The U.S. Coast Guard, working in cooperation with the DR’s National Drug-Control Directorate (DNCD) and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), yesterday seized over 1,000 kilos of cocaine. The interdiction was made in Dominican territorial waters as drug traffickers were in the process of transferring the cocaine to speed boats to transport it to Puerto Rico. The drugs were turned over to the DNCD, which intends to burn it. The head of DNCD, General Luis Alberto Humeau Hidalgo, characterized the bust as one of the most important of the DNCD-DEA-Coast Guard joint effort, and proof that the U.S. and DR are determined to stop Colombian cartels from using the DR as a back to enter Puerto Rico and the American market.
