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Federal court rules against local law that criminalizes ‘false alarms’ during public emergencies

By THE STAR STAFF

AU.S. federal district court has granted the American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) request to strike down a Puerto Rico law that made it a crime to knowingly raise a “false alarm” about public emergencies, holding that “[t]he watchdog function of speech is never more vital than during a large-scale crisis.”

The decision in Rodríguez Cotto vs. Pierluisi Urrutia issued March 31 was described by the ACLU as an important step in press freedom. The lawsuit was filed by independent journalist Sandra Rodríguez Cotto.

The court ruled that the law violated the First Amendment because its broad sweep created a danger of partisan abuse or selective enforcement, enabling the government to suppress or chill speech that contradicts its official narrative.

“[I]nstead of criminalizing speech,” the court observed, “the Legislature could simply have required the Government to use its multiple communications platforms to present a complete and accurate description of the facts” relating to emergencies in Puerto Rico.

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The ACLU and the ACLU of Puerto Rico argued that Puerto Rico’s law violated the First and 14th Amendments because its vague terminology and broad sweep gave people far too little guidance on what speech may constitute a crime, and the government far too much discretion in deciding whom to prosecute.

“This win sends an unequivocal message that, in Puerto Rico -- where transparency, accountability, and oversight is all but nonexistent -- the press cannot be silenced,” said William Ramírez, executive director of the ACLU of Puerto Rico.

The law threatened to chill reporting on the COVID-19 crisis and other emergencies because journalists risked prosecution if the government disputed the accuracy of their reporting.

“The declaration of a ‘state of emergency’ must never be used to promote censorship and repression,” said Fermín Arraiza, legal director of the ACLU of Puerto Rico. “This is an important victory for journalists in Puerto Rico and across the United States.”

While there is a law that bans raising a false alarm in relation to the occurrence of an imminent disaster, on April 6, 2020, the island Legislature amended the law to make it a crime to transmit or allow another person to transmit by any means, through any social network or mass media, false information with the intention of creating confusion, panic or collective public hysteria, regarding any proclamation or executive order decreeing a state of emergency, disaster or curfew. The plaintiffs challenged those provisions, essentially alleging that they were overbroad and imposed an impermissible content-based restriction on speech. In July, the Legislature further amended the law to make it a criminal offense for any person, natural or legal, who, after the governor of Puerto Rico has decreed by executive order a state of emergency or disaster, to purposely, knowingly or recklessly: give a warning or false alarm, knowing that the information is false, in relation to the imminent occurrence of a catastrophe in Puerto Rico; or disseminate, publish, transmit, transfer or circulate through any means of communication, including the media, social networks, or any other means of dissemination, publication or distribution of information, a notice or a false alarm, knowing that the information is false, when as a result of such conduct, the life, health, bodily integrity or safety of one or more persons are put at imminent risk or public or private property are endangered.

A person found guilty of violating that provision commits a misdemeanor with a penalty of up to six months of imprisonment, a fine of not more than $5,000, or both penalties, at the discretion of the court. The speech is considered a felony, carrying an imprisonment term of three years, if the notice or false alarm results in damages exceeding $10,000 to the public purse, third parties, or public or private property, or the conduct results in injury or physical harm to another person.

The ACLU and the ACLU of Puerto Rico filed the lawsuit on behalf of two journalists, Rodríguez Cotto and Rafelli González Cotto, who feared that the laws would be used to punish them for their reporting on public emergencies, especially reporting that reflects negatively on the government.

“No journalist in Puerto Rico should allow undue government interference to restrict the right to freedom of speech that is enshrined in both the federal and Puerto Rican constitutions, much less when a state of emergency is declared and in place,” Rafelli González Cotto said. “False information can be fought only with true information, not with threats of imprisonment and large fines under the criminal law.”

Sandra Rodríguez Cotto noted that she had already faced intimidation for attempting to report the truth when she was denounced by a former governor’s chief of staff after she disputed the plausibility of the government’s official death toll from Hurricane Maria. It eventually emerged that the hurricane claimed more than 3,000 lives, instead of the 64 deaths initially reported by the government.

“As journalists, our sole duty is to inform the public,” Rodríguez Cotto said. “Let this case serve as a reminder that we must be vigilant in defending the freedom of the press from any attempt to obstruct the public’s access to information.”

Journalist Sandra Rodríguez Cotto

Interagency protocol proposed to prevent abandonment of hospitalized seniors

By THE STAR STAFF

Developing a uniform interagency protocol that activates the relevant agencies when an unaccompanied older adult is admitted as a patient in a hospital was one of the proposals designed by a task force organized by Sen. Keren Riquelme Cabrera to deal with the crisis of the abandonment of elderly patients in health care facilities.

“The abandonment of elderly people in hospitals has become a real health situation,” the at-large senator said. “We must be proactive. Therefore, we are presenting our proposal to create a new uniform interagency protocol that is activated from the moment an older person, who cannot be identified, enters a hospital. That way, the corresponding agencies are aware of the admission, an agile protocol can be activated to investigate why they are alone, locate their relatives and plan the discharge process and subsequent care. In this way, we are placing greater safeguards to prevent them from being abandoned to their fate when they leave the hospital.”

“The fact that the agencies know

the pertinent data of the older adult supports the hospital system if he or she is abandoned since all the agencies working with this [protocol] already know about the case, and thus we cut

the time of response and intervention,” Riquelme added. “This new uniform protocol also provides a prevention mechanism since the agencies will be in continuous contact with the relatives

of the hospitalized person during their stay in the facility.”

The meeting of the working group took place last week in the José Joaquín “Yiye” Ávila room, located in the Baltazar Corrada del Río building at the Capitol. Administration for Families and Children (ADFAN by its Spanish acronym) head Glenda Gerena, Medical Services Administration social work supervisor María Rodríguez, and representatives from the Association of Retired Persons of America, the Office of the Elderly Advocate, the Association of Hospital Administrators, the Puerto Rico Teen Challenge program and Hogares Crea attended the meeting.

According to data provided by ADFAN, during the first three months of this year, 529 older adults were abandoned in hospitals throughout the island, almost double the figures from 2017 to 2019.

“Our legislative team is evaluating other proposals we will present to address this problem,” Riquelme said. “But, as I said, sitting idly by is not an option. Initiatives like this forum allow the free exchange of new ideas that help to mitigate the situation.”

Social workers urge proactive approach to ending child & youth abuse in PR

By THE STAR STAFF

Social Work Professionals Association of Puerto Rico President Krystal Pérez Martínez on Monday called for an end to disciplinary methods that are still used with children and young people and for making the entrenched existence of child abuse visible as a social problem on the island.

Pérez Martínez made the call as part of Child and Youth Abuse Prevention Month messaging in April.

“We call to make visible this social problem that has been present for decades and to educate ourselves on the power dynamics that affect the different modalities of abuse,” Pérez Martínez said in a press release. “It must be taken into account that [to address] this serious situation, structural approaches and measures are needed that configure the way we observe and exercise the upbringing, teaching and growth of children and youth.”

As an example of standardized disciplinary

methods, she referred to cases in which physical aggression and degrading words are still used as a method of disciplining.

“These disciplinary methods are given under the justification that they will prepare children to face difficult social interactions in their adulthood or as a relief solution for caregivers trying to change some behavior, when that is not the reality,” Pérez Martínez said. “We are hurting these children, developing people who can later present difficulties in social, emotional, mental, academic and work areas, among others.”

The deleterious effects of physical and verbal abuse on children have been corroborated by numerous investigations in social work, psychology and psychiatry, she noted.

“Therefore, it is the essential responsibility of agencies, both public and private, to educate our different professionals who provide services to families (caregivers, children, young people, couples, pregnant women, etc.) about the dynamics of domestic

violence and not continue to perpetuate the false notions we have created about abuse,” Pérez Martínez said.

According to the Child Abuse Profile –Interactive Report 2018-2022 issued by the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics, more than 5,000 minors are abused annually in Puerto Rico. The abuse rate is estimated at 10 minors for every 1,000 minors under the age of 18 in Puerto Rico.

“The three most predominant types of abuse are neglect (32.5%), emotional neglect (32.3%) and educational neglect (14.8%),” Pérez Martínez said. “In general terms, both boys and girls are mistreated in equal proportions, although in terms of sexual abuse, girls are abused in greater proportion (male, 18.4% and female, 81.6%). As for the relationship of the child with the perpetrators, in most cases the mother or biological father is the perpetrator.”

The large number of cases of child abuse in Puerto Rico represents an enormous chal-

lenge for the system and for social workers who lack the necessary resources to provide support in many situations involving child abuse,” Pérez Martínez said.

“It is known and it has been established that the agency that is responsible for taking on these cases is the Family Department (DF) … an agency that has proven not to have sufficient resources for the professionals to whom these cases are assigned,” she said. “As of January of this year there were still fewer than the required number of social workers working in the DF to attend to thousands of cases. They lack resources such as transportation, and work long shifts, without protection or security measures when visiting places known to be high-risk. Their working conditions do not allow them to address all these cases with the attention they deserve.”

Pérez Martínez urged citizens to report incidents of child abuse to the Abuse Hotline at 1-800-981-8333 or 787-749-1333, or by calling 911.

Sen. Keren Riquelme Cabrera

Real estate broker: Lawsuit filed by PIP legislators is part of broader agenda

By THE STAR STAFF

The head of a real estate company accused of illegal acts in handling properties declared public nuisances said Monday that Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP) lawmakers’ allegations against the firm are part of a broader political agenda.

PIP Sen. María de Lourdes Santiago Negrón and Rep. Denis Márquez Lebrón filed a complaint with the Department of Justice last week regarding an alleged scheme involving 22 municipalities, Universal Properties Realty and Francis & Gueits law firm in the handling of declarations of public nuisances and eminent domain proceedings. The lawmakers claimed that properties that were in good condition were declared a public nuisance and that the owners of the properties were not adequately notified of the decision or paid just compensation.

Universal Properties real estate broker Andrés Reyes urged the PIP lawmakers to broaden their investigation to include the nonprofit corporation Center for the Reconstruction of the Habitat Inc., which receives public funds from municipalities. The center’s website says it works to transform properties declared public nuisances into assets communities can use.

“Our company is legal, and all our documents prove it, so we have no problem with being audited,” Reyes said. “However, the investigation requested by the PIP legislators is incomplete unless all companies that offer management or advisory services on public nuisances for municipalities are investigated.”

“Santiago and Márquez held a press conference against our company …” he added. “Still, they did not mention the Center for the Reconstruction of the Habitat, which does

invoice public funds to the municipalities.”

Reyes said Center for the Reconstruction of the Habitat Inc., a nonprofit group, charges thousands of dollars to municipalities without achieving a single result, but was not included in the complaint. He said the Center is owned by Luis O. Gallardo, who previously ran for public office under the PIP banner.

Reyes charged that the PIP legislators made the accusations and used false information to manipulate public opinion and favor particular interests, including the Center for the

Reconstruction of the Habitat.

“The Center for the Reconstruction of the Habitat Inc. intends to monopolize the management of public nuisances using state and federal public funds through advisory contracts with various municipalities,” the broker said. “Among these, the cities of Loíza, Vega Alta, Barceloneta, Toa Baja, Hormigueros, Camuy, Isabela, Manatí and Ponce, amounting to more than half a million dollars.”

Reyes said the Center additionally bills municipalities for the legal representation fees required to carry out the necessary legal and judicial actions in the acquisition and disposition of properties in a condition of public nuisance, including the eminent domain or forced expropriation process, and the sale of properties in condition of public nuisance for an aggregate cost of up to $9,750 for each case presented in court. At that rate, he said, the Center’s efforts could amount to a total annual amount of $360,000 for each municipality.

He also said the nonprofit intends to integrate into the process of declaring public nuisances the creation of an organization known as “Community Land Banks,” through which it intends to grant the administration of the properties declared a public nuisance to a select group, private and autonomous and independent of the municipality, which would be responsible for disposing of the properties declared a public nuisance as it deems appropriate.

“This would give this group great decision-making and financial freedom over the disposition of the properties declared public nuisances, since [it] would be authorized to sell, donate, lease, and even carry out financing procedures,” Reyes said regarding the Center. “In addition, this organization would not have to submit to any government control because it would function as a private corporate entity.”

PDP resident commissioner hopeful calls on González Colón to clarify her alleged relationship with convicted businessman

By THE STAR STAFF

Pablo José Hernández Rivera, a pre-candidate for resident commissioner from the Popular Democratic Party (PDP), called on Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón on Monday “to be more honest and transparent about her relationship with [Oscar] Santamaría,” the businessman convicted of corruption and the star witness in the corruption case of former Guaynabo mayor Ángel Pérez Otero.

Hernández Rivera’s request came after the publication Sunday of an interview in a local media outlet in which the resident commissioner allegedly refused to answer a question about her relationship with the convict. Hernández Rivera said González Colón distanced herself from the convicted businessman in the interview by saying only that he was part of the New Progressive Party team but not part of hers.

Hernández Rivera, who is a lawyer, also said that during the trial of Pérez Otero, a recording was presented in which

Santamaría asks, “Jenniffer González? Have you let me go yet? I was good when I was helping her, when I looked after several candidates.”

“In politics you don’t have control over how you interact with people who end up being accused of corruption, but you do [need to] control how you react when those people are accused and convicted,” Hernández Rivera said in a written statement.

“González must better explain her relationship with the convicted businessman and return the money he donated to her,” he added.

The PDP pre-candidate went on to say that González Colón’s alleged relationship with Santamaría may have an impact on the allocation of federal funds to the island.

“One of the main obstacles to the reconstruction of Puerto Rico is corruption,” he said. “Resident Commissioner González’s relationship with people like Pérez and Santamaría weakens our credibility in Washington.”

Puerto Rican Independence Party Sen. María de Lourdes Santiago Negrón and Rep. Denis Márquez Lebrón

By THE STAR STAFF

After a March 13 cybersecurity incident on the platforms of the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority (PRASA), the agency has continued to collaborate with the relevant authorities -- the Office of Innovation and Technology Services of the Government of Puerto Rico (PRITS by its Spanish acronym), the FBI and the federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) -- with the investigation of the event, after which it was confirmed on March 25 that personal information of PRASA customers and employees was compromised.

According to Puerto Rico law, any agency that owns or keeps a database that includes personal information of citizens or residents of Puerto Rico must notify those citizens or residents of any breach of system security when the information banks whose security was breached contain all or part of their personal information file and it is not protected with cryptographic

keys beyond a password. Notification must occur within three business days of or upon becoming aware of the system security breach. According to the ongoing investigation, the nature of the personal information of citizens who could be at risk in the incident was: files containing combined name and surname or one or more of the following data: social security

number, driver’s licenses, electoral card, passports or other personal identification.

“PRITS and AAA continue to conduct a rigorous forensic investigation, with the support of the FBI,” PRASA Executive President Doriel Pagán Crespo said Monday. “At present, the number of people whose personal information was exposed has not been determined with certainty.”

The official noted what the agency has done to protect the citizen’s personal information from future system breaches.

“PRASA in coordination with PRITS has taken the necessary measures to strengthen the security mechanisms in PRASA’s information systems and reduce the possibility of an incident like this happening again,” she said. “Among the measures established are the following: eliminating the storage of copies of personal information of customers and using available government platforms to validate the identity of our customers.”

Pagán Crespo also urged “all of our customers to access their accounts and change their passwords periodically not only on the PRASA platform but on all platforms that have accounts.”

She invited citizens to visit https://www. protegetusdatos.pr.gov to avoid falling victim to a cyberattack. As a precautionary measure, PRASA is in the process of contracting the credit monitoring service for its active and inactive clients, employees and former employees. The service will be free of charge for those who wish to subscribe. Employees and former employees will receive a communication by postal mail that will indicate the steps to follow to register for the service. For customers with active and inactive accounts, PRASA will detail the steps to follow to register for the service by way of the service bill, the website on https://www. acueductospr.com, the customer service offices, and through the call center at 787-620-2482, or for the audio-disabled, at 787-679-7322.

Investigation of PRASA cyberattack proceeds apace Accident victim flees scene in ambulance

By THE STAR STAFF

Paramedics were robbed of their ambulance after they stopped to help an individual involved in an accident on highway PR-52 southbound between San Juan and Caguas, the Puerto Rico Police Bureau said Monday. According to the police report, Medina Ambulance paramedics were preparing to provide first aid to the injured party when he got out of his vehicle, got into the ambulance and sped away.

Later, San Juan Traffic Division agents found the stolen vehicle in front of the Santa Juana Condominium in the Villa Blanca neighborhood of Caguas.

The case was to be referred to the San Juan Stolen Vehicle Division for investigation.

Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority Executive President Doriel Pagán Crespo

According to a police report, Medina Ambulance paramedics were preparing to provide first aid to the injured party alongside highway PR-52 southbound when the man got out of his vehicle, got into the ambulance and sped away.

Trump flourishes in the glare of his indictment

By PETER BAKER

Since long before he entered the White House, former President Donald Trump has been an any-publicity-isgood-publicity kind of guy. In fact, he once told advisers, “There’s no bad press unless you’re a pedophile.” Hush money for a porn star? Evidently not an exception to that rule.

And so, although no one wants to be indicted, Trump in one sense finds himself exactly where he loves to be — in the center ring of the circus, with all the spotlights on him. He has spent the days since a grand jury called him a potential criminal milking the moment for all it’s worth, savoring the attention as no one else in modern American politics would.

He has blitzed out one fundraising email after another with the kind of headlines other politicians would dread, like

“BREAKING: PRESIDENT TRUMP INDICTED” and “RUMORED DETAILS OF MY ARREST” and “Yes I’ve been indicted, BUT” — the “but” being but you can still give him money. And when it turned out that they did give him money, a total of $4 million by his campaign’s count in the 24 hours after his indictment, he trumpeted that as loudly as he could, too.

Rather than hide from the indignity of turning himself into authorities this week, Trump obligingly sent out a schedule as if for a campaign tour, letting everyone know he would fly Monday from Florida to New York, then Tuesday surrender for mug shots, fingerprinting and arraignment. In case that were not enough to draw the eye, he plans to then fly back to Florida to make a prime-time evening statement at Mar-aLago, surrounded by the cameras and microphones he covets.

Never mind that any defense attorney worth the law degree would prefer he keep quiet; no one who knows Trump could reasonably expect that. He has already trashed the prosecutor (“degenerate psychopath”) and the judge in the case (“HATES ME”) and absent a court-issued gag order surely will continue to. His public comments could ultimately be used against him in a court of law, but to him, that hardly seems like a reason to stay silent.

“The trick, of course, is to take up all the air — demand all the attention, all the time, make everything, including his own indictment, into an opportunistic moment,” said Gwenda

Blair, author of “The Trumps,” the definitive multigenerational biography of the former president’s family. So far, she added, he has done so “by combining exaggerated hyperbole with a claim to ultimate patriotism and religious zeal — quite the ultimate power package.”

By treating the case as a spectacle, rather than a serious issue, he may discredit it, at least in the eyes of his own supporters. Rather than hang his head in shame, as many facing the possibility of prison might, he frames it as just another Trumpian drama in a life filled with them, the latest reality show cliffhanger — will he get off or will his enemies get him?

But the ratings-obsessed star’s need for the limelight invariably will draw it away from other issues of major import. The United States is in the middle of a nuclear-edged clash with Russia in Ukraine, and Moscow has just arrested an American reporter, provoking another hostage crisis. Taiwan’s president is visiting the United States at a moment of bristling tension with Beijing. Just Friday, America’s top general warned of the increasing convergence of a hostile Chinese-Russian-Iranian axis.

The indictment comes “at the exact moment when our military and economic power is being profoundly challenged by our adversaries,” said Heather Conley, president of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, a Washingtonbased organization focused on trans-Atlantic relations. “From a national security perspective, we need to keep our eye on

the ball. But unfortunately, our gaze on Tuesday will be on our own domestic turmoil.”

For President Joe Biden, who has assiduously avoided commenting on Trump’s legal travails, the first criminal prosecution of a former commander in chief will surely make it that much harder to generate interest in his dutiful speeches promoting the latest bridge project or other achievements he hopes to tout as he prepares to kick off a reelection campaign.

In today’s sizzle-saturated media environment, White House officials understand perfectly well that an incumbent president doing his job can hardly compete for attention with a former president possibly doing time. Instead, they hope the electorate appreciates a leader who ignores the Sturm und Drang to focus on matters such as the economy, health care and national security.

In some ways, Biden faces the challenge that President Gerald Ford did when he decided to pardon his predecessor, Richard Nixon, in the Watergate scandal. One of Ford’s advisers asked the Watergate prosecutor how long it would take to bring Nixon to trial if he were indicted and was told as long as a year. To Ford, it seemed too costly to have the country absorbed by a former president in the dock for so long.

But those were different times and different presidents. Nixon had resigned in disgrace, his party had abandoned him and he grudgingly offered a measure of contrition when pardoned, even if not nearly enough for many. There was a sense of a chapter closing. Trump feels anything but contrite and, instead of sliding into exile, is mounting a comeback campaign with the support of many in his party.

Barbara Res, who worked for Trump for 18 years as an executive at his development company and later broke with him, does not think Trump expects to be found guilty. “He’s incapable of believing that he’s wrong,” she said. And she doubted he would comply even with a gag order.

“To be honest, nobody tells Donald what to do. Really,” Res said. A judge, she said, may hesitate to enforce a contempt of court order. “Even people that hate Trump or dislike Trump would probably think it was not a good idea to put him in jail for contempt of a gag order,” she said. And so, she concluded, “He will not shut up.”

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The Mar-a-Lago Club owned by former President Donald Trump, who was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury on Thursday, in Palm Beach, Fla., March 31, 2023.

In days before Trump appears in court, few signs point to a Jan. 6 repeat

By GLENN THRUSH, ALAN FEUER and ADAM GOLDMAN

Former President Donald Trump’s expected appearance today in a Manhattan court is a volatile moment for the country with an unpredictable outcome, but law enforcement officials have not yet seen indications of a disruptive, organized backlash akin to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.

The New York City Police Department, state law enforcement agencies, the Secret Service and the U.S. Marshals Service have been coordinating efforts, while increasing intelligence gathering and mobilization. The police, for instance, sent a stand-ready order to about 35,000 officers, a force larger and better trained than some national armies.

Even as Trump’s coming arraignment reflects a different set of circumstances, the response is informed by lessons learned from the Capitol riot and from the challenges posed by the nationwide protests against police violence in 2020. They include the need to deploy forces quickly when threats pop up on social media, and the importance of sharing intelligence among agencies in real time, officials have said.

“At the moment, they are not seeing those threats, and the department has a lot of experience coordinating with the Secret Service and the court system, so that effort is not terribly concerning,” said Kenneth Corey, who retired late last year as chief of department, the highest-ranking uniformed officer in the New York Police Department.

“But there are still big unknowns — mainly the protesters,” he added. “Who shows up? How many show up? What kind of mood are they in?”

There is no guarantee law enforcement will detect every threat, even if the agencies involved work seamlessly. There could be concealed efforts or lone wolves motivated by incendiary messaging who will lash out, as was the case shortly before the Capitol was breached, when a pair of pipe bombs were found outside the nearby headquarters of the Republican and Democratic national committees.

But the FBI has not identified any specific threats, two officials with knowledge of the situation said. Because of that, the bureau, which was criticized for not publishing a bulletin before the Jan. 6 riot, has not distributed an intelligence bulletin to law enforcement, one of the officials said.

As of Sunday, neither law enforcement

officials nor outside experts have picked up evidence that Trump’s defenders or detractors are gearing up for a major event on a day when a man elected to the nation’s highest office will be booked in lower Manhattan.

The city’s police department, which has a sprawling, sophisticated intelligence operation that developed after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, has tracked isolated threats on social media, but it has yet to detect larger plans that might spur violence or mass disruption.

“The NYPD continues to monitor all activity, but there are no credible threats to the city at this time,” Fabien Levy, the press secretary for Mayor Eric Adams, said in an email.

It is not clear whether Trump plans to make a statement in New York after he is indicted, which could change that dynamic. But even if he does, the circumstances leading up to his court appearance Tuesday are markedly different from those in the run-up to the Capitol attack.

For starters, there are few, if any, signs that the overt coordination of mass protests that characterized the weeks and months before Jan. 6 have taken place.

Justice Department officials believe part of the reason is that the prosecutions of Jan. 6 suspects has helped deter those most likely to instigate violence.

More than 1,000 people who entered the Capitol or breached its grounds on Jan. 6 have been already charged with crimes, and hundreds more remain under investigation. Moreover, some of the chief organizers of the pro-Trump rallies that preceded the attack were swept up in the Justice Department’s vast

criminal inquiry, and some like Ali Alexander have said they have little interest in rallying on Trump’s behalf this time.

Thus far, Trump has not made any specific call to action for today. Doing so could be problematic for him: One of the possible crimes the Justice Department’s special counsel, Jack Smith, is investigating is Trump’s role in egging on protesters to disrupt congressional certification of President Joe Biden’s victory.

Before Jan. 6, pro-Trump chat boards like the TheDonald.win quickly filled up with comments by posters discussing plans about building gallows, occupying the Capitol, chasing lawmakers through the tunnels of the building and committing other forms of violence.

Advance Democracy Inc., a nonprofit that conducts public interest research, issued a report this weekend that determined that Trump’s supporters had not used the successor to the TheDonald.win — a website called Patriots.win — to make any clear-cut plans to engage in violence or even to discuss organizing large-scale activities surrounding his indictment in Manhattan.

Instead, the report found scattered comments both in pro-Trump chat boards and on wider social media sites calling for violence against Manhattan’s district attorney, Alvin Bragg, and the members of the New York City Police Department.

“This cannot go unpunished,” one commenter wrote shortly after the news of Trump’s indictment emerged. “The DA needs to pay dearly.”

New York City Police, despite a repu-

tation as one of the world’s premier departments, has had problems with responding to mass protests in the past. Officials were forced to revamp their training procedures after the chaotic and violent demonstrations spurred by the killing of George Floyd in 2020.

But the department has more experience in dealing with crises and mass demonstrations than its counterparts across the country, with ample personnel to respond to the kind of scenario that the Trump indictment might pose.

The Capitol Police, by contrast, is significantly smaller, with about 2,000 officers who have limited resources and experience. Moreover, the force had to rely on the FBI for intelligence — and the bureau failed to alert their partners of the threat of mass violence or the seditious conspiracies, blinded by a narrow focus on lone actors and a misguided belief that the threat from the far left was as great as that from the far right. Even the Capitol Police, which had correctly identified Congress as the target on Jan. 6, failed to prepare for that day adequately, deploying too few officers and failing to erect the physical barriers that would have helped protect Congress.

“There’s a difference in scale with the NYPD — they can push a button and get 1,000 officers,” said John Miller, the department’s former deputy commissioner for intelligence and counterterrorism, who served as a senior official at the FBI.

“Then if that isn’t enough, they can push the button again, and get another 1,000 without too much trouble,” he added.

Some of Trump’s most extreme supporters seem to recognize this fact.

“NYPD won’t fall as easily as Capitol police did,” one person wrote in a March 20 post on Patriots.win. “There needs to be multiple events to scatter and distract them. Be careful though. NYPD are brutal and even more so when protecting one of their own. They have militarized units that are trained to round up and kill.”

Robert Reilly, a former FBI agent in New Jersey who handled domestic terrorism cases, said the city itself is not as fertile a protest ground for conservative activists who were able to mobilize easily in Washington and during the violent neo-Nazi protests in 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia.

“This is New York City,” he said. “You’re not going get the protests you would in Charlottesville or the Capitol. It is too far and too many tolls and nowhere to park.”

New York Police Department officers around Manhattan Criminal Court, on March 31, 2023.

Another round of severe storms expected today from

By JESÚS JIMÉNEZ

As communities across the country Sunday recovered from a powerful storm system that killed at least 32 people in seven states, they have only a couple of days before facing another round of severe weather.

After destructive tornadoes and strong storms barreled through parts of the South, the Midwest and the East on Friday and Saturday, another storm system is expected to develop today, forecasters said.

The system could bring the potential for a “few strong tornadoes,” large hail and damaging wind gusts from Texas to Illinois, the National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center said.

Two areas are of great concern today: One stretches from northeast Texas through Arkansas and into southern Missouri, and another takes in northern Missouri, southeast Iowa and much of Illinois.

In these regions, where more than 18 million people live, the center said the risk of severe weather was “enhanced,” the thirdhighest category on a five-level risk scale.

Marc Chenard, a National Weather Service meteorologist, said that the risks from the storms today could be similar to the storm system that tore through several of the same states Friday and Saturday.

“It looks like, again, there will be the potential for some organized clusters of thunderstorms,” Chenard said, adding that they could produce damaging winds “and even some strong tornadoes.”

Forecast maps for Tuesday bear a resemblance to those of Friday’s storm system, with higher risks for severe weather centered on portions of Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa and Missouri.

Before today storm system, forecasters in Texas were eyeing the possibility of severe weather Sunday over a part of the state that includes the Dallas area.

The weather service reported a tornado was spotted just before 6 p.m. Central time near Thornton, a town about 40 miles east of Waco, Texas.

Dozens of counties in Texas and Louisiana were under tornado warnings or watches Sunday night, after earlier watches in Oklahoma had expired. Six Flags Over Texas, a theme park near Arlington, said it had closed because of the inclement weather. On Sunday night, about 17,000 customers were without power in Arkansas, and about 14,500 were without power in Texas, according to poweroutage.us.

“All severe hazards are possible,” the Storm Prediction Center said on Twitter, adding that large hail, wind gusts of up to 75 mph and “a strong tornado or two” were possible.

Although tornadoes can happen any

time of the year, historically, tornado activity in most states tends to peak in the spring. Still, it is uncommon for communities to face such a damaging storm system followed by another just a few days later.

The severe weather of the past two days comes just a week after a destructive storm system ripped through portions of the South, killing at least 26 people and flattening parts of Rolling Fork, Mississippi.

After ravaging at least seven states, the storm system that started Friday continued tracking east Saturday, producing strong winds and heavy rain and prompting temporary ground stops at airports in New Jersey, New York and Philadelphia.

Videos circulated online of a possible tornado on Saturday in Howell Township, New Jersey. The weather service said Sunday it would send out storm survey teams to assess damage there and other portions of New Jersey. Survey teams confirmed on Sunday that a tornado had struck near Jackson Township, New Jersey.

The weather service received more than 300 reports of strong winds Saturday, including one wind gust of 98 mph in Sussex County, Delaware, where officials said one person died in a structure collapse and where the weather service said a tornado struck the area on Saturday.

By Sunday, the weekend storm system had faded and drifted into the Atlantic Ocean, but several states will still be dealing with aftermath of the severe weather.

President Joe Biden on Sunday approved a disaster declaration for three counties in Arkansas, which will provide federal funding for recovery efforts.

In an undated image provided by the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center, forecasters have identified two areas of concern for Tuesday, April 4, 2023: from northeast Texas through Arkansas, and southern Missouri, northern Missouri, southeast Iowa and much of Illinois.

The value of regional banks

By JOE NOCERA and MICHAEL J. DE LA MERCED

Walk around any city in America and you can hardly miss the many branches of the Big Four banks: JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Citigroup. They’re almost as ubiquitous as gas stations. With their $1 trillion-plus in assets and national reach, the Big Four have dominated the banking landscape for the last quarter-century.

So it’s not surprising that following the failure of Silicon Valley Bank and other regional banks, some depositors raced to move their money to national banks, believing they offer more safety. The government won’t allow a “Too Big to Fail” bank to, well, fail, so customers know that even their uninsured deposits will be covered. But if a regional bank craters, uninsured deposits may not be recovered.

To some, this raises the question of whether the United States even needs regional banks. Wouldn’t letting the Big Four just buy all the regional banks make the banking system both safer and more efficient?

But banking experts are quick to defend the value of regional banks, and to understand why, a short history lesson helps. The country has long had a fear of big banks, and for decades banking law forbade banks from crossing state lines. The idea was that a local banker understood his community better than

a big, impersonal bank and would make loans that the big bank wouldn’t. This was especially important to farmers, who often needed their banker to be patient in years when bad weather meant poor crops.

In 1994, Congress allowed banks to cross state lines while also allowing bank mergers. And merge the banks did — from 1995 to 2001, the number of banks shrank to 4,200 from 10,000. At the same time, the number of branches rose, to 72,000 from 59,000, as national banks spread.

If only deposits mattered, national banks would be all you need. But for farmers, startups, small businesses and companies in certain sectors, what matters most is the ability to get a loan. And here, experts say, is where the regional banks often make more sense than the Big Four.

“The big national banks are operating in the global capital markets,” said Robert Hockett, a professor at Cornell Law School and banking expert. “A lot of their assets are based on speculation. They’re not fueling economic growth. They’re not funding new companies. Or farms. You need patient capital for that, and capital at the Big Four is not patient.”

“Regional banks have a combination of regional knowledge and expertise that makes lending more efficient,” said C. Michael Zabel, a former executive at M&T, the Buffalobased regional bank. “They’re also more likely to put deposits to work in their community.”

Silicon Valley Bank was a classic “sector bank.” It understood its sector — venture capitalists and technology startups — and made loans that national banks would never have countenanced. Its failure was caused by risk management mistakes, not its startup-heavy loan portfolio, which was sound and has been happily taken over by First Citizens Bank.

Comerica, the Dallasbased regional bank, offers another example. In addition to offering traditional mortgage lending, it has etched out specialties in female-owned businesses and renewable energy companies, among others. Nearly every regional bank is maniacally focused on specific sectors. That’s how they’ve survived during 25 years of bank consolida-

tion.

The problem is that you can’t make loans if you don’t have deposits. Right now, said Mark Williams, who teaches finance at Boston University, “there is a giant sucking sound, with the big banks sucking up all the deposits from the regionals.”

And while that may bring about a sense of relief for depositors, it’s ultimately not healthy for the banking sector.

Why didn’t the credit rating agencies see chaos coming?

Those looking to assign blame for the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, and the wave of chaos that arose from its failure, have pointed fingers at bank executives and regulators. But there’s another set of watchdogs that didn’t see the chaos coming: the major credit rating agencies, Moody’s, Standard & Poor’s and Fitch.

Fifteen years ago, they were blamed not only for failing to identify the dangers of the mortgage-backed securities that led to the global financial crisis but also for turning a blind eye. But how much blame they should shoulder this time is less cut and dried.

What did the agencies say in the runup to the SVB crisis?

They correctly identified as risks some of the factors that led to Silicon Valley Bank’s demise months ago, including the effect of central banks’ raising interest rates on the assets that lenders held. Standard & Poor’s also revised Silicon Valley Bank’s rating outlook to stable, from positive, in November.

But none of the agencies actually moved to downgrade SVB until Feb. 27 — the first business day after the lender published its annual report — when Moody’s analysts said they were weighing a downgrade. Bank executives spoke with Moody’s the following week, urging the agency to hold off while they sought to raise $2.5 billion in capital that

week. Moody’s eventually cut SVB’s rating by one notch on March 8, the day the bank announced its fundraising plan.

What took the agencies so long?

They say they take longer-term views on companies and don’t adjust based on potentially temporary factors like fluctuating values of banks’ asset holdings, an approach called rating through the cycle.

“Agencies tend to be reluctant to downgrade until they’re confident any increased risk isn’t fleeting,” said Samuel Bonsall, a professor at Penn State University’s Smeal College of Business.

Others take a blunter view: “The credit rating guys tend to be slow in changing their opinions,” said Lawrence White, a professor at the NYU Stern School of Business.

Would tighter regulation have prevented this?

Congress approved a number of ways to increase oversight of the ratings agencies via the Dodd-Frank banking overhaul in 2010. Yet many of those steps, including recommending alternative business models or increasing legal liability for bad ratings, weren’t actually put into practice, partly because of lobbying by the agencies.

“There is little penalty from ratings being stale or wrong,” said Frank Partnoy, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law.

But others questioned whether those changes would have changed the outcome.

“Nothing the SEC could have done or will do would deal with the fact that the credit rating agencies weren’t paying attention,” White said.

From the perspective of the agencies, Silicon Valley Bank was the victim of an extraordinary bank run, and had its capital-raising succeeded, the lender would have survived.

S&P 500, Nasdaq fall as inflation worries resurface; Tesla slides

The Nasdaq Composite dipped Monday as a spike in oil prices added another threat to an economy already struggling with Federal Reserve rate hikes and recent turmoil in the banking sector.

The Nasdaq Composite slid 0.8%, while the S&P 500 hovered around the flatline after a lower open. The Dow Jones Industrial Average bucked the trend, rising 239 points, or 0.7%. Chevron shares led the Dow higher, rising 3.9%.

The output cut from OPEC+, which is slashing 1.16 million barrels per day, sent oil prices soaring. West Texas Intermediate crude was 6.6% higher, while international benchmark Brent crude climbed 6%.

Traders are shedding optimism from recent market strength with the prospect of higher oil prices adding to fears of higher inflation and a looming recession.

The Energy Select Sector SPDR fund (XLE), which tracks the S&P 500 energy sector, popped more than 4%. Marathon Oil and Halliburton were the fund’s best performers, rising 9% and 6.2%, respectively.

The prospect of higher oil prices could add further unease to Wall Street as the output cut plays out, according to Morningstar energy strategist Stephen Ellis.

“The actual cut itself was less of a surprise, given the large increase in global inventories and recession concerns, likely increased by the recent banking struggles,” Ellis said. “Higher oil prices are likely to provide a modest boost to inflation, providing more of a dampening effect on the economy.”

All three major averages were positive in the first quarter, despite turmoil in the banking sector highlighted by the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank in March. The Nasdaq Composite led the way in the quarter with a gain of 16.8% while the S&P 500 rose 7% in the first three months of the year for its second-straight positive quarter. The Dow industrials lagged but still managed to grind out an advance of 0.4%.

Still, the recent rally may be short lived given stronger macroeconomic factors, according to OANDA senior market analyst Ed Moya.

“This current macro backdrop isn’t conducive for a meaningful stock market rally: The economy is recession bound as the consumer is clearly weakening, lending is about to get ugly, energy cost uncertainty will remain elevated for a while, and monetary policy is finally restrictive and about to break parts of the economy,” Moya said.

The first week of the new quarter is a shortened one for Wall Street, as trading will be closed for Good Friday. However, there will be several key pieces of economic data for investors, including job openings data on Tuesday, ADP private payrolls report on Wednesday and the closely watched monthly jobs report on Friday.

In currencies, the dollar index fell 0.438%, with the euro up 0.54% to $1.0902. The Japanese yen strengthened 0.20% versus the greenback at 132.55 per dollar, while Sterling was last trading at $1.2372, up 0.5% on the day.

In U.S. Treasuries, benchmark 10-year notes were down 0.4

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basis points to 3.562%, from 3.566% late on Wednesday. The 30year bond was last down 1.7 basis points to yield 3.7613%. The two-year note was last was up 3.7 basis points to yield 4.1174%.

In commodities, U.S. crude recently rose 1.8% to $74.28 per barrel and Brent was at $79.20, up 1.18% on the day. Spot gold added 0.7% to $1,978.49 an ounce. U.S. gold futures gained 0.64% to $1,979.40 an ounce.

In crypto currencies, Bitcoin last fell 0.91% to $28,094.00. US consumer spending rose moderately in February, and

while inflation cooled, it remained elevated enough to possibly allow the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates one more time this year.

Additional data showed US consumer sentiment fell for the first time in four months in February on concerns of an impending recession, although the impact of the recent banking crisis was muted, reported Reuters. Expectations for a 25 basis point rate hike at its May meeting dipped to about 50%, with no hike seen to be just as likely.

However, Boston Federal Reserve President Susan Collins said the inflation data doesn’t alter the Fed’s monetary policy path yet, while New York Fed President John Williams said financial conditions will be a key contributor to his thinking about what’s next for central bank interest rate policy.

Looming counteroffensive will test Ukrainian army’s resolve

By ANDREW E. KRAMER

In vicious but mostly static fighting in snowy, artillery-cratered fields and ruined cities, Ukraine rebuffed a Russian offensive over the winter. Now, it is Ukraine’s turn to go on the attack.

Signs are everywhere that it is coming in the next month or so.

New Western weapons that could prove critical in assaults, like German Leopard 2 tanks and U.S. mine-clearing vehicles, are arriving in Ukraine. Thousands of recruits are training in newly constituted units tailored for offensives. And the military command is holding back elite soldiers from the worst of the fighting in the east, in and around the city of Bakhmut, to throw them instead into the coming campaign.

After more than a year of war, Ukraine is battle hardened. “We are covered in three centimeters of stone,” one fighter, Lt. Ilya Samoilenko, said in a recent interview.

But that toughness has come at a steep cost. Ukraine has lost thousands of its most experienced fighters. Now Samoilenko, a veteran commander and survivor of the siege of the city of Mariupol, is using his experience to train new recruits.

The new Ukrainian campaign, when it comes, will be a test of its army’s ability to re-arm and reconstitute battalions while maintaining the motivation and maneuvering skills that gave it an edge in three previous counteroffensives.

The timing is critical. Success for Ukraine in the battles on the southeastern plains would drive home to the world the declining military might of Russia, ease concerns that the war has settled into a quagmire and most likely encourage Ukraine’s allies to further arm and finance Kyiv in the war.

Western support has been solid so far but is not guaranteed. The U.S. budget for military assistance, for example, is now expected to run out by around September, and a senior American defense official recently described the latest tranche of artillery rounds and rockets sent to Ukraine as a “last-ditch effort.”

“The key point in the eyes of Washington elites — and Washington elites are the judge and jury on this — is that Ukraine has to be seen as having gained significant land in the coming offensive,” Cliff Kupchan, chairman of the Eurasia Group, a political risk assessment firm in Washington, said in

an interview.

The challenges are daunting.

Ukrainian officers will have to choreograph artillery, infantry and armored vehicle assaults that crash through Russian trenches, tank traps and minefields. In the south, Russian units have been building defensive positions since they were pushed out of the Kherson region in November. Sophisticated Western tanks, with better survivability and firepower, will be critical in uprooting those positions.

Ukraine had a standing army of about 260,000 soldiers before Russia invaded last year, and it quickly swelled to about 1 million people bearing arms in various branches of the security services and military. Over the past year, about 100,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed or wounded, according to Western estimates. Ukraine has not revealed how large a force it will commit to the counteroffensive.

Ukraine is seen as planning to drive a wedge through Russian occupied territory along the southern coasts of the Black and Azov Seas, near Crimea, or to seek a humiliating turnabout in the fighting in the eastern Donbas region — or both.

If weapons and trained troops fall into place in time, Ukraine is capable of inflicting losses on the Russian army that could have far-reaching geopolitical consequences, Evelyn Farkas, the director of the McCain Institute, said in a telephone interview.

She posited a once-unthinkable outcome: that Ukraine could render Russia a

weakened military power in Eastern Europe with little leverage in negotiations to end the war.

“People lack imagination,” Farkas said. “They only envision what they see now.”

But much could change, she said, with the influx to the front lines of the new Western weaponry and the tens of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers who have been training for the operation at home and in Europe.

Still, success is hardly assured. Allies have dragged their feet in sending weaponry, and soldiers have had to make do with crash courses in assault tactics.

“It’s a lot to learn in a short time,” said Rob Lee, a military analyst at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. And, he noted, “they will have to go before they get all the equipment.”

The weaponry and equipment for breaching trench lines and crossing minefields is falling into place, though it remains unclear if in sufficient quantity.

The Ukrainian military has posted photographs on Twitter of Stryker and Cougar armored personnel carriers from the United States, Marder armored vehicles from Germany and Challenger tanks from Britain. Last week, Ukrainian crews for Patriot air defense missiles wrapped up training in the United States, the Pentagon said.

Preparing for the counteroffensive has come at a cost.

Russia has used convicts and mercenaries to wear down the enemy in the monthslong fight at Bakhmut, stretching Ukraine’s exhausted, battered soldiers to the

limit. Ukraine has tried to avoid taking the bait, deploying volunteer Territorial Defense units and delaying rotations.

The village of Oleksandro-Shultyne, on one of the flanks in the battle for Bakhmut, for example, is defended now by the Ukrainian Volunteer Army, a unit that blends civilian volunteers with enlisted soldiers.

The village is a tableau of ruins, mud and snow. For months, seemingly endless waves of Russian soldiers waged assaults and the local commander, who goes by the nickname Sokil, or Falcon, conceded that his soldiers had been killed and forced to give ground in the months while Ukraine was fighting defensively.

But he hardly seemed disheartened.

“They concentrated their forces here,” he said of the Russian army. “What does that mean? That we will attack somewhere else. And we have every possibility to do that now.”

In the counteroffensive, Ukraine is likely to launch intensive artillery bombardments along a narrow stretch of frontline, military analysts say, followed by demining teams and tank assaults.

Ukraine is widely expected to strike in the south, where the terrain ranges from wide-open farm fields, with only sparse tree lines for cover, to towns and villages. A thrust of about 50 miles over the steppe from the current front lines to the Russian-occupied city of Melitopol would split Russian-held territory into two zones, sever supply lines and put Ukrainian artillery within range of Russian bases on the Crimean Peninsula.

Preparing new recruits to replace dead, wounded and exhausted soldiers has been taking place for months. Tens of thousands of new recruits have undergone training in Europe and inside Ukraine, including in newly formed Offensive Guard units. About 35,000 Ukrainians have signed up for the assault units.

But morale, an area in which Ukrainian fighters held an edge for much of the war, is becoming more of a challenge. In a dozen or so recent interviews, soldiers at positions near Bakhmut or emerging from the crucible of street fighting for short breaks expressed dismay at the scale of violence and death.

“It’s never a calm sea,” Masik, a sergeant who was manning a position south of Bakhmut, said of his state of mind. “It goes up and down. I want to see my family, my kids.”

A crater in Druzhkivka, Ukraine, on Thursday, March 30, 2023, caused by shelling. With powerful Western weapons, newly formed assault units and even a reconstituted Azov battalion, Ukraine is poised for a critical spring counteroffensive.

In rare call with Lavrov, Blinken demands release of imprisoned American journalist

By EMMA BUBOLA

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said over the weekend that he had spoken with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, to demand the release of Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter imprisoned in Russia on what the United States and the newspaper called a bogus espionage charge.

In a rare call between the two men since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year, Blinken said on Twitter that he had spoken with Lavrov and expressed “grave concern over Russia’s unacceptable detention of a U.S. citizen journalist.” He said he also called for the release of another imprisoned American, Paul Whelan. Russia’s Foreign Ministry said Blinken had initiated the call. In a statement, the ministry repeated the Russia’s claim that Gershkovich had been caught “red-handed” committing “illegal activities” — an allegation the United States and The Wall Street Journal have vehemently denied.

Tensions between the United States and Russia have become increasingly strained since Russia began preparing for its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and American citizens working in Russia risk detention and becoming political pawns.

Brittney Griner, an American basketball star who was detained for almost 10 months by Russia last year, urged the U.S. government Sunday to use “every tool possible” to secure Gershkovich’s release.

“We must do everything in our power to bring him and

all Americans home,” Griner and her wife, Cherelle, wrote in a statement they posted on Instagram, in which they also thanked President Joe Biden for his efforts to secure the release of imprisoned U.S. citizens.

Russian authorities announced that Gershkovich had been arrested Thursday, saying he was “suspected of spying in the interests of the American government.” If convicted, Gershkovich would face up to 20 years in a Russian penal colony. (Acquittals in espionage cases in Russia are virtually unheard of.)

Griner, a WNBA star, was arrested at a Russian airport in February 2022 and given a nine-year sentence on drug charges after she said she accidentally transported vape cartridges containing a cannabis extract in her luggage. Her case became an international cause because she was seen as a hostage held by President Vladimir Putin’s government as Russia was subjected to international sanctions in response to its invasion of Ukraine a week after her arrest.

The Biden administration’s efforts to negotiate a prisoner swap stalled for months as Griner was sent to a penal colony outside Moscow. She was freed in December in exchange for Viktor Bout, a Russian arms dealer known as “the Merchant of Death” who was serving a 25-year weaponstrafficking sentence.

A prisoner swap also helped secure the release last year of former U.S. Marine Trevor Reed, who had been held for two years on what his family said were false charges of assaulting two Moscow police officers. Reed was released in April at the same time as Konstantin Yaroshenko, a Russian pilot who had been serving a lengthy drug-smuggling sentence in the United States.

However, Russian authorities have signaled that it is too early to discuss such a swap in Gershkovich’s case. Sergei Ryabkov, a deputy foreign minister, said Thursday that previous prisoner exchanges “took place for people who were already serving sentences.”

Other Americans remain in captivity in Russia, including Marc Fogel, a history teacher who was detained in 2021 for having a small quantity of medical marijuana, and Whelan.

Like Gershkovich, Whelan, a former Marine, was accused of espionage charges that the United States has described as manufactured. He was arrested in 2018 and sentenced to a 16-year prison term in 2020. A person briefed on the negotiations last year said the United States had sought to free Whelan, as well as Griner, in exchange for releasing Bout.

Griner and Whelan were the subject of the only other known call between Blinken and Lavrov since the war began, when the two diplomats discussed a possible swap last summer. (Blinken and Lavrov also had an unscheduled encounter on the sidelines of an international conference in New Delhi in March, their first face-to-face exchange since the invasion.)

Griner has previously encouraged “everyone that played a part in bringing me home to continue their efforts to bring all Americans home.”

“Every family deserves to be whole,” she wrote on Instagram.

Gobierno de Puerto Rico

DEPARTAMENTO DE RECURSOS NATURALES Y AMBIENTALES

AVISO AMBIENTAL

El peticionario, Hotel Las Colinas, cuya dirección postal es P.O. Box 335294, Ponce, P.R., 00733-5294, representado por el Sr. Johnny Pérez Rivera, Gerente, ha solicitado al Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales (DRNA) la renovación del Permiso de Operación UICRP-02-58-0010, para un sistema de inyección subterránea (SIS) Clase VC-1, bajo las disposiciones del Reglamento para el Control de la Inyección Subterránea (RCIS) y la Ley Federal de Agua Potable Segura, según enmendada 42 USC 300f et seq. (LFAPS).

El SIS consiste de un tanque séptico de 21 pies de largo por 12 pies de ancho y 13 pies de profundidad líquida con una capacidad total de 24,504 galones, conectado a un pozo filtrante de 60 pies de largo por 20.5 pies de ancho y este a su vez conectado a un sistema de cuatro (4) lechos de percolación de 100 pies de largo y 20 pies de ancho cada uno, proporcionando un área de absorción de 1,651 pies2 y 2,000 pies2 respectivamente.

En el SIS se inyectarán 8,220 galones por día de aguas sanitarias y está ubicado en Hotel Las Colinas, Inc., en la Carr. PR 505, Km. 2.2 del Barrio La Yuca en Ponce, Puerto Rico.

Luego de realizada la evaluación correspondiente de los documentos sometidos, el DRNA tiene la intención de renovar el Permiso de Operación, para la instalación antes mencionada en conformidad con los requisitos del RCIS y de la LFAPS.

Esta notificación se hace para informar que el DRNA ha preparado el borrador del permiso de forma tal que el público interesado pueda someter sus comentarios con relación al mismo. El permiso contiene las condiciones y prohibiciones necesarias para cumplir con los requisitos reglamentarios aplicables.

Copia de la solicitud de permiso que sometió el peticionario ante el DRNA, el borrador del permiso y otros documentos relevantes estarán a la disposición del público para ser examinados, a petición del interesado mediante el envío de un un correo electrónico a la siguiente dirección: inyeccionsubterranea@drna.pr.gov o visitando la ORG, localizada en la Carr. PR-3 Km. 136.0, Barrio Algarrobos en Guayama. Copia de dichos documentos pueden adquirirse en la ORG, entre las 8:00 a.m. y las 4:30 p.m. de lunes a viernes o escribiendo a la siguiente dirección: Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales, Oficina Regional de Guayama, 2000 Ave. Los Veteranos, Guayama, Puerto Rico 00784. Las partes interesadas o afectadas pueden enviar sus comentarios por escrito a la Sra. Vanessa Del Moral Rosario, Directora de la ORG, o solicitar una vista pública por escrito a la Secretaria del DRNA, a la dirección postal o correo electrónico antes indicado.

Los comentarios por escrito o la solicitud de vista pública deberán ser sometidos al DRNA no más tarde de treinta (30) días a partir de la fecha de publicación de este aviso. La fecha límite para someter comentarios puede ser extendida si se estima necesario o apropiado para el interés público. La solicitud para una vista pública deberá señalar la razón o las razones que en la opinión del solicitante ameritan la celebración de la misma. De realizarse una vista pública los interesados o afectados tendrán una oportunidad razonable para presentar evidencia o testimonio sobre si se emite o deniega el permiso, si la Secretaria determina que dicha vista es necesaria o apropiada.

En San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 12 de enero de 2023.

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Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter, was escorted by officers from a court in Moscow on Thursday.

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Finland’s prime minister toppled in tight election

By STEVEN ERLANGER and JOHANNA LEMOLA

Prime Minister Sanna Marin and her Social Democratic Party lost a tight election in Finland on Sunday to a center-right party that focused on economic concerns.

The National Coalition Party, led by Petteri Orpo, 53, captured the most votes in the parliamentary election, followed by the right-wing Finns Party and the Social Democrats. But no party is near a majority in the 200-seat body, and Orpo is going to have a complicated task pulling together a governing coalition.

With almost 100% of the vote counted late Sunday, Orpo’s party had 48 seats with 20.8% of the vote, just ahead of the populist Finns, led by Riikka Purra, with 46 seats and 20%.

Although Marin has been the closest Finland has to a political rock star, her center-left Social Democrats came in third, with 43 seats and 19.9% of the vote.

The agrarian-based Center Party, which has been shrinking, may be a crucial part of a new center-right coalition, winning 11.3% of the vote and 23 seats.

It was a narrow defeat for Marin, 37. Despite her popularity, the election turned on the

economy, and Orpo succeeded in arguing that Finland’s debt is too high and that public spending should be cut.

Orpo has a choice of trying to join with the Finns or with the Social Democrats, but he would still need the support of other, smaller parties to form a government. During the campaign, he was careful not to offend either of the major parties; Marin lambasted the Finns as racist.

Orpo is expected to have the first chance to form a new government and, presumably, become prime minister. But given the tightness of the race, forming a new coalition government is expected to take many weeks of negotiations among the parties, some of whom have ruled out being in a coalition with the Finns Party.

Marin has been a fresh face for a fresh generation, and made a major impact outside Finland, although she has been more controversial within it. She has gotten good marks for her performance as prime minister, especially on issues like the war in Ukraine and NATO membership, and has been more popular in the polls than her party has.

With Finland about to join NATO, however, the election turned mostly on economic issues: the size of the country’s debt, the futu-

re viability of its social welfare system and its policy toward migration. There, Marin and her Social Democrats garnered more criticism and proved vulnerable.

“Democracy has spoken,” Marin said after the results were in.

She said: “I believe that the Social Democrats’ message was heard, and that was a values-based message. It has been a great campaign, and this is a great day because we did well. My congratulations to the National Coalition Party and Finns Party.”

Government spending was a key campaign issue.

With the economy contracting and inflation high, Marin’s opponents accused her of borrowing too much and failing to rein in public spending. Marin, who became prime minister in 2019, refused to specify any cuts but instead emphasized economic growth, education, higher employment and higher taxes as better answers.

The Finns Party pushed an anti-elitist agenda, concentrating on restricting migration from outside the European Union, criticizing Finland’s contributions to the EU and urging a slower path toward carbon neutrality. But it has tried to soften its image under Purra, 45, who

took the party leadership in 2021, and it has used social media cleverly, increasing its popularity among young voters.

In general, as in recent elections in Italy and Sweden, the vote showed a shift to the right. Marin’s party and two others from her current five-party coalition, the Greens and the Left Alliance, had ruled out going into government with the Finns. The Center Party has ruled out joining any coalition resembling the current one.

Marin’s private life, including videos of her drinking and dancing with friends, gave her celebrity abroad but caused some controversy in socially conservative Finland. She even felt compelled to take a drug test to forestall criticism. But she remained unusually popular for a prime minister at the end of a parliamentary term, said Jenni Karimaki, a political scientist at the University of Helsinki.

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Trump’s indictment is about the crimes that helped elect him

By MICHELLE GOLDBERG

Even some people eager to see Donald Trump held accountable for his depthless corruption have been uneasy about his indictment in New York. “A charge like this — a porn star payoff seven years ago, somehow tied to the election, but not really — it doesn’t seem like the right way to go,” Van Jones, a former Obama official, said last week on CNN. Of the long list of Trump’s alleged violations, The Washington Post editorial board wrote, “the likely charges on which a grand jury in New York state voted to indict him are perhaps the least compelling.”

As I write this, we don’t know exactly what those charges are or the degree to which, as many have speculated, they rely on an untested legal theory. But it is a mistake to treat this indictment — which, according to The New York Times, includes more than two dozen counts — as tangential to Trump’s other misdeeds. Contrary to what Jones said, the conduct at issue in this case is directly tied to the 2016 election and the question of whether Trump cheated to win it.

Most of the legal trouble that Trump has faced since entering politics has stemmed from his willingness to skirt the law and, at times, betray the country in his drive to get and keep power. Robert Mueller’s special counsel investigation didn’t prove that he engaged in a criminal conspiracy,

but it did show that his campaign both “welcomed” and received Russian help in his first bid for president. Trump’s first impeachment, in 2019, was about his attempt to extort President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine into manufacturing dirt on Joe Biden, the rival he most feared.

Trump is under criminal investigation in Georgia and Washington, D.C., for his attempts to subvert the outcome in the 2020 race. Each time he failed to face consequences for breaching rules meant to safeguard America’s electoral system, he escalated his behavior, to the point of attempting a coup. Escaping conviction in his second impeachment, for trying to overthrow the democratic system he was sworn to protect, he now treats Jan. 6 as something heroic, honoring rioters at his most recent campaign rally.

Compared with these offenses, the hush money payments to Trump’s paramours might seem like a minor issue, but it’s part of a pattern of anti-democratic behavior. As The Wall Street Journal reported, in addition to hearing about the payoff to the porn film star Stormy Daniels, the grand jury in New York heard extensive questioning about the payoff to a Playboy model, Karen McDougal. Both women were going to tell their stories before the 2016 election. Unlawful means were used to silence them, which is why Michael Cohen, Trump’s former fixer, went to prison.

As Cohen told a judge while pleading guilty to campaign finance crimes, tax evasion and bank fraud in 2018, his payments to Daniels and McDougal were made “for the principal purpose of influencing the election.” David Pecker, the former CEO of American Media, onetime parent company of the National Enquirer, said in a non-prosecution agreement with the Southern District of New York that he’d paid $150,000 to McDougal to “suppress the model’s story so as to prevent it from influencing the election.”

It’s impossible to know what impact these stories would have had if the electorate had been allowed to hear them. Certainly, the “Access Hollywood” video, in which Trump boasted of sexual assault, demonstrated that plenty of conservative voters were willing to look past his licentiousness. I’d guess that a vast majority of Trump voters would have been similarly unmoved by news of his affairs. But given the freakishly thin margins that gave Trump his victory — about 80,000 votes in three states — the stories wouldn’t have had to change that many minds to alter the outcome.

After the anticlimactic end of the Mueller investigation, a taboo developed against questioning the legitimacy of the Trump presidency. After all, the reasoning went, even if he lost the popular vote, he’d won fair and square under the rules of our system, and there was nothing provably criminal in the way he and his campaign solicited Russian help. Besides, Republicans are masters of projection, and even as they’ve rejected the validity of

Biden’s election, they’ve relished hurling charges of election denialism at Democrats. At this point, there’s little political upside for Democrats in re-litigating the nightmarish 2016 contest. Nevertheless, it should matter whether Trump broke the law in the service of securing his minority victory. Especially given all the evidence that he continued to defy the law in order to hold on to it.

I devoutly hope that Trump will face consequences for trying to steal the 2020 election in Georgia and summoning a mob to stop his vice president from certifying his defeat. But in a way, it’s fitting that this indictment is first. Certainly, it would be a mistake for Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg to proceed if his case isn’t solid. But there’s some justice in the fact that before Trump can be tried for crimes committed to remain in the presidency, he’s set to be tried for crimes committed to put him there.

A sticker given to an early voter is displayed for a photograph in Madison, Wis., on March 22, 2023.

POR CYBERNEWS

WASHINGTON, D.C. – El lunes, los senadores de Florida Rick Scott y Marco Rubio, la comisionada residente Jenniffer González Colón, y los representantes de Florida Byron Donalds, Scott Franklin, Bill Posey, Anna Paulina Luna y Mario Díaz Balart enviaron una carta al presidente Joe Biden urgiendo apoyo al proyecto Hurricane Tax Relief Act y alentar a la aprobación de la medida

bicameral que proveería un alivio contributivo por pérdidas relacionadas con desastres a las familias en 51 condados de Florida y en Puerto Rico, que fueron impactadas por los huracanes Ian, Nicole y Fiona.

El Hurricane Tax Relief Act busca, en términos generales, que donde los huracanes Ian, Nicole y Fiona hayan sido declarados federalmente como un desastre, se puedan deducir más fácilmente de la contribución sobre ingresos federal las pérdidas por hecho fortuito asociadas al mismo. Este proyecto de ley modifica la deducción por pérdidas personales por hechos fortuitos en las áreas de desastre del huracán, eximiendo de los requisitos para que los contribuyentes afectados detallen las deducciones o demuestren pérdidas que excedan el 10% del ingreso bruto ajustado. El Congreso extendió previamente un alivio fiscal similar en los huracanes Irma, Wilma, Dorian y Michael, entre otros.

La carta completa dice así:

“3 de abril, de 2023

Estimado presidente Biden

La semana pasada se cumplieron seis meses desde que el huracán Ian tocó tierra en el suroeste de Florida, devastando a tantas comunidades, familias y negocios en todo el estado. Con la asistencia de la Agencia Federal para el Manejo de Emergencias (FEMA), la Administración de Pequeñas Empresas (SBA) e innumerables organizaciones, en coordinación con funcionarios estatales y locales, los floridanos han trabajado increíblemente duro para

recuperarse durante los últimos seis meses, pero hay mucho más trabajo por hacer.

A medida que las familias en Florida y Puerto Rico continúan trabajando para reconstruir por completo sus vidas, hogares y comunidades, el Congreso debe tomar la misma medida importante que tomó después de tormentas anteriores para brindar alivio fiscal a las familias en las áreas afectadas. Lo último de lo que deberían preocuparse las familias mientras se recuperan de tormentas devastadoras como las de Ian, Nicole y Fiona es un gran cobro de impuestos. A principios de este mes, presentamos el Hurricane Tax Relief Act, que brindaría alivio fiscal por pérdidas por desastres a familias en 51 condados de Florida y Puerto Rico afectados por los huracanes Ian, Nicole y Fiona al designarlos como desastres cuyos damnificados cualifican para alivio fiscal por pérdidas fortuitas por desastres. También modifica la deducción por pérdidas personales por hechos fortuitos en las áreas de desastre del huracán.

Los pasados Congresos y administraciones han respaldado dicha ayuda para los huracanes Irma, Wilma, Dorian y Michael, entre otros, de manera bipartidista con un apoyo abrumador, y ahora deben hacer lo mismo para los afectados por los huracanes Ian, Nicole y Fiona. Esto puede y debe hacerse lo antes posible y sin controversias, como se ha hecho muchas veces antes.

Le urgimos a que emita una declaración en apoyo de esta legislación. Este proyecto de ley crítico brindará alivio a las familias trabajadoras que se han

UPR Aguadilla educa sobre la diversidad con la presentación del libro Mirando Hacia Arriba

POR EL STAR STAFF

AGUADILLA – La Oficina de Servicios a Estudiantes con Impedimentos (OSEI) de la Universidad de Puerto Rico en Aguadilla (UPRAg) celebró el pasado martes la presentación del libro Mirando Hacia Arriba de la autora puertorriqueña Brenda Martínez, en el que comparte las experiencias y retos que ha enfrentado como persona con displasia ósea.

Brenda nació con la condición de displasia ósea (SED), nombre correcto para referirse a uno de los más de 400 tipos de enanismo que existen, según educó la autora en su presentación. A su vez, relató como enfrentó grandes retos, tales como: desinformación sobre el tema, prejuicios sociales contra las personas de talla baja, falta de ajustes en estructuras y edificios que le permitieran tener igualdad de condiciones, entre otros.

Ante estos retos, Brenda destacó el apoyo de su familia como indispensable para superarlos con éxito. “Aprendí que vivir encerrada no me haría crecer ni un centímetro más, por eso salgo al mundo y vivo a plenitud”, enfatizó la autora.

La comunidad universitaria disfrutó de esta presentación y obtuvo herramientas para elevar su autoestima y cómo convertir retos en oportunidades. La autora motivó a los presentes a enfrentar los retos mirando desde otra perspectiva como relata en su libro.

“No podemos hacer un alto cada vez que nos topemos con piedras en el camino, es necesario pasar por el lado de estas y continuar caminando hacia lo que deseamos”, inspiró Martínez.

En el cierre de la actividad hubo un panel abierto donde los invitados expresaron sus dudas y observaciones a la autora. Además, tuvieron la oportunidad de adquirir la firma de la autora en sus libros.

Jenniffer González, Rick Scott y delegación bicameral doblegan esfuerzos para promover medida de alivio contributivo a impactados por huracanes

Anxious times descend on New York. Enter the Boss.

By MICHAEL WILSON

“Idon’t wanna go home,” Bruce Springsteen told some 20,000 cheering fans Saturday night in Madison Square Garden. “New York, wanna go home?”

An age-old showman’s shtick, sure, recalling when James Brown feigned being dragged offstage by bandmates fearful for his health — a gag Springsteen himself, now 73, has toyed with over the years.

But on this night, in this city, during this week, the question perhaps carried greater weight. Home, for New Yorkers, is a complicated and unsettling place these days.

On Tuesday, 3 miles away downtown, a former president of the United States is expected to surrender and face charges in Manhattan Criminal Court, a scene without precedent. The arrival of Donald Trump in the heavily Democratic city he long called home promises to be met with fervent protests and counter-protests.

Marjorie Taylor Greene, a firebrand Republican representative from Georgia, has promised on Twitter to come to New York to protest the “WITCH HUNT” and urged her 667,000 followers to join her.

Trump himself has warned of “potential death and destruction” on Truth Social, his social media platform.

This specific drama has, for now, overshadowed the lingering fallout of the pandemic and other issues in New York City, with increased wariness of crime, the stubborn persistence of vacant office buildings, an influx of migrants transported from the southern border, and — well, you name it, any economic or social or cultural crisis, and we’ve got it, right here.

So, no, Bruce, we do not want to go home. Keep playing.

Like many in the house, Springsteen was at home Saturday, just across the river from his home in his native New Jersey after two months of barnstorming the country on his first U.S. tour with the E Street Band since 2016. With

all respect to those cities where he has recently performed, beginning in Tampa, Florida, and heading west, for New Yorkers, a Springsteen tour only really begins when it arrives at that legendary address on Seventh Avenue in Midtown.

“It’s a Garden party,” said Maggie McManus, 60, from Astoria, Queens, sitting in a nearby Irish bar with her sister, Rory Brown, 61, before the show, their latest in a series dating back to the 1980s when the Boss wore a bandanna on his head.

“When he’s in New York, that’s when the show explodes,” Brown said.

“Like seeing Pearl Jam in Seattle — he’s home,” her sister added.

Springsteen’s first outing in the Garden was not met fondly when he opened for the band Chicago in 1973, a perhaps odd pairing that did him no favors. But the critics were soon on board — “Mr. Springsteen has evolved into one of the most exciting young figures in rock music,” The New York Times declared in 1974 — and in 1978, his three-night return to the arena, behind the album “Darkness on the Edge of Town,” was a triumph.

Headlining the first August night of that run was “the most important night of my life,” he told Eyewitness News afterward. Then 28, he seemed to falter for words: “It was, like, real special. Crowd was great. Kids were, like, they were great, you know? It was good.”

He would return more than 40 times in the decades that followed, putting him shoulder-to-shoulder with most every musical act except Billy Joel, who still performs at the Garden frequently enough to have his mail forwarded there.

In 2001, after a global E Street Band tour, Springsteen released a concert album, “Live in New York City,” recorded at the Garden and a reminder of the city’s place in his creative thinking. That album contained the first recorded version of “American Skin (41 Shots),” about the 1999 fatal police shooting of Amadou Diallo in the Bronx as he reached for his wallet. The song di-

vided fans and infuriated members of the Police Department, who reportedly refused to provide Springsteen with an escort out of the city after he played it at a later show.

In the years since, Springsteen has taken on other weighty issues, most notably on his Sept. 11 album, “The Rising.” And he has in the past spoken critically about the man who is appearing in court this week, calling him “a threat to our democracy” during Trump’s term in office.

“Maybe he’ll be at the show tonight,” joked Mark Evan, 59, of Long Beach, New York, who had just scored a $300 ticket on Saturday.

Springsteen and Ticketmaster have taken heat for a new supply-and-demand method of pricing on this tour, sending the best seats well into the four-figure range, but as the concert dates neared, the prices seem to have cooled somewhat.

Continues on page 18

Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band perform at Madison Square Garden in New York, April 1, 2023.

From left; the guitarist Nils Lofgren, the drummer Max Weinberg, Bruce Springsteen and Steven Van Zandt perform at Madison Square Garden in New York, April 1, 2023.

From page 17

The timing of the concert Saturday, scheduled months ago, was purely accidental. But would Springsteen be able to resist the temptation to mention the former president’s legal troubles?

“I prefer when performers stay out of politics,” said Bridget Boccini, 53, of Poughkeepsie, New York, sipping a drink with her husband, Manny, 61, on the way to their first Springsteen show since the George W. Bush administration — a gift from their children.

She would have been pleased, then, that Springsteen never mentioned Trump onstage Saturday. He appeared to have more personal matters front of mind, running through a set that threaded his earliest material — “Kitty’s Back,” “The E Street Shuffle” and “Rosalita (Come Out Tonight),” all 50-year-old songs — to his latest rock album, “Letter to You” from 2020.

He introduced one new song with a story about joining his first band, the Castiles, as a teenager, and 50 years later, standing at the deathbed of the bandmate who had invited him in, George Theiss.

“Rock of ages, lift me somehow,” he sang. “Somewhere high and hard and loud, somewhere deep into the heart of the crowd — I’m the last man standing now.”

Springsteen shows are the stuff of myth, and it is widely held that to attend one is to leave behind your

troubles and differences for three hours or more, to celebrate with a shared community of fans from all points on the political spectrum.

But even the most committed fans in the house on Saturday — from Shug Hannaway of Scotland, a Garden first-timer at his “bucket list gig,” to Paul McCartney, seen in the stands beside his wife, Nancy — could hardly pretend, for long, that everything was going to be fine.

A somber Springsteen, speaking of the clarity that a dear friend’s death brings, could have been directly addressing this moment in New York.

“Be good to yourselves,” he said. “Be good to those you love, and be good to this world around you.”

The show ended, and everyone in the Garden spilled out into a Saturday night city bracing for the week to come, and headed, whether across town or across the globe, toward home.

Bruce Springsteen performs at Madison Square Garden in New York, April 1, 2023. There’s tension in the city as New Yorkers wait for Donald Trump to appear, but in the meantime, Bruce kept playing at The Garden.

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Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: LA PARTE DEMANDADA, AL (A

LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Y AL PÚBLICO

GENERAL:

Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Rio Grande, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Rio Grande en Fajardo, el 7 DE JUNIO DE 2023, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar número tres (3) del bloque X de la Urbanización Villas de Rio Grande, en el Barrio Pueblo del Municipio de Rio Grande,

con una cabida de trescientos cuatro punto setenta y cinco (304.75) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, con el solar número cinco (5), en una distancia de veintitrés punto cero cero (23.00) metros, por el Sur, con el solar número uno (1), en una distancia de veintitrés punto cero cero (23.00) metros; por el Este, con la calle numero dieciséis (16), en una distancia de trece punto veinticinco (13.25) metros; y por el Oeste, con el solar número cuatro (4), en una distancia de trece punto veinticinco (13.25) metros. Enclava una casa. Finca número 4,643, inscrita al folio 61 del tomo 88 de Rio Grande, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección III. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al folio 2900 del tomo 560 de Rio Grande, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección III, inscripción 7ª. Propiedad localizada en: URB. VILLAS DE RIO GRANDE, X-3 CALLE 16, RIO GRANDE, PR 00745. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $168,000.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 1 de junio de 2096. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $112,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Rio Grande en Fajardo, el 14 DE JUNIO DE 2023, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $74,666.67, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TER-

CERA SUBASTA, la suma de $56,000.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Rio Grande en Fajardo, el 22 DE JUNIO DE 2023, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $85,655.53 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $11,642.50 en intereses acumulados al 1 de marzo de 2022 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 3.18% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $4,015.33 en seguro hipotecario; $5,600.00 en tarifas de servicios; $2,103.15 de seguro; $400.00 de tasaciones; $500.00 de inspecciones; $615.00 de adelantos pendientes; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $11,200.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado, esta última habrá de devengar intereses al máximo del tipo legal fijado por la oficina del Comisionado de Instituciones Financieras aplicable a esta fecha, desde este mismo día hasta su total y completo saldo. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Rio Grande en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hoy 20 de enero de 2023.

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Civil Núm.: RG2022CV00167. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

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Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Fajardo, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Fajardo, el 7 DE JULIO DE 2023, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en la URBANIZACIÓN RIO GRANDE ESTATES, situada en el Barrio Zarzal del término municipal de Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, identificado con el número, bloque, área y

colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: NUMERO DEL SOLAR: SEIS (6) DEL BLOQUE CUATRO GUION Q (4-Q). AREA DEL SOLAR: CUATROCIENTOS SEIS PUNTO CERO CERO (406.00) METROS CUADRADOS. EN LINDES por el NORTE, con faja de área verde, en una distancia de catorce punto cero cero (14.00) metros; por el SUR, con la Calle número Quinientos Doce (512), en una distancia de catorce punto cero cero (14.00) metros; por el ESTE, con eI Solar número Siete (7) del mismo bloque, en una distancia de veintinueve punto cero cero (29.00) metros; y por el OESTE, con los Solares número Tres(3) y número Cinco (5) del mismo Bloque, en una distancia de veintinueve punto cero cero (29.00) metros. Enclava una casa. Finca número 23,304, inscrita al folio 126 del tomo 389 de Rio Grande, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección III. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al folio 3,045 del tomo 560 de Rio Grande, Finca 23,304, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección III, inscripción 3ª. Propiedad localizada en: URB. RIO GRANDE ESTATES, 11924 CALLE REINA CATALINA, RIO GRANDE, PUERTO RICO 00745. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A.

Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $240,000.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 15 de julio de 2095. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $160,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Fajardo, el 14 DE JULIO DE 2023, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA,

y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $106,666.67, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $80,000.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Fajardo, el 21 DE JULIO DE 2023, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $124,326.14 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $15,884.85 en intereses acumulados al 31 de agosto de 2022 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 3.92% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $5,994.96 en seguro hipotecario; $5,845.00 en tarifas de servicio; $638.81 en seguro; $375.00 de tasaciones; $240.00 de inspecciones; $20.00 de adelantos pendientes; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $16,000.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado esta última habrá de devengar intereses al máximo del tipo legal fijado por la oficina del Comisionado de Instituciones Financieras aplicable a esta fecha, desde este mismo día hasta su total y completo saldo. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hoy 7 de febrero de 2023.

JORGE A. ORTIZ ESTRADA, ALGUACIL REGIONAL #622. SANDRALIZ MARTÍNEZ TORRES, ALGUA-

CIL PLACA #737.

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Demandante V.

ORLANDO MORALES TOLEDO

Demandado

Civil Núm.: TJ2019CV00411. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO

Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA

POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, GRETCHEN M. JEREZ SEDA, Alguacil Supervisor de la División de Subastas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Carolina, a los demandados y al público en general les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento que se ha librado en el presente caso por el Secretario del Tribunal de epígrafe con fecha 25 de enero de 2023 y para satisfacer la cantidad adeudada de $63,814.90 de principal mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de autos el 22 de diciembre de 2022, notificada y archivada en autos el de 22 de diciembre de 2022, procederé a vender en pública subasta, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, mediante efectivo, giro o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil de este Tribunal todo derecho, título e interés que hayan tenido tengan o puedan tener los deudores demandados en cuanto a la propiedad localizada en el Municipio de Carolina, Puerto Rico, el bien inmueble se describe a continuación: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento número A-2-1, localizado en la primera planta del edificio número 1 del Condominio Villas del Sol, del complejo residencial del mismo nombre situado en el barrio Las Cuevas del municipio de Trujillo Alto. Tiene forma rectangular, midiendo 6.53 metros de ancho por 11.46 metros de fondo y con una cabida de 74.83 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a 804.91 pies cuadrados. Su puerta principal queda al Norte, que es su frente y se comunica a través de un balcón con la salida del edificio.

Este apartamento encierra una sala-comedor, tres dormitorios, con s us respectivos closets, cocina, baño, lavandería y balcón al frente. En linderos NORTE, con el patio delantero del edificio que da al área de estacionamiento; por el SUR, con el patio posterior del edificio; por el ESTE, con par ed comunal y medianera que lo separa y comparte con el apartamento A-1-1 y por el OESTE, con pared comunal y medianera que

lo separa y comparte con el apartamento número A-3-1. Le corresponde el estacionamiento marcado número 3 el cual forma parte del inmueble y una participación en los elementos comunes de 12.50%. Finca 18915 inscrita al folio 17 del tomo 317 de Trujillo Alto, Registro de Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Cuarta. Con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer a la parte demandante las cantidades adeudadas, en el caso de epígrafe, que se desglosan de la siguiente forma: $60,861.54, de balance principal y un balance diferido de $2,953.36 para un total de $63,814.90, más intereses al 6.00% desde el 15 de agosto de 2018, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; recargos a razón de 5% de cada pago vencido no recibido dentro de los quince (15) días después de la fecha de vencimiento y 20% del principal del pagaré, equivalentes a $14,580.00 para cubrir costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. El tipo mínimo para la subasta será la suma de tasación pactada, la cual es $72,900.00 según la escritura de hipoteca para la propiedad descrita. De declararse la subasta desierta, se procederá a una segunda subasta y servirá de tipo mínimo la cantidad de 2/3 del precio mínimo antes mencionado: $48,600.00. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en esta segunda subasta, se procederá a una tercera subasta, en la cual regirá como tipo mínimo para esta, la mitad (1/2) del precio mínimo antes mencionado: $36,450.00. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el 22 DE MAYO DE 2023 A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a efecto una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el 30 DE MAYO DE 2023 A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a cabo una TERCERA SUBASTA el 6 DE JUNIO DE 2023 A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA. LA SUBASTA O subastas antes indicadas se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Carolina. De Estudio de Título realizado no surgen gravámenes preferentes y/o posteriores. Se advierte a los licitadores que la adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica y para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para co-

Demandante V. PABLO SERRANO FEBRES, TRINIDAD REYES ENCARNACION Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS, CUSTOM MORTGAGE CORP., JOHN DOE

Demandado(a)

Civil: CA2022CV03715. Sala: 407. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO POR LA VÍA JUDICIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: PABLO SERRANO FEBRES, TRINIDAD REYES ENCARNACION Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES

COMPUESTA POR AMBOS, CUSTOM MORTGAGE CORP.

COMO TENEDORES

DESCONOCIDOS DEL PARGAR A FAVOR DE CUSTOM MORTGAGE CORP.

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 24 de marzo de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 28 de marzo de 2023. En CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, el 28 de marzo de 2023. MARILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. RUTH M. COLÓN LUCIANO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandante V. OSCAR A

ORTIZ FONSECA

Demandado(a)

Civil: TB2021CV00618. Sala: 506. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: OSCAR A ORTIZ FONSECA, URB LEVITTOWN LAKES, AX9

CALLE LEONOR E, TOA BAJA, PR 00949.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 28 de febrero de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 28 de marzo de 2023. En BAYAMON, Puerto Rico, el 28 de marzo de 2023. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MARILYN COLÓN CARRASQUILLO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandante V. JOSÉ ANTONIO RODRÍGUEZ RAMOS

Demandado

Civil Núm.: IS2023CV00028.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: JOSÉ ANTONIO

RODRÍGUEZ RAMOS. 179

CALLE FARO, ALTURAS DEL MAR, ISABELA, PUERTO RICO 00662.

De: BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO.

Se le emplaza y requiere que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su ale-

gación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramaiudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Este caso trata sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Garantías en que la parte demandante solicita que se condene a la parte demandada a pagar: la suma principal de $125,736.46, más cargos por demora y otros cargos, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más los intereses acumulados al 3.25% desde el 1 de febrero de 2022, hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la suma de 10% del principal, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado hipotecariamente asegurados. Se le apercibe que, si dejare de hacerlo, se dictará contra usted sentencia en rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle.

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EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y Sello del Tribunal, hoy 29 de marzo de 2023. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ARLENE GUZMÁN PABÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandante V. LUIS ABEL HERNÁNDEZ

MARTÍNEZ, PENÉLOPE PEÑA JIMÉNEZ, AMBOS POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES DOMPUESTA POR

AMBOS

Demandado(a)

Civil: BY2022CV05218. Sala:

501. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: LUIS ABEL HERNANDEZ MARTINEZ Y PENELOPE PEÑA JIMENEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 24 de marzo de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 27 de marzo de 2023. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 27 de marzo de 2023. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. NEREIDA QUILES SANTANA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandante V. JOSÉ CALDERÓN MORALES, SU ESPOSA ANA HILDA SANTANA SERRANO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandado(a)

Civil: CG2022CV01349. (802). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: JOSÉ CALDERÓN MORALES, SU ESPOSA ANA HILDA SANTANA SERRANO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 24 de marzo de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola

vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 30 de marzo de 2023. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 30 de marzo de 2023. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. DAMARIS RODRÍGUEZ GUZMÁN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandante V. CARLOS MARTIN BARCELO PADILLA, PERSIDA PADILLA GONZALEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR

AMBOS

Demandado(a)

Civil: PO2022CV02504. 406. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: CARLOS MARTIN BARCELO PADILLA Y PERSIDA PADILLA GONZALEZ LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR

AMBOS. P/C LCDA. MARJALIISA COLON VILLANUEVA. PO BOX 7970, PONCE, P.R. 00732-7970.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 23 de marzo de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia

Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 28 de marzo de 2023. Ponce, Puerto Rico, el 28 de marzo de 2023. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. MARIELY FÉLIX RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ASSET TRUST 2019-PR1

Demandante V. DORAL BANK AHORA BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS

Demandado(a)

Civl: BY2022CV05687. Sala: 503. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: JOHN DOE Y RJCHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 17 de marzo de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 29 de marzo de 2023. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 29 de marzo de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. IVETTE M. MARRERO BRACERO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandante V.

BENJAMÍN GARCÍA DE VILLALOBOS CACHO Y LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

Demandados

Civil Núm.: ECD2017-0343. (704). Sala: 704. Sobre: ‘’IN REM’’ - EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de Caguas, Caguas, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 17 de marzo de 2023, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: URBANA: Parcela de terreno identificado como solar número 54 del bloque SJ de la Urbanización Sanjuanera, radicada en el Barrio Cañabón del término municipal de Caguas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de 480.380 metros cuadrados. En lindes: por el NORTE, en 17.00 metros, con Plaza Madrigal (calle número #2); por el SUR, en 17.00 metros, con Finca Jiménez; por el ESTE, en 28.17 metros, con solar número #55; y por el OESTE, en 28.35 metros, con solar número #53. En dicho solar enclava una casa de concreto diseñada para una familia. Inscrito al folio 45 del tomo 1,659 de Caguas, finca número #55,303 Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Primera de Caguas. La propiedad ubica, según pagaré, en: Solar 54 Bloque SJ, SanJuanera Dev., Hacienda San José, Caguas, PR. Además, el Alguacil que suscribe, hago saber a todos los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surjan de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses,

costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante:

EMBARGO FEDERAL: Contra Benjamín García De Villalobos, seguro social XXX-XX-3136, por la suma de $48,992.84, notificación número USAO2015A28832 (así surge), presentado el día 18 de marzo de 2015, anotado al folio 134, Asiento 1, del libro de Embargos Federales número #8). El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada el 10 de julio de 2017, notificada el 7 de agosto de 2017, y publicada en periódico de circulación general, The San Juan Daily Star, el 15 de agosto de 2017, en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $323,374.22 por concepto de principal; $1,137.73 por concepto de intereses acumulados; $1,728.83 por concepto de cargos por demora; los cuales, al igual que los intereses, continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda reclamada en este pleito, y la suma de $34,500.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente (“Sentencia”). La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 25 DE ABRIL DE 2023

A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en la Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas del Centro Judicial de Caguas, Caguas, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $345,000.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 2 DE MAYO DE 2023

A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en la Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas del Centro Judicial de Caguas, Caguas, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $230,000.00, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 9 DE MAYO DE 2023 A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en la Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas del Centro Judicial de Caguas, Caguas, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $172,500.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que

el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 29 de marzo de 2023. EDGARDO ALDEBOL MIRANDA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, ALGUACIL DE LA DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA MUNICIPAL DE SAN LORENZO ANDENO CO

Demandante V. VANESSA

MONTANEZ TORRES

Demandado

Civil Núm.: SL2022CV00279.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO

- REGLA 60. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS

UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: VANESSA

MONTANEZ TORRES.

HC 50 BOX 40566, SAN

LORENZO, PR 00754. Se le notifica que la parte demandante ha presentado ante este tribunal, demanda contra usted, solicitando la concesión del siguiente remedio: Cobro de Dinero - Regla 60. Representa a la parte demandante, el abogado cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato:

Brito.Legal 1607 Ave. Ponce de León St. GM6 #232 San Juan, PR 00969 Tel. 787-705-1011

E-mail: adrian@brito.legal

POR LA PRESENTE, se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento.

Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https ://www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php./ tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

En San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico a 24 de marzo de 2023. LISILDA

MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. KATHERINE CARRASQUILLO HERNÁNDEZ, SUBSECRETARIA.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU-

NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA MUNICIPAL DE SAN JUAN

ANDENO CO

Demandante V. AVELINO

GARCÍA ESCALERA

Demandado

Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV01131.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO

- REGLA 60. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL

PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: AVELINO GARCÍA ESCALERA. PO BOX 193828, SAN JUAN, PR 00919.

Se le notifica que la parte demandante ha presentado ante

este tribunal, demanda contra usted, solicitando la concesión del siguiente remedio: Cobro de Dinero - Regla 60. Representa a la parte demandante, el abogado cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato:

Brito.Legal

1607 Ave. Ponce de León

St. GM6 #232

San Juan, PR 00969

Tel. 787-705-1011

E-mail: adrian@brito.legal

POR LA PRESENTE, se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php./ tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

En San Juan, Puerto Rico a 28 de marzo de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. IRIS OLIVO NÚÑEZ, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA MUNICIPAL DE YAUCO ANDENO CO

Demandante V.

HECTOR

BURGOS RIVERA

Demandado Civil Núm.: YU2022CV00531.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - REGLA 60. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: HECTOR

BURGOS RIVERA.

HC 2 BOX 364, YAUCO, PR 00698. Se le notifica que la parte demandante ha presentado ante este tribunal, demanda contra usted, solicitando la concesión del siguiente remedio: Cobro de Dinero - Regla 60. Representa a la parte demandante, el abogado cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato:

Brito.Legal

1607 Ave. Ponce de León

St. GM6 #232

San Juan, PR 00969

Tel. 787-705-1011

E-mail: adrian@brito.legal

POR LA PRESENTE, se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:/ / www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php./tribunal-ectronico/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. En Yauco, Puerto Rico a 28 de marzo de 2023. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. DAISY QUIÑONES VÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS FIRSTBANK

PUERTO RICO

Demandante Vs FELICITA RAMIREZ TORRES, SUCESION DE JULIAN SERRANO CLAUDIO, COMPUESTA POR CARLOS SERRANO RAMIREZ Y JULIAN XAVIER SERRANO RAMIREZ, JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS, ADMINISTRACION PARA EL SUSTENTO DE MENORES. CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES Demandado(a)

Civil Núm.: CG2022CV02519.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA Y COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: FELICITA RAMIREZ TORRES, CARLOS SERRANO RAMIREZ Y JULIAN XAVIER SERRANO RAMIREZ, JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE JULIAN SERRANO CLAUDIO.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se les notifica la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus-

cribe le notifica a usted que el 16 de marzo de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 29 de marzo de 2023. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 29 de marzo de 2023. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. VIONNETTE ESPINOSA CASTILLO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN TRUST

MORTGAGE CORP.

Demandante V. FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION COMO SUCESOR EN CANCELACION DE PAGARE; DERECHOS DE DORAL BANK; JOHN DOE Y HIPOTECARIO EXTRAVIADO RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES CON INTERES

Demandado(a)

Civil: BY2022CV04902. Sala 505. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ HIPOTECARIO EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE (PERSONAS DESCONOCIDAS CON POSIBLE INTERES).

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 28 de marzo de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de

circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 30 de marzo de 2023. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 30 de marzo de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MILITZA MERCADO RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA

TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO MMG I PR CDGY, LLC

Demandante V. FELIX JUAN ESCOBAR

RODRIGUEZ, SU ESPOSA

CLAUDIA MICHELLE

RABAZA VAZQUEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR

AMBOS

Demandado(a)

Civil: FA2022CV01178. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: FELIX JUAN ESCOBAR

RODRIGUEZ POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON CLAUDIA MICHELLE

RABAZA VÁZQUEZ; CLAUDIA MICHELLE

RABAZA VAZQUEZ POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON FELIX JUAN ESCOBAR RODRÍGUEZ; DIRECCIÓN: URB. RIO

GRANDE ESTATES, 1173 CALLE REINA FABIOLA, RIO GRANDE PR 00745; 24 ARLINGTON STREET APT 2, FITCHBURY, MA 01420; CONO. LOMAS DE RIO GRANDE, APT 901, RIO GRANDE PR 00745; URB. VILLA ARRIBA HEIGHTS, BH-23 CALLE 110, CAROLINA PR 00983; 44 RIDGE RD, ATHOL MA

01331; URB ALTURAS DE RIO GRANDE, B-75 CALLE 1, RIO GRANDE PR 00745.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 29 de marzo de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 30 de marzo de 2023. En Fajardo, Puerto Rico, el 30 de marzo de 2023. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. IVELISSE SERRANO GARCÍA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA

SAN CALOS

MORTGAGE LLC

Demandante V. AFFORDABLE

PROPERTY GROUP LLC

Demandado(a)

Civil: CA2022CV03974. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: SUCN DE JOSE

MANUEL LOPEZ

SOMOLINOS COMPUESTA POR NELSON PEREZ RAMOS. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 29 de MARZO de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando

usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 30 de marzo de 2023. En CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, el 30 de marzo de 2023. MARILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. DENISSE TORRES RUIZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOC.IADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN REVERSE MORTGAGE SOLUTIONS, INC. Demandante V. LA SUCESIÓN DE AIDA OQUENDO BARBOSA, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA COMO AIDA OQUENDO BARBOSA Y COMO AIDA LUZ OQUENDO BARBOSA COMPUESTA POR GAMALIER ALVAREZ OQUENDO, ANA RUTH ALVAREZ OQUENDO, EDWIN ALVAREZ OQUENDO, FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON INTERÉS EN LA SUCESIÓN; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA Demandados Civil Núm.: DO2022CV00152. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. S. S. A: ANA RUTH ALVAREZ OQUENDO, COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE AIDA OQUENDO BARBOSA, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA COMO AIDA OQUENDO BARBOSA Y COMO AIDA LUZ OQUENDO BARBOSA. Queden emplazados y notificados que en este Tribunal se ha radicado Demanda sobre Ejecución de Hipoteca en su contra. Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto y deberá presentar su alega-

ción responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), el cual podrá acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar Sentencia en Rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro. si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su discreción, lo entiende procedente. Los abogados de la parte demandante son:

Lcdo. Andrés Sáez Marrero

T.S.P.R. Núm. 18074

TROMBERG, MORRIS & POULIN, LLC

1515 South Federal Highway, Suite 100 Boca Raton, FL 33432 Tel. 877-338-4101 / Fax: 561-338-4077 prservice@tmppllc.com / asaez@tmppllc.com

Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, hoy 15 de diciembre de 2022. LCDA.

LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL.

MIRCIENID GONZÁLEZ TORRES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU-

NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE CARO-

LINA

GITSIT SOLUTIONS, LLC

Demandante V.

SUCESIÓN DE EUFEMIA

CIRINO ORTIZ T/C/C

EUFEMIA CIRINO, SUCESIÓN DE AGESIMO

OSORIO CALDERON

AMBAS COMPUESTAS

POR SUS HIJOS NYDIA

OSORIO CIRINO, FELIPE

OSORIO CIRINO, FREDDY

OSORIO CIRINO, ANA

MARIA OSORIO CIRINO, ROGELIO OSORIO

CIRINO, AMANDA

OSORIO CIRINO, MARIBEL OSORIO

CIRINO, JAIME OSORIO

CIRINO, HEÇTOR OSORIO

CIRINO, VIRGEN OSORIO

CIRINO; FULANO DE TALY FULANA DE TAL, COMO HEREDEROS

DESCONOCIDOS CON POSIBLE INTERÉS EN LA SUCESIÓN; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

Demandados

Civil Núm.: LO2023CV00004.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA - IN REM. EDICTO DE INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA,

PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S.

A: LA SUCESIÓN DE EUFEMIA CIRINO ORTIZ

T/C/C EUFEMIA CIRINO, SUCESIÓN DE AGESIMO

OSORIO CALDERON

AMBAS COMPUESTAS

POR SUS HIJOS NYDIA

OSORIO CIRINO, FELIPE

OSORIO CIRINO, FREDDY OSORIO CIRINO, ANA

MARIA OSORIO CIRINO, ROGELIO OSORIO CIRINO, AMANDA

OSORIO CIRINO, MARIBEL OSORIO CIRINO, JAIME OSORIO CIRINO, HECTOR OSORIO

CIRINO, VIRGEN OSORIO CIRINO; FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL, COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON POSIBLE INTERÉS EN LA SUCESIÓN.

El Artículo 1578 del Código Civil de 2020, dispone: “Transcurridos treinta (30) días desde que se haya producido la delación, cualquier persona interesada puede solicitar al tribunal que le señale al llamado un plazo, para que manifieste si acepta la herencia o si la repudia. Este plazo no excederá de treinta (30) días. El tribunal apercibirá al llamado de que, si transcurrido el plazo señalado no ha manifestado su voluntad de aceptar la herencia o de repudiarla, se dará por aceptada.” Por la presente el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, conforme al Art. 1578, supra, y el caso Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria vs. Latinoamericana de Exportación, Inc., 164 DPR 689 (2005), les ordena que el término de treinta (30) días, hagan declaración aceptado o repudiando la herencia de los causantes, EUFEMiA GIRINO

ORTIZ T/G/C EUFEMIA CIRINO y AGESIMO OSORIO CALDERON. Se les apercibe a los herederos antes mencionados que de no expresarse dentro de ese término de treinta (30) días en tomo a la aceptación o repudiación de herencia, la misma se tendrá por aceptada. Los abogados de la parte demandante son:

Lcdo. Andrés Sáez Marrero

T.S.P.R. Núm. 18074

TROMBERG, MORRIS & POULIN, LLC

1515 South Federal Highway, Suite 100

Boca Raton, FL 33432

Tel. 877-338-4101 /

Fax: 561-338-4077

prservice@tmppllc.com / asaez@tmppll.com

Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, hoy 29 de marzo de 2023. LCDA. MA-

RILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL.

LILLIAM ORTIZ NIEVES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC

Demandante Vs. SUCESION FREDERICK

HENRY BARREDA

MONGE COMPUESTA POR JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO

POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Demandados

Civil Núm.: CG2021CV02346.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: LA PARTE DEMANDADA, AL (A LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Y AL PÚBLICO

GENERAL:

Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, el 2 DE MAYO DE 2023, A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Predio de terreno radicado en el Barrio Borinquen de Caguas, Puerto Rico, con un área de tres punto cero treinta y seis cuerdas, equivalentes a ONCE MIL NOVECIENTOS TREINTA Y DOS

PUNTO SESENTA Y NUEVE METROS CUADRADOS

(11,932.69 M.C.). En lindes por el Norte, con el solar que le fuera segregado; por el Sur, con el solar que le fuera segregado; por el Este, con una faja de terreno destinada a uso público; y por el Oeste, con la parcela “E” del plano de inscripción. Enclava edificación para fines residenciales. Finca número 22,367 inscrita al folio móvil del tomo 1600, inscripción octava, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección I. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al folio

256 del tomo 1750, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección I, inscripción 9ª. Propiedad localizada en: PR 763 KM.

4.7 INT., BO. BORINQUEN, CAGUAS PR 00725. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $382,500.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 12 de mayo de 2088. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $382,500.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, el 9 DE MAYO DE 2023, A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $255,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $191,250.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, el 16 DE MAYO DE 2023, A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $220,819.14 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $36,257.95 en intereses acumulados al 1 de marzo de 2022 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 3.317% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $9,544.37 en seguro hipotecario; $5,355.00 en tarifas de servicio; $2,016.00 en seguro; $555.00 de tasaciones; $480.00 de inspecciones; $615.00 en adelantos pendientes; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $38,250.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado,

esta última habrá de devengar intereses al máximo del tipo legal fijado por la oficina del Comisionado de Instituciones Financieras aplicable a esta fecha, desde este mismo día hasta su total y completo saldo. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy 24 de marzo de 2023. Carlos Delgado Cruz, Alguacil Regional. Ángel Gómez Gómez, Alguacil Placa #593.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN RAQUEL

MARQUEZ DEL BOIS

Demandante V. YUNIOR

MERCADO ACOSTA

Demandado(a)

Civil: SJ2022RF01094. (701).

Sobre: DIVORCIO (RUPTURA IRREPARABLE). NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: YUNIOR

MERCADO ACOSTA. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 24 de marzo de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede es-

tablecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 24 de marzo de 2023. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 24 de marzo de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. ENID TORRES RUIZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC

Demandante Vs. SUCESION VICTOR

MANUEL GONZALEZ

RIVERA T/C/C VICTOR M

GONZALEZ RIVERA T/C/C

VICTOR M GONZALEZ

T/C/C VICTOR GONZALEZ COMPUESTA POR

FELIX JUAN GONZALEZ

FELIX; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO

POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES Demandados

Civil Núm.: BY2023CV01112.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO

POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO

POSIBLES MIEMBROS

DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION VICTOR

MANUEL GONZALEZ

RIVERA T/C/C VICTOR

M GONZALEZ RIVERA

T/C/C VICTOR M

GONZALEZ T/C/C VICTOR

GONZALEZ.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberé presentar su alegación responsiva en la

secretaria del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

Greenspoon Marder, LLP

Lcda. Frances L. Asencio-Guido R.U.A. 15,622

TRADE CENTRE SOUTH, SUITE 700 100 WEST CYPRESS CREEK ROAD FORT LAUDERDALE, FL 33309

Telephone: (954) 343 6273

Frances.Asencio@gmlaw.com

Expedido bajo mi firma, y sello del Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 23 de marzo de 2023. LCDA. LAURA

I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MILITZA MERCADO RIVERA, SUB-SECRETARIA.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE TRUJILLO ALTO ALBERTO RODRIGUEZ COTTO

Demandante V. MUNICIPIO AUTONOMO DE TRUJILLO ALTO; JUAN DEL PUEBLO Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO Y CUALESQUIER PERSONA DESCONOCIDA CON POSIBLE INTERÉS EN LA OBLIGACIÓN CUYA CANCELACIÓN POR DECRETO JUDICIAL SE SOLICITA

Demandados Civil Núm.: TJ2023CV00124.

Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: JUAN DEL PUEBLO Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES Y CUALESQUIER PERSONA DESCONOCIDA CON POSIBLE INTERÉS EN LA OBLIGACIÓN CUYA CANCELACIÓN POR DECRETO JUDICIAL SE SOLICITA.

Por la presente se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal una Demanda en su contra en el pleito de epígrafe. 1. En este caso la parte demandante ha radicado una Demanda para que se decrete judicialmente el saldo de un (1) pagaré hipotecario a favor de El Municipio de Trujillo Alto o a su orden, por la suma principal de $8,000.00, con intereses al 2% y vencedero en 30 años, constituido mediante la escritura numero 221 otorgada en

San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 30 de mayo de 1989, ante el notario Francisco Alonso Rivera, inscrito al folio 202 del tomo 433 de Trujillo Alto, inscripción 2nda, sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicada en la Urbanización “HACIENDAS DE CARRAIZO, Segunda Sección”, en el Barrio Carraízo del Municipio de TRUJILLO ALTO, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el Plano de Inscripción de la urbanización con el número, área y colindancias que se relacionan continuación: Número del solar: Dos del Bloque “J” (“J2”). Area del solar: Doscientos noventa y dos metros cuadrados con cincuenta centímetros (292.50 m.c.). En lindes: por el NORTE, con Haciendas de Carraízo, en una distancia de trece metros (13.00); por el SUR, con la calle número cuatro (4), en una distancia de trece metros (13.00); por el ESTE, con el solar número tres (3), en una distancia de veintidós metros con cincuenta centímetro (22.50); y por el OESTE, con el solar número uno (1), en una distancia de veintidós metro con cincuenta centímetros (22.50). En este solar se ha construido una casa de vivienda para una familia, de hormigón y concreto reforzado. Finca Número 23894 Inscrita al folio 201 del tomo 433 de TRUJILLO ALTO, Registro de la Propiedad de SAN JUAN IV. La parte demandante alega que dicho pagaré ha sido saldado según más detalladamente consta en la Demanda radicada que puede examinarse en la Secretaría de este Tribunal. Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectado por el remedio solicitado, se le emplaza por este edicto que se publicara una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de Puerto Rico. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Debe notificar con copia de ella a la abogada de la parte demandante la Lcda. Lizbet Aviles Vega, Urb. Los Sauces, Calle Pomarrosa #222, Humacao, PR 00791; Tel. (787) 3540061, dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, apercibiéndole que de no hacerlo así dentro del término indicado, el Tribunal podrá anotar su rebeldía y dictar sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico, hoy día 27 de marzo de 2023. LCDA. MARILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. KEILA GARCÍA, SUB-SECRETARIA.

Louisiana State takes the title with a commanding win

By KRIS RHIM

Louisiana State coach Kim Mulkey had been trying to temper expectations all season.

She had added nine new players. Who knew how they would jell? In her second year coaching at LSU, nobody should expect a national championship, she argued.

But there was Mulkey in Sunday’s national championship game, clad in a sequin pantsuit that looked like something between a disco ball and an exploded glitter bomb, leading the third-seeded Tigers to their first women’s basketball championship with a convincing victory, 102-85, over Iowa and its superstar sharpshooter, Caitlin Clark. The Tigers’ 102 points were the most in a Division I women’s title game. Iowa’s 85 was the most in a loss.

The Tigers, behind towering, smacktalking forward Angel Reese and a surprise shooting spark from Jasmine Carson, brought Clark and college basketball’s most exciting show to a screeching stop, ending one of the most electrifying individual runs in recent tournament history.

Clark, the consensus national player of the year, had caught the attention of the country with her NBA-range shooting, her crisp passing, and her visible emoting in celebration, frustration and competitive passion.

The Tigers celebrated at midcourt while freshman guard Flau’jae Johnson, who also raps, had one of her songs playing throughout the arena in Dallas. Johnson held the trophy and rapped her lyrics while waving her arms.

“Year Two, and hoisting this trophy is crazy,” Mulkey told the crowd. The NCAA championship is Mulkey’s fourth as a head coach, moving her to third on the career list. Mulkey also won a title as a player with Louisiana Tech in 1982 and one as an assistant coach at the school. Mulkey said she “lost” it with about 90 seconds remaining Sunday, bursting into tears.

“That’s really not like me until that final buzzer goes off, but I knew we were going to hold on to win this game,” Mulkey said through tears.

Reese was named the most outstanding player for the Final Four, finishing with 15 points, 10 rebounds, five assists and three steals. Carson scored a team-high 22 points, including 21 in the first half on 7-of-7 shooting.

“I had so many goals coming into LSU,” said Reese, who transferred from Maryland

before this season. “But I didn’t think I was going to win a national championship in my first year at LSU.”

As the game wound down, Reese used one of Clark’s taunts of choice against her, waving a hand in front of her own face, the same move popularized by professional wrestler John Cena. Reese also tapped her right ring finger while smiling at Clark, pointing out the spot for some fresh championship jewelry.

Reese, who has been criticized all season for her celebrations and taunting, said her showboating had added meaning.

“I don’t fit the narrative,” Reese said. “I don’t fit the box that you all want me to be in. I’m too hood. I’m too ghetto. You all told me that all year. But when other people do it, you all say nothing. So this is for the girls that look like me that’s going to speak up on what they believe in — that’s unapologetically you.”

Tigers point guard Alexis Morris seemed to refer after the game to the massive attention Clark had been getting throughout the tournament.

“Caitlin, you had an amazing game, you a great player,” Morris said. “But you got to put some respect on LSU.”

In her national semifinal, Clark had led the upset of all upsets in this tournament, when she dropped 41 points against thenundefeated South Carolina, ending what many thought would be a romp for the Gamecocks to a second-straight championship.

One fan during that game prominently

waved a sign that read, “In Clark we trust,” as Clark cemented her stardom in front of a record television audience, including the curiously casual and fans who have been following her rise all along.

As the teams shook hands after the game, Mulkey told Clark that she was a “generational player.”

The game was tightly officiated. The referees called 37 fouls. Clark had to spend extra time on the bench as she accumulated four fouls, her last on a technical for throwing a ball in frustration after Monika Czinano, Iowa’s second-leading scorer, picked up her fourth foul.

After the game, referee Lisa Jones said Clark was charged the technical because she didn’t give the ball back to a referee immediately and Iowa had already received a delayof-game warning in the third quarter.

Czinano and McKenna Warnock, another Iowa starter, both fouled out. Reese finished with four fouls.

Before their matchup, Mulkey acknowledged that she had never seen a player like Clark. “She’s going to get her points,” Mulkey said before the final.

And Clark did, scoring 30 points to go with eight assists, but the Tigers had one of their most superb shooting games all season and their fourth-highest scoring output.

“The biggest thing is it’s really special, I don’t think it’s going to set in for me for quite some time,” said Clark, a junior “I want my legacy to be the impact I can have on young kids and the people in the state of Iowa, and I hope I brought them a lot of joy this season,

I hope this team brought them a lot of joy.”

It started early for LSU when Johnson knocked down the first of the Tigers’ three baskets from 3-point range in the first quarter. That showed the Hawkeyes that they couldn’t approach this matchup in the same way they had toppled South Carolina, by letting them have outside shots.

“Caitlin’s going to have to play some defense,” Morris said.

Morris was proved right. The Tigers led a 3-point barrage, anchored by Carson, who made five in the first half to help build a 17-point halftime lead. The Tigers finished 11 for 17 on 3-pointers — more than keeping up with Iowa’s 14 for 30 — and Morris made all six of her shots in the fourth quarter, scoring 15 in the period as Iowa tried to stop the rout.

The title followed a tumultuous several years for Mulkey. She came to LSU two seasons ago after winning three championships over 21 seasons at Baylor, including in 2012 in large part because of star center Brittney Griner.

The Tigers’ championship season was reflective of how much college basketball has changed. Mulkey had significant roster turnover, and four of her five starters were transfers. Some coaches, including Mississippi’s Yolett McPhee-McCuin, have described the NCAA’s transfer portal like going shopping for players.

Mulkey’s portal shopping was effective, as she secured Reese (Maryland), the top available transfer, and others who played key roles in the championship win, including Carson (West Virginia) and LaDazhia Williams (Missouri).

After Mulkey left Baylor, she said, she hadn’t realized how helpful the portal would be in accelerating her success.

“Obviously the transfer portal was good to us at LSU,” Mulkey said. “But you know what, in another week, kids can depart, kids that you wouldn’t expect would depart.”

Coaches such as Mulkey, with multiple championships and a proven record of sending players to the WNBA, dominate in the portal; it was Mulkey’s name and track record that helped her land Reese and quickly catapult LSU atop college basketball.

“She is the plan,” Morris said. “Coach Mulkey is the GOAT. All LSU needed was Coach Mulkey.”

Morris, Williams and Carson will be gone next season, as they have exhausted their college eligibility. So Mulkey will probably be going shopping in the portal again this offseason.

But first she’ll party. Glitter and sequin fans beware.

Angel Reese of Louisiana State was named the most outstanding player of the Final Four as the Tigers rolled to a 102-85 win.

A steep learning curve and a steeper forkball for Mets rookie

By JAMES WAGNER

At 2 p.m. Eastern time Sunday, Kodai Senga threw the first pitch of his major league career. It was a 99 mph fastball that dropped out of the strike zone. What would unfold over the next several innings of the New York Mets’ 5-1 win over the Miami Marlins exemplified both the adjustment period Senga faces in Major League Baseball and his tantalizing potential.

As they worked to rebuild their starting pitching rotation over the winter, the Mets committed $188 million to three pitchers: three-time Cy Young Award-winner Justin Verlander, veteran left-hander José Quintana and Senga, who had spent the previous 11 seasons with the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks in Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball. The longest of those contracts went to Senga, a 30-year-old right-hander, who signed for $75 million over five years.

Senga, though, will face the steepest learning curve of the bunch since this is all new to him. He won multiple Japan Series titles while starring for the Hawks, dominated hitters in the 2017 World Baseball Classic and earned a gold medal with Japan in the Summer Olympics in 2021. But MLB features most of the best talent in the world, a larger baseball that doesn’t feature the tack Japanese pitchers are accustomed to, and a more frequent pitching schedule.

Senga more than passed his first test. He allowed one run over 5 1/3 innings and struck out eight, all with his trademark forkball, a pitch that drops — or disappears — so quickly as it approaches the plate that is has been nicknamed the ghost fork. He overcame a rocky start to flash the abilities of a pitcher whom the Mets (3-1) hope will help them get far this season.

“Definitely a lot of nerves,” Senga said through interpreter Hiro Fujiwara after a victory that capped a season-opening series win. “My legs felt like a ghost. Once I got into that little bit of a pinch, I started to settle down and calm myself down.”

“Who’s not nervous on their debut?” added Mets outfielder Tommy Pham, who helped Senga secure his first win by smacking three hits, including a two-run home run in the fifth inning.

Senga’s first inning had it all. His first

pitch showed the power of his right arm. Hoping to strike out the Marlins leadoff hitter Luis Arraez, Senga threw the forkball with two strikes. But Arraez, the American League batting champion last season with Minnesota, reached and flicked the diving pitch into the outfield for a single. Senga then fell behind Jorge Soler, who dumped a 98 mph fastball into right field for a run-scoring double. Senga walked the next two batters, Jazz Ch -

isholm Jr. and Avisaíl García, missing by trying to dot the edges. After a mound visit by Mets pitching coach Jeremy Hefner, Senga wriggled out of his own noout, bases-loaded jam.

“He responded really well,” said Mets manager Buck Showalter, who admitted he had been curious to see Senga’s resiliency in such a moment.

For his first career strikeout, Senga fanned Yuli Gurriel on a forkball that

caused Gurriel to flail so badly that the bat flew out of his hands and into foul territory past third base. Senga struck out Jesús Sánchez for the second out. And when right fielder Starling Marte raced over to catch a fly ball for the third out, Senga smacked his glove in delight and met his teammates near the dugout stairs to high-five them.

“It’s nasty,” Mets shortstop Francisco Lindor said of Senga’s signature pitch. Added Pham, “A lot of swing and misses on that. I had a center field view and based off their swings, it was disgusting. The ball was just falling off the table.”

From the second inning on, Senga looked much more at ease. He got called for an automatic ball for a pitch clock violation but needed only 10 pitches to complete the frame, compared with 36 in the first. He again waited to congratulate his teammates after the final out, particularly the infielders who helped him out by turning an inning-ending double play. In a two-strikeout third frame, Senga needed only seven pitches.

“It’s pretty obvious his teammates are really drawn to him,” Showalter said. “They really wanted that for him today. He’s fit in really well, regardless of how he pitched or didn’t pitch. We’ve tried to adjust to him and he’s adjusted. Think about all the things that have been thrown at him, between the pitch clock and a lot of rule differences. I’m really proud of him.”

After Senga struck out Chisholm for the first out of the sixth inning, Showalter emerged from the dugout to pull Senga from the game after 88 pitches. Walking off the mound, Senga was met with a standing ovation from the Mets fans in attendance. In the dugout, Senga received congratulatory smacks from his teammates, and a comment from ace Max Scherzer that made him laugh.

Leading up to Sunday’s game, which started at 1:40 p.m. in Miami but 2:40 a.m. on Monday in Japan, Senga had joked that he would call a bunch of friends back home to wake them up if they weren’t tuning in. He didn’t end up doing so, Senga said after the game, because he said he had too much to do Sunday to prepare for the game.

Senga said he will keep the balls from his first pitch and his first strikeout as souvenirs.

“Very happy,” he said, “and very pleased to be here.”

Kodai Senga was solid in his first start for the Mets. He allowed one run on three hits over five and one-thirds innings, striking out eight and walking three.

Tommy Pham went 3 for 4 in Sunday’s game with a single, a double and a home run.

How to Play:

Fill in the empty fields with the numbers from 1 through 9.

Sudoku Rules:

Every row must contain the numbers from 1 through 9

Every column must contain the numbers from 1 through 9

Every 3x3 square must contain the numbers from 1 through 9

Crossword

Crossword #J2B4Z6F9

Down

1. Syrup brand since 1902

2. Gave ____ story (fish for sympathy)

3. Chinese side dish

4. Like squid squirt

5. Ultraviolet ray blocker

6. Bottom line

7. In-flight no.

8. Vow phrase

9. Zodiac creature 10. Aptitude 11. Make a boo-boo

Answers on page 30

Aries (Mar 21-April 20)

As lively Mercury moves into Taurus from today it angles towards Pluto, paving the way for a process of change. This and other planetary influences, suggest the coming days and weeks may have quite an impact. A new beginning might be on the cards. And yet as exciting as this appears, there is no need to rush, no matter how compelled you feel to get moving right away, Aries.

Taurus (April 21-May 21)

With the planet of talk and thought moving into your sign today, you’ll find it easier to put words to ideas and feelings. If an opportunity presents itself to get a project up and running, it might seem that if you don’t seize the moment, you’ll lose out. It can be more a case of waiting for things to settle though Taurus, then you’ll know what to do and when to do it. Patience is key!

Gemini (May 22-June 21)

If the last few days have been a revelation, the coming days can bring further insights, but perhaps of a different order. Mercury’s move into Taurus and your spiritual zone, can inspire you to pay attention to your dreams and to any synchronicities that strike you as being meaningful. Something of this nature could capture your attention and encourage you to take action.

Cancer (June 22-July 23)

Connecting with friends could help you unwind and boost your morale. They may have ideas on all kinds of issues, and a chat might help you feel better and encourage you not to give up on something. As convivial Mercury enters your friendship zone, you’ll be ready to connect with those who share your interests. Plus, someone you meet could have a profound effect on you.

Leo (July 24-Aug 23)

There are times when things come together easily, and others when you’ll need to make an effort. Feeling nervous about taking a step in a new direction? If so, you may not do it, unless a situation becomes so uncomfortable that you have no option but to move on. You might surprise yourself and find that you can accomplish more, and go much further than you imagined possible.

Virgo (Aug 24-Sep 23)

As expressive Mercury your guide planet moves into steadying Taurus, it encourages you to go exploring. It aligns with powerbroker Pluto for a day or so too, and this could lead to a reluctance to break away from one situation, so you can freely embrace another. And while it may be difficult to completely let go, visualizing this possibility might kickstart the process, Virgo.

Libra (Sep 24-Oct 23)

Mercury’s angle to Pluto in Aquarius, can help you take a detached view of a relationship that requires some attention. Don’t feel bad about getting some distance, even if only for a short while, as this may be just what you need to see things in perspective. Your opinion of this person could change as a result, but you will also know where you stand, which is crucial, Libra.

Scorpio (Oct 24-Nov 22)

Trying to resolve a knotty problem that seems resistant to change? Deep down, you may be happy for things to stay as they are, even if this seems hard to believe. You’ll need to be completely honest with yourself if you’re to get to the bottom of this. Mercury also encourages you to be practical and to factor in time for things you enjoy. Don’t make it all about work, Scorpio.

Sagittarius (Nov 23-Dec 21)

Mercury’s move into your lifestyle zone can set you thinking about what you really want. As it aligns with Pluto too, you’ll be ready to dig deep and consider various options. You’ll realize that something needs to change, and it may be that you’ve been looking in the wrong direction all along. Go with the flow and enjoy yourself, and key insights may show up out of the blue.

Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 20)

You may be motivated to learn a new skill, if it can help you increase your income. Mercury’s move into Taurus, might inspire you to explore a hobby or interest, or work on a talent you already have. And if you’re motivated to turn it into a side-business, you could do very well. Mind, with Pluto in the mix, you will need to rise above a tendency to be overly critical of your efforts.

Aquarius (Jan 21-Feb 19)

As Mercury glides into your home zone, you may develop a fascination with your family tree and be keen to research it in depth. Understanding more about your ancestors could be a revelation, and might perhaps clear up some long-standing issues. And if you’re besieged by paper piles and old magazines, you’ll be inspired to get rid of them and restore harmony.

Pisces (Feb 20-Mar 20)

Your ability to multi-ask could ramp-up, as the planet of talk and thought moves into your communication zone. You’ll be doing more chatting, texting, emailing and a lot more trips and journeys. One thing to beware of is information overload, as you’ll be busy looking for answers to all kinds of questions. If you’re overthinking something, turn to your intuition instead.

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