- Thread starter Frank the Tank
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Big Narcotics Seizure and Arrest in Jarabacoa
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Yeah, but that could happen anywhere....:bunny::bunny:irate:irate:
And they seized 20US$ - I bet they bloody did!
Yeah, but that could happen anywhere....:bunny::bunny:irate:irate:And they seized 20US$ - I bet they bloody did!
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And they seized 20US$ - I bet they bloody did!
I am sure it was $20,000 US and it got lost in the translation of the article.
you know its election time and any misplaced $$$ always find its way back to the politicians; the real drug traffickers
It sure make for titillating reading but these types of drug seizures are less than a drop in the bucket to drug smugglers.
It is estimated that the growers and manufacturers of cocaine can afford to lose over 90% of their product and still turn a profit.
Announcements of this sort are meant to placate the public and press, to give the illusion that something is being done to combat narcotics, when in the end it amounts to nothing.
It is estimated that the growers and manufacturers of cocaine can afford to lose over 90% of their product and still turn a profit.
Announcements of this sort are meant to placate the public and press, to give the illusion that something is being done to combat narcotics, when in the end it amounts to nothing.
I'm not familiar with the area they are talking about but Barrio Blanco in Jarabacoa has been infested with drugs and drug dealers for a few ears now. It is considered to be a place to avoid, especially at night.
Wouldn't that make a good warehousing place, somewhere kinda off the drug radar with few ways in?
It's kinda been a big shrug here. I'm not sure those popped were locals, nobody we know can tell who they are...and this is a town where everybody knows your business...
Ever hear of a safe house or drop house? This is most likely what that place was.
Not that I'm aware. There are only 50-60,000 people here. That's a LOT of blow for a small population.
There is one neighborhood known for druggies and it's a small barrio.
I dunno. Frank's "safe house" suggestion makes sense.
That's not to say the entire island isn't "using" more than before, because they prolly are, unfortunately...
This is a small town and like any small town it can have bigger secrets sometimes then bigger towns just because the "control" isn't there.
Don't forget that this is and alway's be a town which changes a lot during weekends and holiday's since there are many who have a second house here so they are not really inhabitants of this town neither are they mingling in, at least the majority of them is not, so its impossible for anybody who lives here to "know" everybody.
Don't forget that this is and alway's be a town which changes a lot during weekends and holiday's since there are many who have a second house here so they are not really inhabitants of this town neither are they mingling in, at least the majority of them is not, so its impossible for anybody who lives here to "know" everybody.
What??
Bigger secrets in a small Dominican town?
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Do you honestly think that the families who have lived here for 75 years and are pretty much the town fathers don't know what's going on?
Unless you're among the chronically unobservant.Acira said:
Many of the folks with cabanas here BOUGHT their land and had their cabanas CONSTRUCTED by the local folks, the town fathers...so they are, in fact known.
Folks here know which businesses in the area are propped up by drug money. Which collapsed because of drug money (like my one time ATF Mexican restaurant, RIP.) Which bancas wash drug money. Which prestamos are funded with drug money. Which investment houses turn away suspected drug money.
Locals know who lives here and who doesn't. Outsiders, as you well know, stick out.
And nobody I've spoken with knows those who got popped or anything about them. Seems the locals think they are outsiders.
I'd like for bob saunders to offer his opinion. His wife is one of those deeply connected to the Jarabacoa grapevine, also.