2005News

Cocaine seized, three arrested

The National Drug Control Department (DNCD) has reported the seizure of 91 packs of cocaine, with a total weight of 101 kilos, in the Los Rios area of the National District. Diario Libre reports that three people were arrested. DNCD spokesman Buenaventura Bueno Torres identified the detainees as Gilberto Josadac Acosta Gil, 25, Ariel Rafael Luciano Montesino, 26, and Valentin Toribio Cespedes, 40. He said that the DNCD members who took part in the operation were accompanied by a special agent of the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and an assistant District Attorney, appointed to the department. The 91 packs of cocaine were inside a container that was intercepted at 8:35 pm on Wednesday in a lot on Los Proceres Avenue. According to the spokesman for Vice Admiral Ivan Pena Castillo, general director of the DNCD, the operation was the result of intensive intelligence work that took place over several weeks.