 Dominican doctor admits scheme to change immigrants’ fingerprints in US |
| Jose Elias Zaiter-Pou, pleaded guilty in federal court in Boston following a government sting operation in which he met with an informant in a Woburn hotel and agreed to surgically alter the informant’s fingerprints in exchange for $4,500. The Dominican doctor was sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison....... |
| Read more | 11 Feb 2011 |
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| Realtor vanished with their money, Ilonka Castillo can't leave DR - Over USD 300 Million gone missing in Punta Cana! |
| Investors in Punta Cana have been scammed by the real estate company Intercaribe, and its president, Ilonka Castillo. Bavaro Villas was foreclosed despite all fees was paid to Ilonka Castillo, she is also the important person who represents the Dominican Republic internationally in her role as president before (FIABCI), the International Real Estate Federation....... UPDATE - ILONKA CASTILLO UNDER CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION and she can't leave the Dominican Republic
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| Read more | 27 Feb 2012 |
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| Cholera Reaches New York from Casa de Campo wedding |
| Three New Yorkers contracted cholera that originated in Haiti. It made its way to New York City – thanks to a lavish Dominican wedding that seems to keep making headlines....., Do you ever think about who is behind Casa de Campo or how they made their money...?
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| Read more | 11 Jul 2011 |
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| Woman Charged with Drug Smuggling at Boston Airport |
| Drugs and fake Cuban cigars among the most popular souvenirs to bring home from the Dominican Republic. 21-year-old Luisa Gill is expected to be arraigned today on charges that she swallowed 50 pellets of cocaine and boarded a Jet Blue flight from DR......
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| Read more | 08 Feb 2011 |
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| Italian police dismantle drug ring involving clothes from Dominican Republic |
| A drug trafficking ring that used clothes dipped in liquid cocaine to smuggle the drug into Italy from the Dominican Republic has been busted by the Italian police..... |
| Read more | 07 Feb 2011 |
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| Young Canadian killed by 5 in Punta Cana night club, Update 5 - Jordan's family in legal limbo |
| Jordan Morrison, the 19 years old teenager killed in Dominican Republic was coming to aid of a friend in the hotels night club. He was beaten to death by 5 Canadian tourists while staying in Grand Paradise Bavaro resort in Punta Cana. The cheap all inclusive deals are attracting some of the worst low class tourists to the Dominican Republic, and floating them with free alcohol is a very dangerous combination......Update 2 - The name of those involved are released... Update 3 - Two will be charged with murder Update 4 - One of the killers were wanted back in Canada...... Update 5..... Jordan's family in legal limbo |
| Read more | 06 Feb 2012 |
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| Cockfight promoters want no part of animal protection bill |
| The promoters of cockfights yesterday said they reject a bill aimed at increasing the protection of animals and asked the Commission to leave the “fighting roosters” out of the legislation...... |
| Read more | 04 Feb 2011 |
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| Editor shot in Dominican Republic, Police hired to kill(Update) |
Guardian.co.uk report today that Dominican Republic journalist Francisco Frías, editor of Cabrera FM and the digital newspaper Prensa Libre Nagua, was shot by police while covering a funeral....... Related story - Dominican Police hired to kill, Many personalities on the list !!
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| Read more | 19 Nov 2011 |
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| Spain busts Dominican couple for laundering US$138M |
| Spanish Police detained 28 people incl 'Jorge el Terrible'. They were mostly Dominican between 20 and 40 years of age without previous criminal record. Now they are all charged with using a money transfer company to "launder" more than 138 million dollars, for the most part from drug trafficking...... |
| Read more | 03 Feb 2011 |
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| Crime knocks nightlife in Santiago |
| Police may be patrolling the streets, but this is not enough if the factors that generate crime and violence continue. Filpo believes that the increase in crime has a lot to do with unemployment and poverty........ |
| Read more | 03 Feb 2011 |
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| German tourist killed in Puerto Plata airport |
| Erich Zipfel (46 years old man) from Germany was found Yesterday in a small room behind the ticket counter of MartinAir in Puerto Plata Airport. He was laying in a pool of blood with the knife still sitting in his heart. Zipfel spend less than a month in the Domincian Republic..... |
| Read more | 04 Mar 2011 |
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| Cholera in Casa de Campo, Can we trust Dominican government data?(Update 2) |
| More than 239 connected with/or of the 500 VIP guests invited to Victor Vargas wedding party in Casa de Campo got cholera. Among the famous infected with cholera was Ricardo Harzoury(owner of Cap Cana). According to local media the government tried to hide this serious cholera outbreak from the public, and now the transparency with which the authorities are handling the cholera cases is put in doubt...... |
| Read more | 15 Apr 2011 |
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| Dominican gang member faces 100 years in prison |
| Polanco "Primera"(The Boss), in addition to charges of drug trafficking, racketeering, illegal firearm possession, attempted murder and conspiracy to distribute ecstasy, is accused of recruiting dozens of youngsters in public schools, mainly in Providence...... |
| Read more | 02 Feb 2011 |
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| A federal grand jury in St. Louis has indicted 11 Dominicans for fraud |
| 11 Dominicans sold drugs to victims, then posed as federal agents and threatened to arrest them if they didn’t make payments to people in the Dominican Republic. One of the customers paid more than $85,000 to the men....... |
| Read more | 27 Jan 2011 |
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| AP - Haitian boy killed when homes burned in DR |
| A 3-year-old boy of Haitian descent was killed when a group of Dominican men burned down four family homes in revenge for an alleged assault...... |
| Read more | 26 Jan 2011 |
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| Dominican Police Colonel’s murder opens major scandal(Update 4) The family speaks out! |
The murder of lieutenant colonel Virgilio Casilla Minaya, gunned down in the presence of his wife and a 10 year old daughter, opens another major scandal in the National Police, after the chief Jose A. Polanco revealed that the officer had been working in different cases of extortion and fraud involving several of its members. (Update 2) Top officials forced to retire. (Update 3) This story stinks of cover up and make the Dominican police chief and justice minister look like they were paid off.....(Update 4) The family speaks out, and it's not even close to the police report. Like Dominican Watchdog wrote in our first comment, then those behind the killing are unlikely to be "found".....
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| Read more | 11 Mar 2011 |
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| Dominican model linked to Berlusconi says they're only friends(Update 2) |
| In an interview in La Repubblica newspaper, she was asked whether she had ever had sexual relations with Berlusconi and replied: "Yes, but never in exchange for money." She said he was "generous and kind." and did it just to thank him for paying her five-year old daughter’s medical bills..... She and 14 other "bunga bunga girls" lived rent free in Milan for providing sexual services....... |
| Read more | 12 Feb 2011 |
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| Human rights group says Duvalier sold Haitian “slaves” to Dominican Republic |
| Frauncois, "Papa Doc", Jean Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier. The father made deals for cane cutters with Rafael Trujillo and Joaquin Balaguer, while the son continued the "trade" until 1986. Haitian President Preval says ex-dictator 'Baby Doc' Duvalier must face justice..... |
| Read more | 23 Jan 2011 |
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| Official says organized crime makes Dominican Republic more violent |
Institute for Economy and Peace, which placed the Dominican Republic in 93rd position among the world’s most violent nations, dropping from its former rank of 70......
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| Read more | 21 Jan 2011 |
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| Puerto Rico agents arrest Dominican with more than US$1M |
| Puerto Rico agents yesterday detained a Dominican national while driving a pickup truck on the avenue Isla Verde, with more than one million dollars stuffed in three suitcases...... |
| Read more | 21 Jan 2011 |
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| Dominican Republic faces new crime – Minors from Haiti becoming prostitutes to make living |
| As reported, the Haitian prostitutes have displaced their Dominican counterparts. As reported in Hoy, services range from RD$1,000 to RD$3,000 and some Haitian minors accept to have sex with up to three men at once for RD$2,000...... |
| Read more | 18 Feb 2011 |
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| The U.S. slams the Dominican Government on Haitian children trafficking |
| The head of the US State Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking warned that the United States could penalize the country, on “frustration” with the Government’s alleged lack of commitment in the trafficking of Haitian children....... |
| Read more | 17 Jan 2011 |
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