Agents from the National Drug Control Agency (DNCD) arrested three men with 111 kilos of cocaine they were carrying in secret compartments in a SUV and a truck. The head of the gang was identified as 77-year-old Fernando Rafael Peña Pichardo. Peña Pichardo was stopped on the Duarte Highway in front of the Metropolitan Hospital of Santiago (HOMS). Also arrested were Wimber Caminero Sabino and Johan Alberto Rodríguez Mejía who were also arrested. They were travelling from Santo Domingo, and had been trailed by the authorities.
The DNCD said that 75 of the packages were in the Ford truck and 25 in the Dodge SUV. The drugs were sent to the National Institute of Forensic Science (INACIF) in Santiago, where they tested positive for cocaine.
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El Dia
29 October 2019