BOSTON — A Dominican drug trafficker who was jealous of David Ortiz and felt disrespected by him had him shot at a Dominican nightclub in 2019, in line with personal investigators the Red Sox slugger employed to look into the assault that almost killed him.
The findings by former Boston police commissioner Edward Davis reported by the Boston Globe on Saturday contradict the speculation of the crime developed by Dominican prosecutors.
Davis informed the newspaper that he recognized the drug-trafficker César Peralta as having orchestrated the taking pictures by putting a bounty on Ortiz and sanctioning the hit squad that attempted to kill him. Dominican authorities didn’t cooperate with the personal investigation.
Peralta is being held in held with out bail in Puerto Rico on unrelated fees of conspiracy to import cocaine and heroin. The U.S. Treasury designated Peralta a drug kingpin in 2019 and he was extradited to the U.S. territory in December.
Ortiz’s spokesperson, Joe Baerlein, informed the Globe that Davis’ findings have been withheld for Ortiz’s security till Peralta was in U.S. custody.
