SANTO DOMINGO.-The private plane in which 200 packages of cocaine were seized prior to its takeoff last Tuesday at the Punta Cana airport bound for Canada, would have made at least 14 flights to and from the Dominican Republic between the months of January and what runs from april
According to the flight history of the Mitsubishi CRJ-100ER aircraft, registration C-FWRR, to which EL DÍA had access through the records of the FlightAware flight tracking platform, it last arrived in the country on March 31. March at 6:37 pm, coming from Toronto, Canada.
During the month of February, the aircraft, owned by Pivot Airlines, arrived in the country at the La Romana airport on Tuesday the 15th at 6:00 a.m., to depart three days later, that is, on Friday the 18th at 11:59 a.m. , bound for Toronto.
consecutive trips
The largest number of flights made by the aforementioned aircraft was recorded in January, the month in which it made 10 trips from the Las Américas International Airport (AILA) to the airport located on Providenciales Island, belonging to the Turks and Caicos Islands, three of these for consecutive days.
On Monday, January 10 of this year, the plane arrived at the Las Américas International Airport at 2:32 pm from the Providenciales airport and returned to it one hour and 12 minutes later.
The majority of seizures correspond to cocaine.
The next day, that is, on Tuesday, January 11, the private plane also arrived at the Las Américas International Airport at 2:22 pm, from Providenciales and returned to its point of origin an hour later.
For the third consecutive day, on Wednesday, January 12, the aircraft made the same route from Providenciales to Las Américas at 12:50 noon and returned at 2:25 pm, the same day.
Similarly, the aircraft traveled consecutively on Thursday, January 6 and Friday, January 7, both days with a round trip from the same airports.
Confiscation
The 200 packages of cocaine, weighing 209 kilograms, were detected during an inspection of the plane based on intelligence reports.
The drug was found in the control compartments of the aircraft in eight black packages, each containing 25 packages.
In relation to the case, the Public Ministry and the DNCD keep under investigation 11 people, nine Canadians, one Indian and one Dominican, including crew members and passengers, who were questioned to determine their involvement in the frustrated shipment.
flights
— Private
The aircraft, manufactured by Bombardier Aerospace/Mitsubishi, registration C-FWRR, is used on charter flights for exclusive clients, businessmen, and government and sports agencies.
DNCD occupies a ton in 4 days
drug trafficking In the last four days, the National Drug Control Directorate (DNCD) has seized 1,393 packets of cocaine, totaling some 7 tons of the substance so far this year.
It is recalled that last Saturday the anti-narcotics agency seized 1,167 kilos of cocaine at the Caucedo Multimodal Port, inside a container bound for Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Two days later, in the same port, another 66.66 kilograms of cocaine were seized, which is presumed to be related to the 1,167, since they were also destined for Rotterdam.
While the 200 packages occupied yesterday at the Punta Cana International Airport registered a weight of 209 kilograms.
