The National Drug Control Directorate (DNCD) held a press conference yesterday to display large quantities of drugs recently seized in the nation’s airports and to discuss the cases of several "mules" – people hired to transport drugs – captured during the last week with cocaine and heroine. In one case, two Ecuadorians and one Dominican were captured at Punta Cana Airport after debarking from a flight from Colombia. The two Ecuadorians had cocaine packets in their stomachs – 121 in one, totaling 69 grams, and 104 in another, totaling 1,031 grams. The Dominican was arrested as an accomplice. In another case, a Venezuelan was arrested and has disgorged 84 packets of heroine, with a total weight of 999.5 grams. In a fourth case, at Puerto Plata’s Gregorio Luper?n Airport, a woman fled from the airport while her baggage was being searched. The bags contained 53 grams of cocaine.
