{"id":134528,"date":"2026-08-17T22:13:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T02:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/suspect-arrested-for-the-murder-of-a-man-who-was-defending-his-grandson-in-cotui\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T22:13:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T02:13:55","slug":"suspect-arrested-for-the-murder-of-a-man-who-was-defending-his-grandson-in-cotui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/national\/suspect-arrested-for-the-murder-of-a-man-who-was-defending-his-grandson-in-cotui\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect arrested for the murder of a man who was defending his grandson in Cotu\u00ed"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Alleged suspect in homicide during robbery captured in S\u00e1nchez Ram\u00edrez<\/h2>\n\n<p>National Police agents, through members of the DICRIM and the prevention unit, managed to capture Fernando Jos\u00e9 Cruz Mej\u00eda, known as &#8220;El Blate,&#8221; 23 years old. The young man was actively sought by the authorities on charges of having participated in the murder of Jes\u00fas Mar\u00eda Antonio Vargas G\u00f3mez, nicknamed &#8220;Suma,&#8221; in an incident that occurred in the Vista del Valle sector.<\/p>\n\n<p>The arrest of Cruz Mej\u00eda, a resident of the Guan\u00e1bano community, was executed in compliance with arrest warrant number 2026-AJ0070342, issued by Magistrate Francisca Almonte Pichardo. The judicial file directly links him to the tragic event where Vargas G\u00f3mez lost his life.<\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Case details<\/h3>\n\n<p>According to preliminary investigations, the incident originated when the defendants attempted to rob the victim&#8217;s grandson of his cell phone. While trying to defend the minor, &#8220;Suma&#8221; was fatally shot by the aggressors.<\/p>\n\n<p>When questioned by the authorities, the detainee denied the charges brought against him. Meanwhile, the National Police maintains an active search for another suspect linked to the crime, identified as Joan Omar Leonardo Rodr\u00edguez, alias &#8220;Fugao,&#8221; who remains a fugitive from justice.<\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Legal charges<\/h3>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Violation of various articles of the Dominican Penal Code.<\/li><li>Infringement of articles 66 and 67 of Law 631-16 on the Control and Regulation of Weapons, Ammunition, and Related Materials.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<p>The detainee will be placed at the disposal of the Public Prosecutor&#8217;s Office in the coming hours to face the corresponding charges before the courts of S\u00e1nchez Ram\u00edrez.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alleged suspect in homicide during robbery captured in S\u00e1nchez Ram\u00edrez National Police agents, through members of the DICRIM and the prevention unit, managed to capture Fernando Jos\u00e9 Cruz Mej\u00eda, known as &#8220;El Blate,&#8221; 23 years old. The young man was actively sought by the authorities on charges of having participated in the murder of Jes\u00fas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":134529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12809],"tags":[726,13419,4011,10995],"class_list":{"0":"post-134528","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national","8":"tag-assault","9":"tag-dicrim","10":"tag-homicide","11":"tag-sanchez-ramirez"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}