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12-23-2008, 03:00 PM
Peravia Senator Wilton Guerrero says that organized crime rings are behind people smuggling and the transport of drugs and cash using private flights and charters. As reported in Diario Libre, Guerrero commented on the disappearance of a private flight with 12 people on board that took off from Santiago airport after filing a private flight plan to Bahamas. Reportedly, the pilot, Adrian Jimenez only had a valid US student license after his Dominican license had been cancelled. "That was not a casual or spontaneous flight, or the first flight, as the authorities have tried to make it seem," he told Diario Libre. "That trip was organized by a criminal organization that smuggles deportees and drugs, and transports arms and dollars to the country, and the authorities are aware," he stated. Guerrero said that the same organization had tried to take Mayobanex Rodriguez Montero, accused of carrying out the Paya killings, out of the country.
Guerrero also told Hoy that two of the passengers who were on the flight piloted by Jimenez were on the list of suspects in the Paya murder case. Two others died in a traffic accident near Bonao. In a related news story, the National Police said it has arrested "Guancho", one of four people suspected of organizing the illegal trip to the United States on board an Atlantic Aviation plane with the registry number N650LP. The airplane and its occupants are missing. The plane piloted by Adrian Jimenez departed on Monday, 16 December and made a stopover in the Turks and Caicos before continuing its flight, disappearing without a trace shortly after. As reported in Diario Libre, one of the investigators said that this case could involve a people-smuggling ring into Miami, using the Bahamas as stepping point.
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Guerrero also told Hoy that two of the passengers who were on the flight piloted by Jimenez were on the list of suspects in the Paya murder case. Two others died in a traffic accident near Bonao. In a related news story, the National Police said it has arrested "Guancho", one of four people suspected of organizing the illegal trip to the United States on board an Atlantic Aviation plane with the registry number N650LP. The airplane and its occupants are missing. The plane piloted by Adrian Jimenez departed on Monday, 16 December and made a stopover in the Turks and Caicos before continuing its flight, disappearing without a trace shortly after. As reported in Diario Libre, one of the investigators said that this case could involve a people-smuggling ring into Miami, using the Bahamas as stepping point.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#11)