After four bullets for a 380-caliber pistol were detected in a Laser flight from Caracas, Venezuela, passengers who got off the plane at Las Americas International Airport were re-inspected before they were able to board connecting flights to Miami, Florida on Friday, 5 July 2019.
The director of the Specialized Airport and Civil Aviation Security Corps (Cesac), Brigade General Aracelis Castillo de la Cruz said that no other ammunition was found, but the inspection caused about a one-and-a-half-hour-long delay and affected some 800 passengers. The passengers were booked to board JetBlue flight to New York, Spirit flights to Fort Lauderdale, and Blue Panorama to Antigua & Barbuda.
A large number of Venezuelans connect in Santo Domingo when traveling to the United States after non-stop flights from Venezuela to the US were discontinued.
The ammunitions were discovered around 5pm on Saturday, but the authorities as of Sunday, 7 July had not reported if any person is under arrest.
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El Nacional
8 July 2019