Many of those accused of drug trafficking have been jailed, but very few have been convicted of a crime. Many judges have allowed them to be free on bail. All of this in spite of the fact that the DNCD (the Dominican DEA) have arrested over 4,000, dismantled networks from Colombia to Holland and seized more than 35,000 kilos of cocaine over the past decade. Many of the accusations have been denied by the courts, alleging lack of proof, and others go from postponement to postponement. Rolando Florian has been in jail for seven years without coming to trial or being convicted of anything. Martin Abreu, murdered, was convicted of moving 400 kilos of cocaine but was never in jail. In Florian’s case, another charge has been added: the ordering of the killing of the son of the Senator from Barahona, Victor Augusto Feliz Matos, from his jail cell. No military person, no governmental official ever involved in any of the cases has been convicted in this country, something that caught the attention of the United States State Department last March. An article in the Washington Post says that nearly 50% of all drug traffickers caught are from the Dominican Republic. Perhaps because of the many officials, military, police and governmental, that have been involved in drug related cases, the United States is now going to try and extradite Paulino Castillo