Man sentenced to 20 years for homicide turns himself in in SFM 🚨
Slater Miguel Celestino Burgos turned himself in to the authorities in San Francisco de Macorís to serve a 20-year prison sentence. 📌
Our people in the diaspora, always keeping up with what's happening back home, are finding out that justice is taking its course in the Jaya. 💬 Slater Miguel Celestino Burgos, 32 years old, decided to surrender voluntarily to the investigators of the DICRIM Homicide Division in San Francisco de Macorís. 📍
The citizen appeared at 11:20 on the morning of Wednesday, October 7, accompanied by his legal representative, lawyer Eusebio Jiménez Celestino, to answer to an arrest warrant against him to execute a final sentence. 📄
The court file indicates that the First Collegiate Tribunal of the Judicial District of Duarte had found him guilty on June 17, 2021, on charges of voluntary homicide and violations related to the use of firearms following the death of Emilio José Faña Abreu. ⚖️
Said sentence was confirmed by the local Court of Appeal and, subsequently, on March 31, 2025, the Supreme Court of Justice ratified the ruling by rejecting the appeal for cassation, which led the Sentence Execution Court to issue the order this past June 2. 📅
