Authorities on Saturday announced the arrest of Julio de los Santos Bautista, better known as “Julito Kilo”, who is accused of contract killer and drug trafficking. It’s not the first time he’s been arrested though, as he has a long history with justice spanning the past decade.
Nearly two years ago, de los Santos Bautista was captured, carrying five firearms, while traveling on an avenue near the floating bridge, along with three other people, who also have criminal records.
In July 2016, “Julito Kilo” was involved in an investigation into drug trafficking. At the time, the National Drug Control Directorate (DNCD) seized some 953 kilos of cocaine from Colombia on Caletón Beach in San Pedro de Macorís.
That month they arrested de los Santos Bautista, Robert Víctor Muñoz Félix, Cristian Marte Rosado and Colombians Erly Sierra Bonilla and Omar Atencion Vargas, although the DNCD stated in its report that the illegal substance belonged to the recently arrested person.
For this reason, the judicial office of the San Pedro de Macorís permanent fraud forces dictated a year of preemptive detention against “Julito Kilo” and designated him as the leader of a drug trafficking network.
A month later, the Specialized Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Office seized five properties: a house, a fishmonger in the Vitania residential area of San Pedro de Macorís, a building with three apartments, the “Super Bodega” company and a Wash ” located on the promenade of that province.
In 2014, the National Police arrested him again, although he was released without authorities providing reasons.
A year earlier, it was associated with 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 the Macorís.
However, that same year, he was accused of being a hit man, along with six other people, in the murder of Nicolás Salas, also known as Toño, which took place after he was kidnapped and left injured in the thickets of the Tierra Alta community. , Boca. Chica.
Similarly, on October 20, 2012, a San Pedro de Macorís court imposed a coercive measure consisting of an economic guarantee, periodic presentation and disqualification, following allegations of participation in the death of Juan Gabriel Salas Polanco, aka “Tételo”.
Likewise, he was tried on December 3, 2011 for his involvement in the murder of former Dominican Navy member and National Investigations Department (DNI) member Abel Daniel Ollé Rafa.
Freedom
Despite the fact that the authorities had brought charges against “Julito Kilo” as many as six times, he was always released and the charges were dropped on several occasions.
In the 2011 case, regarding his connection to Ollé Rafa’s death, he was fired “for lack of evidence”.
Likewise, with the deaths for which he was investigated in 2013, he was paroled by a judge from San Pedro de Macorís, while he was released upon his arrest in 2014 without authorities providing reasons.
Something similar happened with the drug trafficking allegations in 2016, since the collegiate court of the San Pedro de Macorís Ministry of Justice sentenced the two Colombians to 20 years in prison and de los Santos Bautista fired in 2019.
Deportee
The clashes between “Julito Kilo” and the judiciary are not limited to the Dominican Republic, as he was deported from the United States after serving a seven-year sentence on a drug-related case, which was not possible in the country, despite his long criminal record.