{"id":132495,"date":"2019-10-29T12:54:29","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T12:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ny1.dr1.com.do\/wordpress\/?p=132495"},"modified":"2019-10-30T12:00:21","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T12:00:21","slug":"head-of-drug-gang-is-aged-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/10\/29\/head-of-drug-gang-is-aged-77\/","title":{"rendered":"Head of drug gang is aged 77"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/77-years-old-arrested-El-Dia.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-132561\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Agents from the National Drug Control Agency (DNCD) arrested three men with 111 kilos of cocaine they were carrying in secret compartments in a SUV and a truck. The head of the gang was identified as 77-year-old Fernando Rafael Pe\u00f1a Pichardo. Pe\u00f1a Pichardo was stopped on the Duarte Highway in front of the Metropolitan Hospital of Santiago (HOMS). Also arrested were Wimber Caminero Sabino and Johan Alberto Rodr\u00edguez Mej\u00eda who were also arrested. They were travelling from Santo Domingo, and had been trailed by the authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The DNCD said that 75 of the packages were in the Ford truck and 25 in the Dodge SUV. The drugs were sent to the National Institute of Forensic Science (INACIF) in Santiago, where they tested positive for cocaine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/eldia.com.do\/dncd-acusa-hombre-de-77-anos-de-encabezar-red-a-la-que-ocupo-111-kilos-cocaina\/\">El Dia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>29 October 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agents from the National Drug Control Agency (DNCD) arrested three men with 111 kilos of cocaine they were carrying in secret compartments in a SUV and a truck. The head of the gang was identified as 77-year-old Fernando Rafael Pe\u00f1a Pichardo. Pe\u00f1a Pichardo was stopped on the Duarte Highway in front of the Metropolitan Hospital &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/10\/29\/head-of-drug-gang-is-aged-77\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[154,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132495"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132495"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132562,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132495\/revisions\/132562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}