The National Drug Control Commission (DNCD) has seized 1.387 kilos of cocaine discovered in a truck on the outskirts of Santo Domingo that included a National Police colonel as one of its passengers. According to the story in El Caribe, the arrests are part of a year-long operation being conducted in collaboration with the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). The Listin Diario, which also carries the story as its main headline, puts the value of the drugs at RD$900 million and reports that the DNCD has identified the passengers of the truck as NP Lieutenant Colonel Lidio Arturo Nin Terrero, former Army captain Quirino Ernesto Paulino Castillo, driver Tirso Cuevas Nin and Belikis Ubri Medrano. El Caribe says that Nin Terrero has been expelled from the NP and will be tried in the civilian court system. “This is the second biggest drug seizure made by the DNCD in the past 10 years,” stated a press release from the DR’s drug enforcement agency. They indicated that the 1,200 packets of cocaine were being transported from the DR’s southern border to a free zone company in Santiago, where it was to be processed for export to the US.