Drug dealers worked in public

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Revelations of complicity between the police and members of the National Department of Drug Control (DNCD) with the heads of the main drug gangs in Puerto Plata enabled the dealers to operate in public places, according to a report from a commission that investigated 31 cops in Puerto Plata who were arrested but later controversially released by a Puerto Plata judge. The document indicates that the drug points were visited by a large number of people, as if it were a drug-consumption "tolerance zone" as exists in some European countries. As part of the investigations that resulted from complaints about the growth of drug trafficking in Puerto Plata, Angel Rafael Almanzar Fernandez, said to be a well-known drug distributor in the region, told investigators that in order to establish a drug distribution point in Puerto Plata one had to "make a down payment' to members of the police investigation units and the DNCD, as well as establishing a weekly sum to be paid to each institution. The amount was in accordance to the volume sold at each point. Almanzar said he could prove that members of the police who were stationed in the region were directly linked to Franklin Hidalgo Batista (Franklin el Gallero), known to be the leader of the Gang of 42, which controls several distribution points for narcotics in the towns of Sosua, Maranatha, Charamicos, La Union and Montellano in Puerto Plata and Espaillat provinces. The report said that they had evidence that the members of the Gang of 40 and the Gang of 42 had major differences over drug distribution points. The Gang of 40 is led by Miguel Ozoria, and the late Julio Cesar Garcia was a member. Because the confrontations between the police and the drug dealers "got everyone in trouble", both groups reached an agreement allegedly so that "everyone could make a living from the drug business," according to the report.
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