The National Drug Control Agency (DNCD) announced the seizing of 1,613 packages of presumed cocaine (1.6 tons) in two interdiction operations carried out in the province of Peravia on the southern coastline during the Easter Week holiday.
In the first operation, which began in the morning hours of Tuesday, 12 April and concluded in the afternoon hours, the DNCD agents and members of the Armada mounted surveillance in the Quijada Quieta community of the municipality of Matanzas, of the referred province, after receiving intelligence reports on a drug operation. Four men were arrested. Others got away. 21 sacks containing 833 packages of a substance suspect to be cocaine were seized.
In a second operation that began on Tuesday night (12 April 2022) and ended early Wednesday (13 April) morning, the authorities seized another 780 packages, presumably cocaine, in a maritime interdiction operation off the coast of the municipality Bani, Peravia province.
The DNCD and the Armada acted after receiving an alert that the occupants of a speedboat were trying to introduce a significant amount of drugs into Dominican territory. Hours later, the authorities intercepted the 32 feet long boat, apprehended five Dominican men and two Colombians and seized 26 sacks containing 780 packages of the white powder.
The 1,613 packages seized in the two raids were sent to the National Institute of Forensic Sciences (INACIF) to determine the exact type and weight of the substance.
In the first two weeks of April 2022, almost four tons of cocaine have been seized in the country, while a little more than seven tons have been confiscated in the first three months of the year.
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Diario Libre
18 April 2022