Army colonel Rafael Collado Ureña was arrested at the San Juan, Puerto Rico Muñoz Marín International Airport (SJU), while allegedly attempting to complete a drug trafficking operation with undercover DEA agents. The operation was carried out jointly with National Drug Control Agency agents who in Dominican territory seized 12.3 kilos of cocaine part of the drug trafficking network associated with Collado Ureña.
El Dia recalled that Collado, attired in his army uniform, had accompanied the coffin during the burial of former colonel Amado Gonzalez Gonzalez in 2009 after the later was murdered on orders by Puerto Rican capo Jose David Figueroa Agosta. While in active service, González was known to have collaborated with the drug trafficking operations.
When journalists asked about why he his accompanying the coffin, he said that late officer was his class promotion friend. El Dia reports that Collado Ureña graduated from the Academia Militar Batalla de las Carreras in 1990 and had served for more than 27 years in the army.
7 Dias reported that after the colonel’s arrest in San Juan, Minister of Defense Rubén Paulino Sem ordered his suspension from the Army and said he is coordinating with DEA agents for his return to the Dominican Republic.
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El Dia
Metro News
7 Dias
19 June 2017
