{"id":497772,"date":"2026-01-15T19:07:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T23:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/preventive-prison-imposed-on-two-men-accused-of-murdering-a-police-sergeant\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T19:07:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T23:07:41","slug":"preventive-prison-imposed-on-two-men-accused-of-murdering-a-police-sergeant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/dominican-news\/justice\/preventive-prison-imposed-on-two-men-accused-of-murdering-a-police-sergeant\/","title":{"rendered":"Preventive prison imposed on two men accused of murdering a police sergeant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Santo Domingo,.- The Permanent Attention Court <\/strong>of the judicial district of San Crist\u00f3bal <\/strong>imposed three months of preventive detention, as a coercive measure, on two men accused of the murder of a sergeant of the National Police on January 3 on Circunvalaci\u00f3n Avenue, in the vicinity of the municipality of Los Bajos de Haina.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\nThe coercive measure was imposed on Luis David Pichardo (El Flaco) and Eduardo de la Cruz Heredia (El Wa)<\/strong>, who are accused by the Public Ministry of the murder of police sergeant Yoan F\u00e9lix Montero and of causing blows and injuries to the victim’s wife.\n\n\n

You may be interested in<\/strong>: Three months of preventive prison against a civilian accused of killing a man and injuring another in Santiago<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nThe prosecuting body, represented by prosecutor Wendy Mar\u00eda Mart\u00ednez Garabitos, demonstrated in court the seriousness of the events and the need to impose preventive detention on the accused so that they can respond to the judicial process, the Public Ministry said in a note released this Thursday.\n\nThe events occurred on the night of January 3, 2026, when Sergeant F\u00e9lix Montero and his wife were traveling along Circunvalaci\u00f3n Avenue, in Los Bajos de Haina, on a motorcycle. Both were intercepted and held at gunpoint by the defendants De la Cruz Heredia (el Wa) and Pichardo (el Flaco), who were riding a high-displacement motorcycle.\n\nThe non-commissioned officer tried to use his service weapon when the defendant De la Cruz Heredia fired several shots at him, causing his death.\n\nAfter obtaining the firearm, the aggressors left the place where F\u00e9lix Montero died from gunshot wounds.\n\nBoth defendants were arrested on January 5th. That same day, through an act of voluntary surrender, Francesca Rojas Paulino handed over to the authorities the officer’s weapon, as well as a pistol that was used in the murder of F\u00e9lix Montero.\n\nThe National Police information does not offer details about the relationship between the accused and the person who delivered the weapons.\n\nJudge Jos\u00e9 Carlos Arias, of the Permanent Attention Court of San Crist\u00f3bal, sent the defendants to the Najayo Men’s Correction and Rehabilitation Center.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Santo Domingo,.- The Permanent Attention Court of the judicial district of San Crist\u00f3bal imposed three months of preventive detention, as a coercive measure, on two men accused of the murder of a sergeant of the National Police on January 3 on Circunvalaci\u00f3n Avenue, in the vicinity of the municipality of Los Bajos de Haina. The […]<\/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":[40357,41088],"class_list":["post-497772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-justice","tag-national-police","tag-preventive-detention"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-25uA","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\/497772","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=497772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}