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04-02-2009, 06:40 PM
The Collegiate Tribunal of the Neyba Jurisdiction has sentenced pilots Harold and Antonio Manzano Garcia and four others found guilty of transporting cocaine into the country to ten years in prison. Judges Juan Francisco Carvajal, Nicio Antonio Medina Figuereo and Alejandro Montilla Ramirez convicted the Manzano Garcia brothers, one of whom had served a former lieutenant colonel in the Dominican Army, to pay a RD$50,000 fine apiece, as well as the forfeit of their property, including a helicopter. The court also imposed the same sentence on Colombian Oscar Mario Ochoa Montoya who piloted the small plane that landed on the dirt runway at Batey IV. Angel Wilson Adames Pena, Luis Frias Maritnez and Denis Cesarin Sanchez Jimenez were also given the same, ten-year, sentence. According to the case file, the drugs were taken to Barahona in a small plane, and then transferred to a helicopter flown by the Manzano brothers. The plane could not take off from the improvised runway, and the occupants were captured. The men have been in preventive custody since last year. Crime scene investigators found traces of cocaine in the plane.
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