After the 8 January 2019 murder in Baní of a police colonel was seen as evidence of the complicity of the National Police with drug trafficking in the Dominican Republic, the Antinarcotics Central Agency (Dican), the drug combatting division of the National Police announced that in the past two weeks after the incident it has shutdown 1,471 drug points in 62 searches nationwide, and arrested and sent to justice 1,117 persons. Colonel Frank Duran, spokesman for the police, said in a press conference that drugs were seized, including cocaine, heroin and crack. He said the interventions included points in Santiago and Bani, where drug points were said to be dismantled.
General Juan Alberto Then, regional commander for the Central Region of the Police and Senator Wilton Guerrero, in another event had presented the team that will work on the dismantling of drug points in Baní. On numerous occasions, Guerrero had said that it was vox populi where these drug sales points were located. General Then said that the operation against drug trafficking would be named for the late Colonel Daniel Ramos Alvarez. As reported, 18 interventions were made to drug sales point in Baní. These were located in the barrios of El Maní, Los Cajuilitos, Santa Rosa and Calle 5, in Pueblo Nuevo. Many of these have been demolished. As reported, they were operated by persons only identified as “Inkita”, “El Pesao” and “El Canalla” that have not been detained. Yet, the Police reported the confiscating of four dogs that were used by the vendors to ensure that drug control agents did not get near to the sales points.
Meanwhile, Dican reported the arrest of 10 persons in operations carried out to combat micro-trafficking in San Juan de la Maguana and Azua, in the southwest.
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4 February 2019
