Eulogio Ignacio Medina Martinez has changed his story about the theft he was the victim of at the Las Americas International Airport. As originally reported in the press, he had identified, using surveillance video, three members of the National Drug Control Agency (DNCD) as the thieves who had taken almost US$10,000 from him in an airport bathroom. At a press conference at the DNCD, he said he was no longer accusing first lieutenants Martin Chin Valdez, of the Army, Adalin Medina Florian, of the Air Force, and Franklyn Brito Montero, all assigned to the DNCD at the airport. “I want to make this clarification because I do not want these people to be unfairly accused and lose their prestige and profession. At that moment I was very nervous and suspected anyone who was nearby,” he said. He also denied the existence of a video that supposedly showed him being kidnapped and extorted by three DNCD agents. He said the case is under investigation.
During the same press conference, the DNCD said the packages seized during an operation last weekend near Tabara Arriba did not contain cocaine. The DNCD had seized 222 packets of a powder, presumed to be cocaine or heroin, inside a fighting cocks’ cage and near a banana plantation in the municipality of Tabara Arriba, Azua.
According to DNCD spokeswoman Jacqueline Lamarche, two men were taken into custody: Felix Marcial Castillo, 63 and Agapito Ramirez Mejia, 49, who were arrested during a raid on a house in the southwestern municipality.
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