Authorities announced on Saturday the arrest of Julio de los Santos Bautista, better known as “Julito Kilo”, who is accused of murder and drug trafficking. However, this is not the first time he has been arrested, as he has a long history of justice spanning the last decade.
Nearly two years ago, de los Santos Bautista was captured, carrying five firearms, while traveling on a boulevard near the floating bridge, along with three other people, who also have a criminal record.
Until July 2016, “Julito Kilo” was involved in a drug trafficking investigation. At the time, the National Drug Enforcement Administration (DNCD) confiscated about 953 kilograms of cocaine from Colombia on Caletón Beach in San Pedro de Macorís.
De los Santos Bautista, Robert Víctor Muñoz Félix, Cristian Marte Rosado and Colombians Erly Sierra Bonilla and Omar Atencion Vargas were arrested that month, although the DNCD said in its report that the illicit substance belonged to the recently arrested person.
For this reason, the Judicial Office of the Permanent Care Services of San Pedro de Macorís sentenced him to one year of pre-trial detention against “Julito Kilo”, showing him as the leader of a drug trafficking network.
One month later, the anti-money laundering and anti-terrorist financing office confiscated five properties: a house, a fishmonger in the Vitania residential area of San Pedro de Macorís, a three-apartment building, the “Super Bodega” business and a “Washing Machine” located on the sidewalk of that province.
In 2014, the National Police arrested him again, although he was released without the authorities clarifying the reasons.
A year earlier, it was linked to the death of a man identified as Pedro Feliciano, who was found dead in the Higuamo River and that of an unidentified person, due to being burned in Cumayasa, San Pedro de Macorís.
However, in the same year he was accused of hitting a man along with six other people for the murder of Nicolás Salas, also known as Toño, who took place after he was abducted and wounded in the community thickets. Tierra Alta, Boca. Face.
Similarly, on 20 October 2012, a court in San Pedro de Macorís imposed a coercive measure consisting of an economic guarantee, a regular presentation and an impediment to exit, following allegations of participation in the death of Juan Gabriel Salas Polanco, alias “Tételo”.
Also, on December 3, 2011, he was brought to justice for his involvement in the murder of former member of the Dominican Navy and member of the National Department of Investigations (DNI), Abel Daniel Ollé Rafa.
Freedom
Despite the fact that the authorities have brought charges against “Julito Kilo” on at least six occasions, he has always been released, and on several occasions the charges have been dropped.
In the case of 2011, in connection with his connection with the death of Ollé Rafa, he was discharged “for lack of evidence”.
Likewise, with the deaths for which he was investigated in 2013, he received parole by a judge in San Pedro de Macorís, while in his arrest in 2014 he was released without the authorities clarifying the reasons.
Something similar happened with drug trafficking charges in 2016, when the Collegiate Court of the Department of Justice in San Pedro de Macorís sentenced the two Colombians to 20 years in prison and released los Santos Bautista in 2019.
Deported
Clashes between “Julito Kilo” and the judiciary have not been limited to the Dominican Republic since he was deported from the United States after serving a seven-year prison sentence for a drug trafficking case. was possible in the country, despite its long criminal history.