Police agents working for the Human Trafficking and Trafficking Investigation Department, of the Central Investigation Directorate (Dicrim), arrested a German man accused of recruiting minors to exploit them sexually and make pornographic videos of them in a villa in the Puerto Plata province. The National Police reported in a statement that the detainee is Werner Hubert Marchenbeck, 59 years old.
The arrest of the foreigner was carried out on January 20 in coordination with the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office for Illicit Smuggling of Migrants and Human Trafficking, with the support of the Central Directorate of Tourism Police (Politur), the Special Division for the Investigation of Transnational Crimes (DEIDET), and the Puerto Plata Prosecutor’s Office,” according to police reports.
In addition, the intervention had the support of the NGOs Operación Underground Railroad, and Destiny Rescue. “These actions gave rise to arduous investigative and intelligence work that resulted in the arrest of Hubert Marchenbeck,” he said. According to the case report, a large number of sex toys, condoms, and cell phones were found in the raided villa. For this case, the Judicial Office of the Permanent Attention Service of Puerto Plata, sentenced Werner Hubert Marchenbeck to three months in prison as a measure of coercion.