The Police anti-narcotics unit (DICAN) has announced the arrest of 33-year old Yeimy Richiez de la Rosa for cocaine trafficking. As reported in El Caribe, Richiez was an employee of the Customs Department assigned to the Cap Cana Marina in Punta Cana. The arrest took place in Higuey where she was driving a Toyota Land Cruiser Prado SUV. When asked to stop by the Police unit she fled and was pursued and collided with the Ford Explorer SUV being driven by the DICAN personnel. The woman lives in Calle La Habana, Luisa Perla in Higuey. When agents searched the vehicle, they found a purple suitcase containing 11 packages of cocaine, weighing 11.28 grams. Richiez reportedly said that she was supposed to deliver the cocaine to a person she did not know and was to be paid RD$1.2 million.
As reported, intelligence services were on her trail.
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