The Armed Forces have arrested 300 Haitians and one Dominican, and seized a truck in the province of Dajabon near the Haitian border. El Caribe reports that the Haitians were rounded up in operations carried out in the farms and towns of Copey, La Vigia, Loma de Cabrera and Dajabon. The truck in question left Haiti and entered the DR with RD$500,000 worth of powdered milk and 200 undocumented Haitians concealed aboard. The commander of “Operation Cowboy,” Colonel Antonio Taveraas Perez, said the arrests were made owing to intelligence gained by Armed Forces working along the northern area of the border.
El Caribe also reports that the US Embassy’s military attache in the DR, Glenn R Huber, visited Dajabon with Colonel Taveras to evaluate the operation’s progress. Huber displayed his satisfaction with the work being carried out by the Dominican soldiers to combat drug and arms trafficking, as well as the smuggling of vehicles and people across the border. The US official surveyed the area by helicopter with the Dominican military.