Two Cubans were sentenced to 13 and four months in prisonor from aggravated pig theftin the department of Canelones, in Uruguay.
This was announced by the Canelones police headquarters in the South American country on Saturday a 44-year-old Cuban and another 33 – whom he did not identify by name – were sentenced to these sentences for continuing criminal offenses, which they will serve on probation (under supervision). rustle (cattle stealing).
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According to a police report quoted by local media, on June 11 members of the Rural Security Brigade arrested the 44-year-old Cuban man who was transporting 15 pigs in a truck because he did not have the appropriate permit to transport the animals.
The pigs were taken to “a rural operation off Route 32, km 25, within the jurisdiction of Section 21 Las Piedras,” the report said. The authorities carried out a search there They confiscated another 30 animals and arrested another 33-year-old Cuban national.
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The statement said the 44-year-old was sentenced to a 13-month suspended prison sentence following a court hearing for “being the criminally responsible perpetrator of a theft offense which, in concrete repetition, was particularly aggravated by continued theft offences.”
Meanwhile, the other Cuban has been sentenced to four months in prison, which he will also serve under supervision upon release, on charges of being responsible for a crime of rustling.
The detention of the Cubans was made public last June by local media, which then reported the arrest of a third Cuban, 56, who was accompanying the truck driver. However, it was not announced if he would be tried alongside his two compatriots.
Uruguay is one of them Common travel destinations for Cubans who migrate from the island due to the economic crisis and leave the island in search of better living conditions. Thousands of families have settled in the South American country in recent years.
However, in May it turned out to be the case 10,000 Cuban immigrants in Uruguay They could be left undocumented due to the new visa application requirements in the eastern country.
In April, the Uruguayan judiciary summoned 92 people to a trial at which 60 families were threatened with eviction Founder of the community known as the “Neighborhood of Cubans”.in the city of San José de Carrasco Norte, on the outskirts of the coastal city, in the department of Canelones, 26 kilometers from Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay.
The settlement, consisting of wooden houses and a few blocks, was built on the initiative of Cuban migrants on land owned by a hundred people, who founded two housing cooperatives in return for payment from a company.