The public prosecution service is asking for jail on remand as coercive measures for two officers of the National Police and three agents from the National Drug Control Agency (DNCD) in San Juan de la Maguana, accused of possession of cocaine.
Those charged with the offence are Lieutenant Colonel Andrés Martínez, Captain José Castillo, and DNCD agents Wilson Sánchez, Wilkin Peralta and Samuel Escalante. The five are accused of illegal acts in violation of the law about drugs and controlled substances.
The DNCD had received several complaints about the five officials, which led to an investigation by its Internal Affairs department that placed covert surveillance equipment that caught the men engaged in the so-called irregularities.
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El Dia
30 November 2017
