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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