The Drug Control Department (DNCD) arrested a woman and is looking for her two daughters, ages 16 and 17, who were caught with two suitcases loaded with 52 kilos of cocaine at the Las Americas International Airport over the weekend. The drug authorities believe they are part of a gang of drug traffickers with connections in Colombia. The airport drug authorities suspected the suitcases of the two girls, who when asked to open these said they had left the keys in the car and never returned. Their 42-year old mother Maria Medina was detained. The name on her passport is Maria Ludovina Mateo Salado. DNCD agents say she had been released from jail in December 1998 after serving five years for attempting to transport one kilo of cocaine.
