Agents from the National Drug Control Directorate (DNCD), supported by members of the Specialized Airport Security Corps (CESAC) and State Intelligence agencies, coordinated by the Public Ministry, arrested at the International Airport of the Americas, JFPG, four foreigners who were traveling on the same flight to France, Paris, with a stomach full of alleged narcotic substances.
The official organizations stationed in the terminal, after receiving intelligence reports, proceeded to profile several passengers and after carrying out the inspection protocol, it was possible to detect, through one of the X-ray machines, foreign bodies in the digestive tract of one of them. the foreigners.
The same procedure was later carried out with the other Frenchmen, who also tested positive for narcotic substances in their stomach.
The detainedthree men and a woman, were transferred to the Central Hospital of the Armed Forces, where in the hands of specialist doctors they began the process of expelling the bags of the substance.
“At the moment the four foreigners, who were reportedly traveling together to Paris, have expelled more than 100 bags, while they continue the process of evacuating the substance in the hospital.”
The authorities assure that it is a network that uses Dominicans and foreigners as drug trafficking mules to bring drugs to Europe and USA.
The detainees, aged 18, 21 and two aged 25, are in custody waiting to conclude the process of expulsion of the substance, and then be handed over to the Permanent Attention Jurisdiction of the Santo Domingo province for the corresponding purposes.
Meanwhile the Ministry and the DNCD They are deepening the investigations to determine if there are others involved in the frustrated international drug trafficking operation, to arrest them and bring them to justice.