In the midst of a gun chase, members of the National Drug Control Directorate (DNCD), the Dominican Navy, Air Force, agents from security agencies and the Public Ministry, arrested five Dominicans on the Barahona peninsula with a shipment of 677 packets of cocaine aboard a speedboat.
After traveling several nautical miles and amid gunshots, the boat was intercepted on El Quemaito beach in Barahona, where numerous members of the DNCD and heavily armed soldiers, occupying the drugs and arresting the five Creoles.
In addition to the drug, the Go Fats brand boat, with two outboard motors of 100 horsepower each, the authorities also seized several jugs of gasoline, tarpaulins, life jackets and two Toyota vehicles from the prisoners. that it is presumed they would transport the frustrated shipment of narcotics.
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According to the DNCD report, the 677 packages of cocaine were distributed in 26 bags, hermetically covered with adhesive tape.
The DNCD report says that during the action there were no injuries.
According to the details, several subjects who were waiting in the area where the boat was intercepted and who were on board the vehicles, managed to escape from the place, for which the authorities carry out operations in different points of Barahona in their search.
The five Creoles detained remained in the hands of the Public Ministry of the Province of Barahona, while the 677 packages, presumably of cocaine, were transferred to the headquarters of the Institute of Forensic Sciences to determine the number of kilos of the drug.
The National Directorate for Drug Control (DNCD) expresses its satisfaction with the support that the institution has been receiving from both the Dominican Navy, Air Force, the security agencies of the armed forces and the Public Ministry.
It indicates that as a result of this combined work, during the course of the current year 2022, 27 tons of drugs have been seized, more than 90 percent cocaine, transported to the country by drug traffickers from Venezuela and Colombia.
The institution, which is headed by Vice Admiral José Manuel Cabrera Ulloa, warns that it will not give truce to the groups of national and foreign drug traffickers, who, in addition to large shipments of drugs, have also seized firearms, military supplies, vehicles, money and property. of various kinds.
