Santo Domingo.-The National Directorate for Drug Control (DNCD), supported by the Airport Security Corps and members of the Public Ministry, seized 6,195 pills, presumably ecstasy, at Las Américas International Airport.
The anti-narcotics agents were carrying out inspection operations in one of the terminal’s warehouses, when a canine unit alerted to foreign substances in a box, inside which there were toys and children’s clothes.
Later, in the presence of a deputy prosecutor, a more exhaustive review was carried out, occupying eight sheets filled with the pills, embedded with a special glue in the lower and upper lids of the box.
The package was supposedly sent by a woman from Amsterdam, and would be received by a man, according to the manifesto, with an address in the Villa Consuelo sector, National District.
The Public Ministry and the DNCD deepen the investigations and try to establish if the names and addresses placed in the shipment are really true or if, on the contrary, they are false locations and identities.
The DNCD, with the support of official agencies, has increased controls and surveillance, managing to thwart the entry and exit of controlled substances from the country’s air terminals.
