National Drug Control Agency (DNCD) chief Rolando Rosado Mateo has announced that in a month’s time the Dominican Republic will have a radar airplane that will be used to detect boats coming to the country carrying drugs
He said that the maritime radar would be fitted to the Falcon 50 plane that was confiscated at Punta Cana earlier this year, when the DNCD also impounded 700 kilos of cocaine.
Rosado Mateo said that only Venezuela and Honduras have this technology in the whole of Central and South America. He went on to say that a plane like this would cost US$10 million and the country did not have that sort of money to buy one, so they were ‘borrowing’ it from the drug dealers.
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