A Dominican drug trafficker who was jealous of David Ortiz and felt “disrespected” by him ordered for him to be killed in the 2019 shooting that nearly took the former Red Sox slugger’s life, according to a report from the Associated Press.
Ortiz hired former Boston police commissioner Edward Davis as a private investigator to review the incident. Davis told The Boston Globe that drug-trafficker César Peralta was the man who orchestrated the shooting of Ortiz by placing a bounty and ordering a hit squad to try to kill him. Dominican authorities would not cooperate with the private investigation with Davis.
Peralta is currently being held in Puerto Rico without bond for unrelated charges for conspiracy to import cocaine and heroin. He was designated as a drug kingpin by U.S. authorities in 2019 and was extradited to Puerto Rico as a result.
