{"id":506069,"date":"2026-04-28T20:54:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T00:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/puerto-plata-court-sets-may-25-trial-against-lazaro-javier-tejeda-for-drugs\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T20:54:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T00:54:31","slug":"puerto-plata-court-sets-may-25-trial-against-lazaro-javier-tejeda-for-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/puerto-plata-court-sets-may-25-trial-against-lazaro-javier-tejeda-for-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Puerto Plata Court sets May 25 trial against L\u00e1zaro Javier Tejeda for drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"Puerto Plata.\u2014<\/strong>Citizen L\u00e1zaro Javier Tejeda Rodr\u00edguez faces criminal proceedings in the Judicial District of Puerto Plata for alleged violations of Law 50-88 on Drugs and Controlled Substances, while remaining at liberty awaiting the continuation of the trial scheduled for May 25, 2026.\n\nAccording to hearing record No. 272-02-2025-TACT-00302, corresponding to unique case 2034-2022-EPEN-00750, the hearing held on February 19, 2026, was adjourned by the Collegiate Tribunal of the Criminal Chamber of the Court of First Instance of Puerto Plata, after accepting a request from the defense based on a medical certificate presented by the defendant.\n\nThe court, presided over by Judge Benecia Altagracia Rojas Cruz and composed of judges Jos\u00e9 Juan Jim\u00e9nez S\u00e1nchez and Jenny Amarilis Mart\u00ednez Rivera, set the new hearing for 9:00 in the morning of the aforementioned day.\n\n\n

Charges and Audience Development<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\nThe process is followed to the detriment of the Dominican State for alleged violation of articles 4 letter D, 5 letter A (in fine part), 28 and 75 paragraph II of Law 50-88, related to trafficking and other behaviors related to controlled substances.\n\nDuring the hearing, the defendant was not present, a condition attributed to his medical situation. Some summoned witnesses also failed to appear, including an agent from the National Drug Control Directorate (DNCD), while another agent was present before the court.\n\n\n

We recommend reading: National Police seizes homemade weapon, cartridges and arrests a person during operation in La Vega<\/a><\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n\n\nThe Public Ministry, represented by prosecutor Jes\u00fas Ernesto Valenzuela, did not oppose the postponement requested by the defense, considering that it was a petition based on law.\n\n\n

Identity and documents under verification<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\nIn parallel to the judicial process, information has emerged about possible inconsistencies in identity documents associated with the accused.\n\nAmong these is a Cuban passport in which he appears as L\u00e1zaro Javier Tejera Rodr\u00edguez, born in Havana in 1972. Likewise, there are references to documentation of alleged Colombian origin with different data, which raises doubts about the possible use of more than one identity or nationality.\n\nThese pieces of information are not directly part of the ongoing legal case file and are kept under verification.\n\nThe next hearing will be key to the continuation of the knowledge of the process, in which the appearance of the accused and the pending witnesses is expected.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Puerto Plata.\u2014Citizen L\u00e1zaro Javier Tejeda Rodr\u00edguez faces criminal proceedings in the Judicial District of Puerto Plata for alleged violations of Law 50-88 on Drugs and Controlled Substances, while remaining at liberty awaiting the continuation of the trial scheduled for May 25, 2026. According to hearing record No. 272-02-2025-TACT-00302, corresponding to unique case 2034-2022-EPEN-00750, the hearing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-506069","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Ana Laura L\u00f3pez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2025-01-29-at-1.45.56-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506069","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\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}