Current Disposition of
OMEGA 7 MEMBERS
[REF: binder part 7 ]
APPENDIX 1
CURRENT DISPOSITION OF OMEGA 7 MEMBERS
NAME
CONVICTED SENTENCED
Eduardo Victor, New York: 9/22/84; Life plus 35 years
Arocena Perez aka Omar, Miami: 2/12/85; 25 counts RICO, 23 counts weapons
and explosives charges, bombing related, first degree murder and attempted
murder of two foreign diplomats. Must serve 20-40 years before eligible
for parole. 20 years to serve concurrently with above sentence.
Pedro Crispin Remon New York: 6/26/84; Criminal contempt, failure to
testify before a Federal grand jury. 5 years
New York: 2/6/86; Pled guilty to conspiracy
to murder a foreign official and conspiracy to bomb and destroy property
of a foreign government. 10 years plus a $20,000 fine
Andres Garcia New York: 4/6/84; Criminal contempt, failure to
testify before a Federal grand jury. 5 years
New York: 2/6/86; Pled guilty to conspiracy to murder
a foreign official and conspiracy to bomb and destroy property of a foreign
government. 10 years plus a $20,000 fine.
Eduardo Losada Fernandez New York: 6/21/84; 5 years Criminal
contempt, failure to testify before a Federal grand jury.
New York: 2/6/86; Pled guilty to conspiracy
to murder a foreign official and conspiracy to bomb and destroy property
of a foreign government. 10 years plus a $20,000 fine.
Ramon Saul Sanchez New York: 5/7/84; 9 years. Criminal
contempt, failure to testify before a Federal grand jury.
Eduardo Feliciano Ochoa New York: 5/14/84; 6 years Criminal
contempt, failure to testify before a Federal grand jury.
Alberto Perez New York: 5/7/84; 4 years Criminal contempt,
failure to testify before a Federal grand jury.
Jose Julio Garcia, Jr. New York: 5/7/84 5 years. Criminal contempt,
failure to testify before a Federl grand jury. All suspended except
4 months Federal Probation in Newark, N.J.
Ernesto Gomez Miami: 10/2/84; Conspiracy and explosives
violations. Out on bond.
Gerardo Necuze Miami: 2/21/84; Conspiracy and explosives
violations. Out on bond.
Jose Ignacio Gonzalez Miami: 2/21/84; Fugitive. Conspiracy
and explosives violations. As of December, 1985,
believed to be in Guatemala
Justo Manuel Rodriguez, Miami: 2/21/84; Conspiracy
and explosives violations. Out on bond.
NOTE: Necuze, Gonzalez and Rodriguez entered into cooperative agreements
with Federal prosecutors. Necuze and Rodriguez testified against Arocena.
Gonzalez fled the country before testifying and remains a Federal fugitive.
Another factor which contributed to the success of Omega 7 was that law enforcement
authorities were initially unable to develop any suspects in the Omega 7
bombings and murders. This inability to develop suspects occurred because
none of the members of Omega 7, with the exception of Ramon Sanchez, were
known prior to Pedro Remon and Sanchez being stopped after the attack on
the Cuban Consulate in Montreal, Canada, in late 1980. Although all
the Omega 7 members had been active in the various anti-Castro groups, none,
other than Sanchez, had conducted any activity which would have drawn the
attention of law enforcement officials.
Another factor contributing to the inability of law enforcement officials
to develop suspects was the lack of cooperation of arrested Cuban militants.
When suspected militant Cuban exiles would be arrested on various charges,
they would often refuse, usually out of fear of retaliation, to provide information
the activities of other militant exiles. Instead, the arrested Cubans
would offer to provide information on the criminal activities of other nationalities,
particularly Chileans in the aftermath of the Letelier assassination.
Overall, this lack of prior violent anti- Castro activity, coupled with the
closed nature of the Cuban exile community to law enforcement officers investigating
Omega 7 and the coordinated efforts by the CNM to impede investigations by
claiming to be Omega 7, successfully obfuscated Omega 7 members from law
enforcement officials and helped contribute to the success of the Omega 7
attacks.
The split between Remon and Arocena in late 1980 also complicated the investigation
of Omega 7. After the split and Arocena's relocation to Florida an
entirely new group of individuals were recruited for Omega 7. This
complicated investigations because the geographic area of operation
for Omega 7 had shifted from northern New Jersey and the New York City area
to Miami, Florida. This change in geographic area of operation, coupled
with an influx of new members, made the group appear larger and better organized
than was originally believed. It also provided Omega 7 with a new area
of operation in which individual members were unknown and new recruits could
be obtained from the previously untapped Cuban exile community in Florida.
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