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2/ Early that morning, Cruz's Jeep Grand Cherokee crashed into the back of a motorcycle driven by Yohan Saba Mercado, 20, on a desolate road on the island's southern coast. Yohan and his two passengers, Deby Beato Charles, 20, and Daniela Perez Garcia, 19, were killed.

3/ Police detained Cruz at the scene. In a court filing the next day, prosecutors said they'd opened an investigation and sought to keep him in custody. A press release alleged that Cruz “had consumed alcoholic beverages prior to the accident.”

4/ The scandal initially made headlines in the Dominican Republic and the United States. But in only a matter of days, it evaporated from the public eye. How that happened has been unknown, until now…