Rafael "Rafy" Dones Arroyo (1944-1984)[1] was a Puerto Rican alleged drug dealer and independence advocate.
Rafy Dones was known for allegedly being one of the first "bichotes"- or drug lords-in Puerto Rico.
[2] Dones was friends with Filiberto Ojeda Rios, and he was alleged to have had connections to Los Macheteros, a clandestine militant and insurgent organization that advocates for Puerto Rico's independence from the United States.
The Padilla murder case received substantial attention on Puerto Rican press, to the point that Dones' lawyers asked for a mistrial based on their belief that the case's jurors were allowed to read articles about it on newspapers such as El Vocero.
[3] Dones was gunned down in 1984 as he was leaving a hospital, where he had gone to a rehab center to treat an addiction to methadone that he had developed.