Santo Domingo.- Agents from the National Directorate for Drug Control (DNCD) and members of the Public Prosecutor’s Office arrested three men and seized more than 300 electronic cigarettes filled with suspected marijuana, as well as several chocolate bars containing the same substance, during an interdiction operation carried out in the province of La Vega.
DNCD agents, coordinated by prosecutors, were carrying out surveillance work against several men in the Pontón sector, near the Duarte Highway, because according to intelligence reports they were engaged in trafficking and selling controlled substances.
Upon approaching the men, who were standing next to a Hyundai Sonata, they attempted to escape, but were unsuccessful. Upon inspecting the vehicle, several cardboard boxes were found, inside which they found a total of 339 electronic cigarettes, filled with a liquid that appears to be marijuana, weighing 25,268 grams, as well as nine chocolate bars containing the same substance, weighing 545 grams.
The detainees are in the custody of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of La Vega to be brought to justice in the next few hours for violating Law 50-88 on drugs and controlled substances.
313 people arrested
A total of 137,243 grams of various drugs were seized by authorities during multiple operations against micro-trafficking of controlled substances, carried out in the last 48 hours.
In more than 2 thousand operations and raids deployed throughout much of the country, DNCD agents and members of the Public Ministry seized 102,198 grams of cocaine, 32,060 of marijuana, 2,979 of crack, 4.4 grams of methamphetamines, as well as four (04) ecstasy pills.
They also confiscated two firearms, 25 knives and machetes, 19 motorcycles, 40 scales, 11 communication radios, two bulletproof vests, 95 cell phones, among other evidence.
The Public Prosecutor’s Office and the DNCD have intensified interdiction operations against illicit drug trafficking, managing to remove thousands of grams of cocaine, marijuana, crack, ecstasy and other narcotic substances from the streets.
