Members of the operative intelligence division of the National Drug Control Department (DNCD) have seized 108 kilos of cocaine inside a vehicle left abandoned at a shopping center parking lot in Santo Domingo. DNCD spokesman Buenaventura Bueno Torres said that the drug was found thanks to the department’s intelligence work, with the assistance of the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) of Newark, New Jersey. Several people have been arrested in connection to the case, but their names were not disclosed. In New Jersey, Dominicans Alex Medrano and Francisco Alvarado were arrested in connection to this case. The vehicle was abandoned at a shopping center on 27 de Febrero Avenue, and presumably was to be collected by other members of the network in an operation that was discovered by the Newark DEA. DNCD director vice admiral Ivan Pena Castillo said the drug was seized after the DEA in Newark informed the local department of the delivery operation.