2005News

Liquid cocaine seized, Dutch citizen arrested

The National Drug Control Department (DNCD) arrested a Dutch citizen at the Gregorio Luperon Airport in Puerto Plata, when he tried to leave the country with four bottles of rum containing liquid cocaine with a total weight of 3.361 kgs. According to El Caribe, the alleged drug trafficker was identified as 35-year-old Johnny Charles Louis Blomsma. His arrest took place as he was boarding Arke Fly flight 342 to Amsterdam. DNCD spokesman Buenaventura Bueno Torres said the bottles with the drug were being transported by Blomsma in a suitcase that was part of his luggage. He was arrested in the presence of a District Attorney assigned to the anti-narcotics institution, said Bueno.