The Dominican Navy (Armada) has announced that yesterday, 15 July, they arrested 74 people on board an illegal boat transporting people to Puerto Rico.
Navy spokesman, Captain Juan Pablo Sandoval Garcia, said that the two Cubans and 72 Haitians were arrested in the area of Bayahibe and Boca de Chavon in La Romana province.
Sandoval Garcia said they were looking for two people known as Machon and Wilson who apparently organized the trip.
Since January this year, the Dominican Navy has confiscated 83 boats and arrested 829 people, including 536 Haitians, 213 Dominicans and 71 Cubans.
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