{"id":161604,"date":"2026-09-17T05:00:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T09:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/pretrial-detention-requested-for-homicide-of-man-in-herrera-santo-domingo-2\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T05:00:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T09:00:02","slug":"pretrial-detention-requested-for-homicide-of-man-in-herrera-santo-domingo-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/national\/pretrial-detention-requested-for-homicide-of-man-in-herrera-santo-domingo-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pretrial detention requested for homicide of man in Herrera, Santo Domingo"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Justice requests preventive detention for those involved in the death of Andy Louissant<\/h2>\n\n<p>The Public Prosecutor&#8217;s Office has formalized a request for pretrial detention against two men identified as responsible for the homicide of Andy Louissant, whose body was found hidden under a concrete structure in the Buenos Aires sector of Herrera, in Santo Domingo West.<\/p>\n\n<p>The individuals linked to this tragic event have been identified as Jos\u00e9 Antonio Mart\u00ednez Joseph, known as Mart\u00ednez, and Juan Gabriel Marte Ram\u00edrez, nicknamed el Diamante. The request for a coercive measure was filed with the Judicial Office of Permanent Attention Services of the National District, seeking to ensure the presence of the defendants during the course of the investigations.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Accusation details<\/h2>\n\n<p>According to the file presented by prosecutor Topacio Suero Sierra, assigned to the Department of Crimes and Offenses against the Person, the defendants allegedly acted in association to take Louissant&#8217;s life. The discovery of the body in a recent construction site has been one of the key points that has intensified the investigations by the authorities.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The prosecuting body seeks for the defendants to remain in pretrial detention while the investigations and the judicial process related to the case proceed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Next steps in the judicial process<\/h2>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The hearing to determine the coercive measure is scheduled for this Wednesday.<\/li><li>The court must evaluate the evidence presented by the Public Prosecutor&#8217;s Office to determine the severity of the actions of those involved.<\/li><li>It is recalled that, in accordance with Dominican legislation, the accused maintain their presumption of innocence until a final sentence is issued by the competent authorities.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<p>From Alofoke Deportes we will continue to follow the development of this case as the hearing progresses and the decisions made by the court regarding it.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justice requests preventive detention for those involved in the death of Andy Louissant The Public Prosecutor&#8217;s Office has formalized a request for pretrial detention against two men identified as responsible for the homicide of Andy Louissant, whose body was found hidden under a concrete structure in the Buenos Aires sector of Herrera, in Santo Domingo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":161605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12809],"tags":[1555,4011,14873,3801],"class_list":{"0":"post-161604","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national","8":"tag-herrera","9":"tag-homicide","10":"tag-pre-trial-detention","11":"tag-public-ministry"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161604","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=161604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}