{"id":502112,"date":"2026-03-13T16:58:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T20:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/man-involved-in-violent-robbery-in-the-national-district-sentenced-to-20-years-in-prison\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T16:58:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T20:58:40","slug":"man-involved-in-violent-robbery-in-the-national-district-sentenced-to-20-years-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/dominican-news\/justice\/man-involved-in-violent-robbery-in-the-national-district-sentenced-to-20-years-in-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Man involved in violent robbery in the National District sentenced to 20 years in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>SANTO DOMINGO.<\/strong> \u2013 A court in the National District sentenced <strong>20 years in prison<\/strong> to one of those involved in a robbery with violence and attempted murder against a merchant from a currency exchange house located in the <strong>Colonial Zone<\/strong>.\n\nThe condemned is <strong>Misael Mart\u00ednez Contreras<\/strong>, alias <em>Misael<\/em>, whose guilt was proven through the evidence presented by the Public Ministry, represented by the litigating prosecutor <strong>Julia Laury V\u00e1squez<\/strong>.\n\n\n<p><strong>You may be interested in:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/Tres meses de prisi\u00f3n a conductor acusado de causar accidente con dos muertos\">http:\/\/Tres meses de prisi\u00f3n a conductor acusado de causar accidente con dos muertos<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nAccording to the investigation, the events occurred on <strong>December 25, 2024<\/strong>, around <strong>1:45 PM<\/strong>, on <strong>Duarte Street corner El Conde<\/strong>, when several individuals attacked the victim while he was working in a currency exchange business.\n\nThe file states that the victim received <strong>multiple blows to the head with a brick<\/strong>, which caused <strong>extremely serious injuries<\/strong>, leading to their admission for more than <strong>a month in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU)<\/strong> of a private health center in the capital.\n\nAfter committing the assault, the accused stole <strong>the hard drive of the establishment's security camera system<\/strong>, as well as <strong>a million-dollar sum of cash<\/strong>.\n\nAs a result of the investigative work, the Public Ministry managed to <strong>identify and arrest the now-convicted on January 3, 2025<\/strong>, seizing <strong>a firearm that he was carrying illegally<\/strong>.\n\nThe <strong>Fourth Collegiate Court of the National District<\/strong> found Mart\u00ednez Contreras guilty of <strong>criminal association, attempted murder, aggravated robbery, and illegal possession of a firearm<\/strong>, in violation of articles <strong>265, 266, 2, 295, 296, 297, 302, 379 and 382 of the Dominican Penal Code<\/strong>, as well as articles <strong>66, 67 and 69 of Law 631-16<\/strong>, on the Control and Regulation of Weapons, Ammunition and Related Materials.\n\nIn the same process, <strong>other defendants<\/strong> were subjected, according to their degree of participation in the events. Likewise, <strong>a 15-year-old adolescent<\/strong> was brought before the corresponding jurisdiction, in accordance with the provisions of <strong>Law 136-03 on the Protection of the Fundamental Rights of Children and Adolescents<\/strong>.\n\nThe court, composed of judges <strong>Keyla P\u00e9rez Santana<\/strong> and <strong>Arisleyda M\u00e9ndez Batista<\/strong>, along with judge <strong>El\u00edas Santini<\/strong>, ordered that the convicted person serve the sentence in the <strong>Najayo Hombres Correction and Rehabilitation Center<\/strong>.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANTO DOMINGO. \u2013 A court in the National District sentenced 20 years in prison to one of those involved in a robbery with violence and attempted murder against a merchant from a currency exchange house located in the Colonial Zone. The condemned is Misael Mart\u00ednez Contreras, alias Misael, whose guilt was proven through the evidence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36952],"tags":[40706],"class_list":{"0":"post-502112","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-justice","7":"tag-condemnation"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Justice"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}