Military personnel are being busted for human smuggling after years of the authorities looking the other way.
Three Dominican soldiers have been sentenced to three months in prison for accepting bribes to smuggle Haitian migrants into the country.
The soldiers, Hansel Pérez García, Andro Américo Medina Guzmán, and Yunior Manuel Novas Cuevas, were stationed at the La Cadena checkpoint in the Carrizal-Elías Piña section. They were caught on surveillance footage accepting payments to allow Haitian nationals with irregular immigration status to cross the border.
The military personnel will serve their sentences at the Elías Piña Correctional and Rehabilitation Center.
This is not the first time Pérez García has been involved in such activities. According to press reports, he was implicated in a similar incident last June.
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