The National Directorate for Drug Control (DNCD) and the Dominican Republic Navy, supported by state intelligence agencies and under the coordination of the Public Ministry, seized 454 packages, presumably cocaine, in the province of La Altagracia.
DNCD agents and members of the Navy deployed an extensive maritime and land interdiction operation on the coast of Bayahibe, after receiving reports that a Go Fast-type boat, with several occupants, intended to leave Dominican territory for the neighboring island. of Puerto Rico, with an undetermined quantity of controlled substances,
As reported by Carlos Devers, spokesman for the anti-drug entity, after intense monitoring, the individuals, noticing the patrolling of naval units and interceptor boats, returned until they reached the shore of the beach, causing a land pursuit, which minutes later, gave as a result, the seizure of 16 sacks, containing the 454 packages.
He explained that in the operation, which lasted just over 10 hours, five men were arrested, all Dominicans, and the location of other members of this international drug trafficking network is activated. The Public Ministry, the intelligence agencies of the DNCD and the Navy, maintain an investigation open to arrest and bring to justice other members of this criminal network.
“According to the investigations, it is a criminal structure that operates in the eastern part of the country and uses speedboats to traffic drugs between the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico,” said the spokesman.
This 2022, 3,554 kilograms of cocaine alone, more than 800 pounds of marijuana, hundreds of ecstasy pills, crack and other controlled substances have been seized.
