve the sentence in the Najayo Hombres Correction and Rehabilitation Center, in San Crist\u00f3bal.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Santo Domingo.- A collegiate court of Santo Domingo Este sentenced a man to 20 years in prison for robbing and murdering another in 2024, in the El Valiente de Boca Chica sector, the Public Ministry reported this Wednesday. Yorkis Daniel Sosa Medina (Yorkito) was convicted of the murder of Antonio de la Cruz P\u00e9rez, a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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":[36952],"tags":[41299],"class_list":["post-497646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-justice","tag-they-condemn"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-25sy","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","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":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497646","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=497646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}