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		</div><h6 class="postid-14767999"><strong><span style="color: #302929;">Fed agents in Colombia on Monday arrested alleged a fugitive drug kingpin from neighboring Dominican Republic, who at one point was rumored to be involved in the shooting of a baseball great</span></strong></h6>
<h6 class="postid-14767999"><strong><span style="color: #302929;">Described as the Dominican Republic’s most notorious drug trafficker, 44-year-old César Emilio Peralta, aka “César the Abuser,” was arrested Monday in Cartagena, Colombia on a US warrant charging him with cocaine and heroin distribution</span></strong></h6>
<h6 class="postid-14767999"><strong><span style="color: #302929;">Feds in South Florida and Puerto Rico have issued an extradition request for Peralta</span></strong></h6>
<h6 class="postid-14767999"><strong><span style="color: #302929;">He&#8217;s accused of running an operation that moved cocaine and heroin through Colombia, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, Europe and the United States </span></strong></h6>
<h6 class="postid-14767999"><strong><span style="color: #302929;">Peralta’s name cropped up in June when 43-year-old Red Sox legend David Ortiz was shot in the back at a popular night club in the Dominican city of Santo Domingo.</span></strong></h6>
<h6 class="postid-14767999"><strong><span style="color: #302929;">Shortly after the shooting, local reports speculated that the hit was ordered by Peralta over a love triangle involving Dominican model Maria Yeribell Martinez Garcia </span></strong></h6>
<h6 class="postid-14767999"><strong><span style="color: #302929;">Peralta hasn’t been charged in the Ortiz shooting and authorities haven’t presented any evidence linking him to the case</span></strong></h6>
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<h6 class="wp-caption-text featured"><img class="alignnone wp-image-337799" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/César-Emilio-Peralta-1.jpg" alt="César Emilio Peralta, 1" width="695" height="461" /><strong>Dominican Republic’s most notorious drug trafficker, César Emilio Peralta, [photo], once rumored to be involved in the shooting of Red Sox legend David Ortiz, was arrested on Monday in Colombia on a US warrant for cocaine and heroin distribution</strong></h6>
<div><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Agents in Colombia have arrested Dominican Republic’s fugitive top drug kingpin.</span></div>
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<p>That country&#8217;s most notorious drug trafficker, who was once rumored to be involved in the shooting that wounded Red Sox legend David Ortiz, was taken into custody in Colombia&#8217;s Boca Grande section on Monday.<br />
César Emilio Peralta, also known as “César the Abuser” or <span class="html-render">as “El Abusador,” </span>, was taken into custody Monday in Cartagena, Colombia on a US warrant charging him with cocaine and heroin distribution, the attorney general’s office in Colombia announced.<br />
Federal prosecutors in<span class="html-render"> South Florida and Puerto Rico </span>have issued an extradition request for the 44-year-old Peralta.<br />
He is accused of running an operation that moved cocaine and heroin through Colombia, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic and the United States.<br />
Peralta’s name cropped up in June when 43-year-old <a href="https://konniemoments.com/2019/06/12/shooter-and-bike-rider-in-attack-on-red-sox-legend-david-big-papi-ortiz-arrested-hit-was-a-sophisticated-job-involving-two-cars-which-stalked-the-baseball-star-before-he-was-gunned-down-by-two-m/">Ortiz was shot in the back at a popular night club</a> in Santo Domingo.<br />
Shortly after the shooting, news reports speculated that the hit was ordered by Peralta over a love triangle involving Dominican model Maria Yeribell Martinez Garcia.</p>
<h6><strong><img class="" src="https://i0.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/David-Ortiz-5.png?resize=620%2C731&;ssl=1" alt="David Ortiz 5" width="794" height="936" />Investigators said retired baseball legend David Ortiz [photo], was mistakenly shot in a botched hit job targeting Sixto David Fernández at the behest of Victor Hugo Gomez Vasquez</strong></h6>
<p>But investigators said the retired slugger was mistakenly shot in a botched hit job in the Caribbean nation, targeting Sixto David Fernández, at the <a href="https://konniemoments.com/2019/07/01/victor-hugo-gomez-vasquez-the-mastermind-behind-shooting-that-severely-injured-retired-baseball-star-david-ortiz-paid-only-a-third-of-the-30000-blood-fee-to-arrange-the-assassina/">behest of Victor Hugo Gomez Vasquez.</a><br />
Before his June 28 arrest, Vasquez released a video denying any involvement in the shooting and claiming Fernández was close with Peralta, without elaborating.<br />
Dominican-born Ortiz once owned an apartment in the same luxury tower as Peralta, and the pair reportedly acknowledged each other when they crossed paths.<br />
“No one in the Dominican Republic ever wanted to be an enemy of Peralta because everybody knew he was part of this [alleged] drug cartel,” Joe Baerlein, a spokesman for Ortiz said over the summer.<br />
Peralta hasn’t been charged in the Ortiz shooting and authorities haven’t presented any evidence linking him to the case.<br />
In August, the feds and Dominican law enforcement raided Peralta’s penthouse.<br />
Some 18 suspects, including ex-Mets pitcher Octavio Dotel and infielder Luis Castillo, were nabbed in the sweep, though Peralta wasn’t captured at the time.<br />
Dominican prosecutors claimed that Peralta often leaned on MLB stars in order to launder cash from the proceeds of his empire.</p>
<h6><img class="alignnone wp-image-337812" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Octavio-Dotel-left-and-Luis-Castillo-1.jpg" alt="Octavio Dotel [left], and Luis Castillo 1" width="865" height="574" /><strong>In August former MLB stars Octavio Dotel [left], and Luis Castillo [right], were both cleared of charges with being members of Peralta’s drug distribution ring in Dominican Republic after they were snared in a raid of the drug kingpin&#8217;s home</strong></h6>
<h6><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-337815" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Dominican-fed-agents-raid-Cesar-Peraltas-home-1.jpg" alt="Dominican fed agents raid Cesar Peralta's home 1.jpg" width="1286" height="857" />In late August Dominican Fed agents carried out a raid on the penthouse home of Cesar Emilio Peralta in the Naco Blue Tower building where Ortiz used to reside.</strong></h6>
<p>Dotel and Castillo were charged with being members of Peralta’s cocaine and opioid empire in what Dominican Republic Attorney General Jean Alain Rodriguez said was the nation’s largest operation targeting an organized-crime ring.<br />
Ultimately, both Dotel and Castillo were cleared of any wrongdoing after a local federal judge ruled there wasn’t enough evidence to try them on money-laundering charges.<br />
Ultimately both former MLB stars walked free from a jail in the Dominican Republic after a judge suddenly ruled there wasn’t enough evidence to link either man to drug Peralta. Judge José Alejandro Vargas declared that the drug-trafficking charges against the men were without merit.<br />
Peralta is wanted for the distribution of thousands of kilos of cocaine and marijuana from Colombia to the US and Europe, lived in the penthouse of the Luxury Naco Blue Tower building, where Ortiz also had an apartment, before he decided to sell it<br />
In August Dominican federal agents, wielding automatic weapons and their faces covered with black balaclavas stood sentry outside the luxury Tower while their counterparts searched Peralta’s apartment on the 15th floor.<br />
Earlier, they had arrested Peralta’s wife, Marisol Franco, on suspicion of money laundering. Federal agents also took her four children into custody.</p>
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Alleged drug kingpin, rumored to be involved in shooting of baseball’s David Ortiz in the Dominican Republic, arrested on the run in Colombia
