LAS AMÉRICAS AIRPORT.- The National Directorate for Drug Control (DNCD,) with the support of the CESAC Specialized Airport Security Corps, seized 197 cocaine packages at this air terminal and arrested at least eleven employees.
The details indicate that the officers of the DNCD and members of the Public Ministry, based on intelligence reports, proceeded on Friday night to inspect an aircraft on a commercial flight destined for the city of Miami, United States, from this airport.
Subsequently, and in the presence of an assistant prosecutor, a more exhaustive verification was carried out, occupying seven suitcases in one of the plane’s holds, inside which the 197 packages of cocaine were found distributed, according to the DNCD report.
The institution states that in a preliminary way, in this first phase, “we can report that up to now the Public Ministry and the intelligence agencies have eleven people under investigation, including airport employees.”
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“We want to clearly establish that it is an investigation that is just beginning and that as the process develops, to the same extent, more details would be offered, this so as not to hinder the course of the investigations,” says the National Directorate for Drug Control. (DNCD) by revealing the confiscation of the cocaine shipment.
The DNCD highlights that this cache seized at the Las Américas International Airport is the one with the largest volume confiscated at the airport terminal in the current management of the organization headed by Vice Admiral José Manuel Cabrera Uloloa.
It indicates that the frustrated shipment of the shipment of 197 packages of cocaine to the city of Miami, United States, is another example of the high commitment of the Government of the Dominican Republic to fight with firmness and determination the national and international drug trafficking networks.
The authorities did not identify the airline where the cocaine shipment was found, but it was learned that the eleven people arrested in relation to the case work in different airport service companies.
It was learned that from the Las Américas Airport, the prisoners were transferred to the DNCD headquarters, where they are extensively interrogated by officers in charge of the confiscation investigations.
The 197 packages seized in this new operation were transferred under strong custody to the National Institute of Forensic Sciences (INACIF) headquarters to determine the type and weight.
Since December 1, the DNCD redoubled its personnel and controls at the different airports of the country, with the purpose of counteracting the entry or exit of narcotics, drug traffickers taking advantage of the considerable displacement of passengers due to the celebration of the Christmas holidays. and New Year.
A NOTE
31 tons
The spokesman for the National Directorate for Drug Control (DNCD), Carlos Devers assured that during the last 11 months they have recorded more than 31 tons of narcotics seized at airports, ports, and borders of the Dominican Republic, which shows the fierce fight against drug trafficking. ..
