Santo Domingo.- Agents of thea National Drug Control Directorate (DNCD) and members of the Specialized Airport Security Corps (CESAC), coordinated by the Public Ministry, confiscated five packages presumably of cocaine during an inspection operation held at the Punta Cana International Airport, La Altagracia province.
The agents and soldiers detained a Dominican who I intended to travel to Toronto, Canada.
After subjecting your luggage to a rexamination with x-ray machinessuspicious images were observed.
Following the instructions of the acting prosecutor, the corresponding protocol was applied and, upon opening the suitcase, five double-bottom backpacks containing the packages in the form of sheets were found inside.
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These were wrapped in carbon paper and transparent plastic, with a preliminary weight of 14 kilograms of the substance, which is presumed to be cocaine.
The detainee, a 33-year-old Dominican, He was handed over to the Permanent Attention Jurisdiction of the La Altagracia province, where coercive measures will be known in the next few hours.
The authorities expanded the investigative process to determine if there are others involved in this frustrated international drug trafficking operation, while the packages of the substance were sent to the National Institute of Forensic Sciences (INACIF) for the corresponding purposes.
