2001News

Major drug control operation

The National Drug Control Department has announced the dismantling of a international drug trafficking ring headed by a Dominican who coordinated the shipment of more than 2,786 kilos of cocaine from Colombia to Puerto Rico. Organized groups in St. Martin and St. Croix participated in the operation. Jacobo Mateo Moquete, spokesman for the DNCD, said they arrested Wilfredo Andujar at his Santo Domingo apartment in affluent Los Cacicazgos neighborhood. US authorities are also seeking to extradite him. The DR operation was carried out in coordination with the Drug Enforcement Agency of the US.