Colombian pilot in custody

[NewsWhore]

A judge in Higuey has sent Colombian Carlos Arturo Gaviria to three months preventive custody for bringing 170 kilos of cocaine into the country. Gaviria is said to be the pilot who landed a small plane in the cane fields near Batey Baigua in La Altagracia province. "I am totally innocent," Gaviria told El Caribe reporters as he left the courtroom where he heard the sentence from Judge Jose Ramon Perez Bonilla. Gaviria was arrested last Saturday by an army sergeant and two members of the J-2, Army Intelligence, since there is a small army detachment at the Batey Baigua. Defense lawyer Jaime Santana said that nothing incriminating had been found on the Colombian and that he had fled to the Dominican Republic in the aircraft because he was afraid of being kidnapped. He did not explain why his client had chosen to land on a cane field instead of at the nearby La Romana or Punta Cana international airports.

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