The National Drug Control Agency (DNCD) has announced that in a joint operation with the Dominican Armada (Navy) it confiscated 775 packages of what is presumed to be cocaine or heroin being transported on a speedboat by three Venezuelans to Saona Island in the east.
DNCD spokesman Dario Medrano said that the Armada detected the boat once it came into Dominican waters and was intercepted by a specialist DNCD team that had flown to Saona Island on an Air Force helicopter.
Medrano said that the speedboat was equipped with satellite radio and that the packages were inside 31 sacks that had now been taken to DNCD headquarters before being sent to the National Forensic Science Laboratory (INACIF). The Venezuelans are under arrest.
Medrano also informed that the DNCD had arrested two men in Puerto Plata with 10 packages of a white powder, again thought to be cocaine or heroin as well as a car and a pistol.
The arrested men are believed to be members of a drug dealing gang that imports the drugs before exporting them to the United States in false-bottomed suitcases on commercial flights from airports around the country.
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