The funeral of the former mayor of Guayanilla Edgardo Arlequín Vélezwho died last Sunday, will start on Wednesday, the Association of Mayors of Puerto Rico.
According to the organization, the acts to fire the former official will begin in the Báez Memorial funeral, in the aforementioned municipality, from 4:00 pm
Then, on April 17, the remains of the former municipal leader will be exhibited at the Guayanilla Sports School at 3:00 pm later, at 4:00 pm, Arlequín Vélez will be honored with a presentation by the orchestra are salsa, since the former mayor also served as a music teacher.
The Mayors Association, in addition, indicated that this day at 6:00 pm there will be an honor guard in which the official messages of political figures will be pronounced, as well as their relatives and alumni of the School Band of Guayanilla.
The funerals will culminate on Friday, April 18 at 10:00 am with the departure of the funeral delegation from Báez Memorial to the Los Pinos cemetery.
Arlequín Vélez died on Sunday, according to the organization that groups the elected mayors of the Democratic Popular Party (PPD). The reasons for their death were not revealed immediately.
The former official was convicted for sexual harassment and for using the faculties of his position to obtain an illegal benefit. Similarly, he was sentenced to turn four years in prison and pressed by the PPD to resign his position as the main executive in Guayanilla and give way to reorganization and political campaign in the southern municipality.
The former governor Alejandro García Padilla gave him an pardon At the end of December 2016.
In December 2017, the Court of Appeals (TA) revoked the ruling for the crime of corruption contained in the Law of Government Ethics against the former mayor, but maintained the guilt ruling for the crime of sexual harassment, which imposed a penalty of six months in jail.
