The judge of the Office of Permanent Attention of the Department of Justice of San Pedro de Macoris imposed a year of pre-trial detention on Julio de los Santos Bautista, alias Julito Kilo, during a meeting known on Thursday.
Judge Darlys Eusebio Vásquez also decided to declare the case complex by issuing the coercive measure, after a prior knowledge of it was postponed, after he was arrested in an operation that took place in a town in Juan Dolio, where they found weapons and drugs. In the discovery, authorities confiscated 91 kilograms of cocaine in 88 packages.
The judge accepted the request of the Public Ministry regarding the accusations, related to actions related to drug trafficking.
Julito Kilo is accused by the Public Ministry and the National Directorate of Drug Control (DNCD) of several crimes and assassins related to the drug business.
According to those revealed by prosecutor Idalia Jiménez, the Public Ministry has 47 pieces of evidence against the defendants, which will be presented in the trial.
According to intelligence reports managed by the authorities, Julito Kilo was considered the most important and violent drug trafficker operating today.
De los Santos Bautista was captured last Saturday by members of the National Directorate for Drug Control in an operation that said they were using high-tech equipment.
The defendant was arrested and convicted in the United States and repatriated to the Dominican Republic after serving his sentence and was involved in several cases.
In 2019, he was arrested on Avenida del Puerto by a patrol that found several illegal weapons, on which occasion he was imposed a periodic coercive measure and was linked to several crimes and illicit actions related to drug trafficking. authorities.