DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

The United States’ Homeland Security Investigations is stepping up the pace to halt the smuggling of weapons from Florida to Haiti. In a press conference on Wednesday, 17 August 2022, special agent Anthony Salisbury of Homeland Security Investigations in Miami and other US officials displayed dozens of recently seized military-grade weapons. These included heavy caliber weapons, including military-grade sniper rifles, belt-fed machine guns, semi-automatic pistols, a Barrett .50 sniper rifle, aK47, all originally destined for Haiti.

At present, Port-au-Prince is under siege by heavily armed gangs. The firearms are traced to suppliers from South Florida.

US Federal officials, customs and border officials, coast guard officials were among those present at the press conference where new resources and a new focus on stopping the trafficking of these weapons out of the...