Taxi driver ran down transit cop, stays behind bars

A taxi driver who ran down a woman police officer while attempting to escape a checkpoint will remain behind bars in Chorrera for six months while investigations continue.

David Domínguez Montenegro, the man who ran over the Tránsit agent Marianela Chen in La Espiga de La Chorrera, was denied an appeal for the change of precautionary measure.

On Monday, September 17 the magistrates of the Superior Court of Appeals ratified the precautionary measure interposed by the judge of Guarantees, Xavier Alexis Flores, of granting provisional detention for a period of six months