The Ministry of Armed Forces says that in the past five months they have confiscated over 100 guns of different kinds, 150 kilos of narcotics and deported over 60,000 illegal Haitians at the frontier. The Ministry said thousands of quintals of rice, beans, garlic, charcoal, whisky and other merchandise have also been confiscated. The military have been in the press after Haiti Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis denounced a Haitian-Dominican mafia along the frontier that involves Dominican military. He said he had proof that trucks that were forcibly detained at the frontier were those that had not paid the "toll" to the military. The Dominican frontier with Haiti is about 400 kilometers long. The frontier area is the poorest in the Dominican Republic.
