Salcedo.- The National Police of the Hermanas Mirabal province, announced that some 40 Haitian nationals were detained, while a truck tried to enter this municipality in a camouflaged manner.
The information was offered to this medium by the entity’s colonel, René Luna Kundhart, who stated that said arrest was due to the intervention of the 911 Department based in Tenares, who were able to detect the invaders through security cameras.
According to the police chief of the area, the undocumented immigrants who were seized with knives and machetes, apparently to carry out work on agricultural farms in the area, will be handed over to the General Directorate of Migration (DGM) so that they can continue with the work. of repatriation to the neighboring nation.
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In addition to the undocumented immigrants, the police arrested two Dominicans who were supposedly accompanying the Haitians and who, according to the information given, will be investigated so that if found guilty they will be brought to justice.
According to the uniformed officer, after the aforementioned vehicle passed through the Tenares municipality, 7 kilometers from Salcedo, the 911 security cameras were able to record the white Daihatsu truck in which the undocumented immigrants were transported, and when passing through the entrance of The community of San José de Conuco were detained and from there transferred to the police station.