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03-31-2009, 05:20 PM
The National Department for Drug Control (DNCD) has arrested two more Puerto Rican drug traffickers who were hiding in the Dominican Republic. The two men, Aureliano Giraud Piniero and/or Maximo Aurelio Hernandez Piniero and/or Eusebio Piniero Prats, aka "Jun", and Carlos Caceres Cubero and/or Carlos A. Perez Pacheco, were both caught in Juan Dolio, a tourist area east of Santo Domingo yesterday. Agents from the Migration department, the Police Intelligence Unit and the DNCD collaborated in the arrests. The two men are accused of involvement in the transfer of 10,000 kilos of cocaine to the United States from Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela and the Virgin Islands, an operation that is said to have earned them US$70 million. According to the anti-drug chief, General Gilberto Delgado Valdez, "The US authorities are looking to seize this amount which is suspected of having been invested in properties and a large part put in banks." The two were fleeing from prosecution that began on 16 December 2003. They will be handed over to the Puerto Rico authorities and are due to face a Federal Grand Jury on charges of conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute heroin and cocaine. Both men are on the US Ten Most Wanted list.
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