At least 40 Dominican convicts who served sentences on US soil were deported by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorities in the United States, amid the Covid pandemic19.
With this amount, there are 496 creoles deported from the United States in the first four months of this year 2020, after serving time in US jails.
Of the returnees, according to the authorities, 38 correspond to men and only two women. Ex-convicts are between the ages of 28-48.
According to the statistics provided, of the 40 repatriated Dominicans, 25 of them served sentences for drug distribution and sales, homicides, and rape, for which they served sentences of between 10 and 15 years.
Meanwhile, the rest served lesser sentences for driving while intoxicated, domestic assault, fights, illegally residing in the United States, falsification of documents and credit cards
The group was transported to the country in a plane chartered by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service, ICE, which landed at Las Americas International Airport.
While from the Las Américas terminal, they were transferred in two buses to an isolation center where they must serve at least 14 days of quarantine on suspicion that they may be infected with the coronavirus.
It is recalled that last year 2019 the US government deported 1,725 former Creole prisoners who served 10 and 15-year terms in US prison facilities to the Dominican Republic.
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