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Jet Set Nightclub Owner Arrested and Charged With Involuntary Homicide Over Deadly Nightclub Roof Collapse

Jet Set nightclub owner Antonio Espaillat has been arrested and charged with involuntary homicide over the deadly nightclub roof collapse in April.

The owner of the Jet Set nightclub in the Dominican Republic was arrested last week and charged with involuntary homicide over the tragic roof collapse on April 8 where 235 people died and nearly 200 more were injured. The attorney general’s office said in a statement that the siblings “demonstrated immense irresponsibility and negligence by failing to do what was necessary to ensure that the Jet Set Club’s roof was adequately and expertly repaired.” The unnamed employee’s lawyer said his client had turned their phone over to investigators, containing evidence of conversations in which “he gave an account of the situation at the nightclub in which he expressed his fears and apprehensions, and his suggestion that the event be suspended.

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