 Canada warns travelers on Dom. Rep. crime raise! |
TRAVEL WARNING - The Canadian Government warns its travelers to “exercise a high degree of caution when traveling to the Dominican Republic, citing a crime rate it considers high. “There is no nationwide advisory in effect for the Dominican Republic. However, you should exercise a high degree of caution due to a high crime rate,” says Ottawa on its website.
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| 16 Jun 2013 |
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| Dominican Grandmother Busted At JFK For Drugs In Wheelchair |
| Fior Daliza García came off JetBlue flight 838 from the Dominican Republic at New York’s John F. Kennedy airport and immediately drew the attention of Customs Inspectors. The 58-year old wheeled up to customs appearing ill at ease in her “newly painted” wheelchair, The Boston resident admitted that she agreed to smuggle the drugs in from the Dominican Republic in exchange for $12,000..... |
| Read more | 16 Jun 2013 |
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| Dominican nanny charged with killing 2 children appears in a NYC court |
Joselyn Ortega, the Dominican nanny native of Santiago charged with murdering children Leo and Lucia Krim in the fall of 2012, was declared fit to stand trial for the crimes, as determined by licensed psychologists assigned by the court. The accused last Friday again appeared in Manhattan State Supreme Court before Judge Gregory Carro, who said the trial could start no later than June. Ortega, who tried to cut her throat on the day of the murder, has pleaded not guilty to murder and faces life in prison if a jury finds her guilty on first-degree murder. READ ORIGINAL ARTICLE |
| 16 Jun 2013 |
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| Canadian tourist drowns off Dominican beach resort in Punta Cana |
edmontonjournal.com - Authorities say a Canadian tourist has drowned off a beach resort in the Dominican Republic. Police on Wednesday identified the dead 46-year-old vacationer as Derrick Hayley of the town of Bonavista in Newfoundland. He was pronounced dead Monday at a hospital after being pulled from the ocean by staff at the Bavaro resort where he was staying with his wife and son. In September, another Canadian tourist drowned off the same beach resort area of Punta Cana. |
| 16 Jun 2013 |
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| Top drug cop vows to nab those behind resort town murder |
DominicanToday.com - National Drugs Control (DNCD) president Rolando Rosado on Tuesday vowed to head the investigation into the murder by alleged drug traffickers of a Sosua City Hall official who denounced a business that sells narcotics. He said he’ll travel with the DNCD’s Intelligence director to Puerto Plata today, because the authorities won’t tolerate attacks on citizens who denounce drug trafficking. Alleged drug traffickers gunned down Adalberto Pichardo Martinez Monday night. His 24 year-old son Jose was also seriously injured in the shooting!
Rosado said those responsible for Pichardo’s death will be identified and charged. |
| 16 Jun 2013 |
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| Federal sting operation nets Dominican in NY State Assembly |
| Nelson Castro implicated Assemblyman Eric Stevenson, also of the Bronx and other elected officials involved in the scandal and together with former NYC Councilman Miguel Martinez, is the second Dominican politician charged with corruption in recent years, Martinez was sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty..... |
| Read more | 16 Jun 2013 |
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| Dominican Republic sends troops on the streets to fight crime |
| TRAVEL WARNING - The Dominican Republic is resorting to its military to fight the growing street crime and attack on tourists and public figures!!! President Medina ordered the Armed Forces and the National Police “to use all military necessary for the fight against crime."...... |
| Read more | 16 Jun 2013 |
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| Dominican with murder charges convicted for false US citizenship claims |
| The U.S. attorney's office says Javier Martinez also was convicted of re-entry after deportation, aggravated identity theft and illegal possession of a firearm. The U.S. attorney's office says Martinez separately faces murder charges in state court in connection with an Anchorage hotel shooting..... |
| Read more | 16 Jun 2013 |
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| 112 Haitian immigrants awarded $1 million in Dominican court |
This is hopefully the first of many such cases for them to win!!! Haitian immigrants in the Dominican Republic will receive $1 million [US] after a Dominican judge ruled their employer had illegally detained them for a decade and had not satisfied reasonable compensation..... |
| Read more | 09 Apr 2013 |
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| CNN: Dom Rep arrests 35 police/military plus 4 French in Punta Cana drug bust |
DRUGS FUEL THE DOMINICAN ECONOMY - Arrests were made in connection with the seizure of a private jet carrying 682 packets of cocaine in 26 suitcases. Few weeks later authorities said 1,909 kilos of cocaine were seized off the country’s eastern coast and now a cocaine shipment is found in a cacao shipment for Italy. Yesterday former head of Dominican drug agency finally extradited to United States, he faces 50 years in jail......, Why are no drug owners caught!
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| Read more | 10 Apr 2013 |
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| INVESTOR WARNING, Barrick gold shipment detained by Dominican Republic |
| DON'T INVEST IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - President Danilo Medina and the Dominican Government is using extortion against foreign investor by holding back their gold and demanding the contract renegotiated. The Canadian mining company already made huge investments in the DR based on the original contract signed with ex-president Leonel Fernandez. If that's not an investor scam what is?....... |
| Read more | 09 Apr 2013 |
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| ST. Kitts Police say Dominican Gang of 4 wanted to steal high value metals |
St. Kitts - THE second witness, Officer Richards, in the case against four Dominican Republic nationals: Angel Palmer, Ramon Benitezsaba, Juan Frederico Samiento and Arismandi Rivera, said they were arrested at the scene of the crime while trying to flee after wanted to steal high value copper wire, scrap metals and old transformers.....
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| Read more | 29 Mar 2013 |
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| UK Woman Held in Dominican Prison for Seven Months without Charge (UPDATE) |
| HOLIDAY IN HELL / Cardiff Mum Nicola Reyes jailed in tiny cell in Dominican Republic accused of murdering her husband Jorge in night-time road collision. 'She's lost everything', says mother of woman held in Dominican Republic.... BLOOD MONEY UPDATE - Needs to raise £65,000, the amount the deceased's family said it would accept to drop the case against her..... |
| Read more | 09 Apr 2013 |
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| Fallen 'Dominican Idol', Charged With Drug Smuggling, Part of Major Network |
Martha Heredia - A winner of the USA TV talent show "Latin American Idol" who was once loved by thousands in her native Dominican Republic was charged with drug smuggling after police found found 2.9 pounds of heroin in the heels of three pairs of shoes packed in her suitcase.....UPDATE - Part of Major Network!
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| Read more | 26 Feb 2013 |
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| TIME Magazine, The Man Behind Robert Menendez’s Troubles |
BANANA REPUBLIC NEWS!!! REPORT: Menendez donor could see 250,000-percent return on recent Dominican port security investment. FBI INVESTIGATION STARTED!!!
THE TRUTH: The Man Behind Robert Menendez’s Troubles
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| Read more | 26 Feb 2013 |
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| Carlos Marmol Accused Of Abuse In Dominican Republic |
(CBS) Cubs reliever Carlos Marmol has been accused of abuse by a 24-year-old woman in the Dominican Republic, according to the Chicago Tribune.....
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| Read more | 26 Feb 2013 |
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| NYPD says 1,181-strong Dominican gang keeps growing |
| The Dominican gang "Los Trinitarios” (The Trinity) of New York, has 1,181 active members, according to the New York City Police (NYPD). Local and federal agents have arrested and indicted hundreds of its members and sentenced to long prison terms in U.S. correctional facilities...... UDATE - Dominican arrested for running a powerful ring of gun smugglers operating from a barbershop in the Bronx..... |
| Read more | 26 Feb 2013 |
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| UK Foreign Office warning YOU about crime in the Dominican Republic |
The Foreign Office has updated its advice for British holidaymakers heading to the Dominican Republic - following recent reports of violent crime against tourists! |
| Read more | 12 Feb 2013 |
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| Thieves who stole an entire bay in Dominican Republic might get away with it |
Danilo Medina proves to be no better than the rest of his corrupt political rat pack - Medina reportedly issued special powers to his Legal adviser Cesar Pina Toribio, to make the agreement possible, including dropping the charges against former officials and their associates who claim ownership on the stolen land in Bahia de las Aguilas......UPDATE - MUCH WORSE THAN EXPECTED!
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| Read more | 01 Mar 2013 |
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| US State Department: Dominican Republic Has Problem with Sex Tourism |
Was US Sen. Robert Menendez the classic sex tourist in the Dom Rep?
According to several recent reports, the Spanish-language news network Univision tracked down a woman by the name of Yaneisi Fernández on Monday (Feb. 4) to find out if she was one of Bob Menendez's alleged Dominican Republic call girls.... |
| Read more | 07 Feb 2013 |
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| Black Sugar | Modern-Day Slavery in the Dominican Republic |
| Black Sugar - Nobody Knows I'm Here !!! Upon arrival, the workers’ passports are confiscated and destroyed, rendering their holders stateless. Haitians fit and brave enough to flee are often caught, beaten, robbed and forced to pay a fine to regain the very job they sought to evade. If this sounds a lot like slavery it is actually worse. “Researchers have agreed on this,” he says. “At least slave owners used to feed their slaves”...... |
| Read more | 04 Feb 2013 |
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| Tourist Murder no 26, French national hanged on his yacht in Samana Dom Rep |
WATCH VIDEO OF HANGED FRENCH TOURIST BEING REMOVED BY POLICE - Pascal Heron, 50 years old and with passport no 05CP62739 is tourist #26 to be murdered the Dom Rep in less than 3 years. Medical examiner of Samaná, Dr. Julian Bodden Emilio De La Cruz and deputy prosecutor Mr. Elinton Santiago Billiards plus the police certified that he was found dead with signs of violence on the body.....
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| Read more | 31 Jan 2013 |
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