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The Department of Justice announced on Wednesday that the Carolina Prosecutor’s Office has filed four criminal charges against 23‑year‑old Francheska Lee Ortiz Machado. The charges allege that Ortiz Machado assaulted and threatened her adoptive parents, who are 65 and 67 years old. According to the investigation, on October 19 Ortiz Machado allegedly used a metal chair to damage the door of her adoptive mother’s residence and then struck her mother in the face with the same object. On October 27, the indictment states that Ortiz Machado again threatened her adoptive mother and her 67‑year‑old adoptive father while holding a broomstick and insisting on entering the home. Prosecutors Kristia Díaz Pérez and Carlos Gómez González filed the four counts of assault on elderly persons under Article 127A of the Puerto Rico Penal Code. Judge Annette Santiago Díaz of the First Instance Court in Carolina granted an arrest warrant for the charges and set a global bail of $40,000. Ortiz Machado was taken into custody, and a preliminary hearing is scheduled for November 12. The investigation was conducted by Agent Brenda Massa of the Carolina Criminal Investigation Unit and Agent Jesús Rodríguez of the North Carolina Police Department. Article source: Presencia | Image credit: Presencia
The Department of Justice announced on Wednesday that the Carolina Prosecutor’s Office has filed four criminal charges against 23‑year‑old Francheska Lee Ortiz Machado. The charges allege that Ortiz Machado assaulted and threatened her adoptive parents, who are 65 and 67 years old. According to the investigation, on October 19 Ortiz Machado allegedly used a metal chair to damage the door of her adoptive mother’s residence and then struck her mother in the face with the same object. On October 27, the indictment states that Ortiz Machado again threatened her adoptive mother and her 67‑year‑old adoptive father while holding a broomstick and insisting on entering the home. Prosecutors Kristia Díaz Pérez and Carlos Gómez González filed the four counts of assault on elderly persons under Article 127A of the Puerto Rico Penal Code. Judge Annette Santiago Díaz of the First Instance Court in Carolina granted an arrest warrant for the charges and set a global bail of $40,000. Ortiz Machado was taken into custody, and a preliminary hearing is scheduled for November 12. The investigation was conducted by Agent Brenda Massa of the Carolina Criminal Investigation Unit and Agent Jesús Rodríguez of the North Carolina Police Department.
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