A Santo Domingo judge has handed down a year in preventive custody as coercive measures against those accused in the case of the confiscation of the 484 kilos of cocaine at the Caucedo Port and has declared the case to be complex.
The sentence was against the accused men, José Alberto de Jesús, Julio Francisco Hernández Sosa and Hansel Santana Báez.
Officials from the National Drug Control Agency, accompanied by intelligence agents, found the drugs in a container in a ship called Tanya, whose destination was Rotterdam, Holland.
Three men were arrested during the operation after putting the drugs into the container. They tried to escape in a truck but hit a wall without being able to leave the terminal.
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El Dia
27 August 2019