The Public Prosecutor’s Office appealed the recent court decision that allowed for RD$50 million bail and impediment to leave the country for Antonio and Maribel Espaillat, key figures in the ...

The preliminary official report on the collapse of the roof of the JetSet Club on 8 April 2025 with at least 236 dead and more than 180 injured points to the overloading of its roof as the main cause.

A Dominican Republic government report said that the April roof collapse at a Santo Domingo club that killed 236 people and injured 200 was a tragedy set in motion by the greed of its owners. The ...

A damning report by the Attorney General’s Office has exposed the venue’s poor maintenance. A judge will decide on Wednesday whether the nightclub owners will remain in pretrial detention ...

Antonio Espaillat was arrested after evidence showed he ignored suggestions he cancel the concert — where 236 people died — because the roof was in danger of collapsing.

Antonio Espaillat, the owner of a Dominican Republic nightclub where more than 200 people died after the establishment’s roof ...

Antonio Espaillat and his sister Maribel Espaillat were taken into custody Thursday, June 12, the Associated Press reported. Authorities have 48 hours to bring charges before a judge.

NEED TO KNOW Jet Set owner Antonio Espaillat and his sister Maribel Espaillat have been arrested The Santo Domingo nightclub was the site of 236 fatalities when the building’s roof collapsed in April ...

Jet Set Nightclub owner Antonio Espaillat and manager Maribel Espaillat were both arrested last Thursday, June 12, and charged with involuntary homicide for their involvement in the nightclub’s ...

Sibling club owners Antonio and Maribel Espaillat, who were arrested last week, overloaded the building’s roof, made structural changes without permits and refused to call off the ill-fated ...

Antonio Espaillat and Maribel Espaillat have not been charged in the case, although authorities have 48 hours to present any charges before a judge.