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09-04-2009, 06:20 PM
The National Department for Drug Control (DNCD) dismantled yesterday afternoon a plantation of marijuana that was said to contain 10,000 plants. The plants were found in a community near El Cercado in the province of San Juan de la Maguana.
In Azua, agents seized 15 packages of cocaine during an incident in which a man who attacked the agents resulted with a gunshot wound.
General Rolando Rosario Mateo, the head of the DNCD said the three arrests were made in El Cercado.
According to the general, the marijuana crop was being cultivated by Rafael Rodriguez Rodriguez, who was known as "Sin Nombre" (No Name) and who voluntarily took members of the DNCD to the side of a high hill where he had the plantation. He was arrested on Wednesday afternoon during a search of his home where 16 pounds of marijuana were found. His son, identified as Martin Rodriguez Montero, managed to escape and according to his father was the person in charge of harvesting the marijuana for later sale in San Juan de la Maguana and Santo Domingo through contacts that the DNCD are trying to capture and send to trial.
The DNCD has seized more than 100 pounds of marijuana over the past few months in the area of El Cercado and Hondo Valle, a crop that is cultivated in the hills near the community of Juan Santiago.
Rodriguez Montero is also a fugitive involved in two other cases of marijuana trafficking, although the crop seized yesterday was being grown in an area known as "La Vereda".
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In Azua, agents seized 15 packages of cocaine during an incident in which a man who attacked the agents resulted with a gunshot wound.
General Rolando Rosario Mateo, the head of the DNCD said the three arrests were made in El Cercado.
According to the general, the marijuana crop was being cultivated by Rafael Rodriguez Rodriguez, who was known as "Sin Nombre" (No Name) and who voluntarily took members of the DNCD to the side of a high hill where he had the plantation. He was arrested on Wednesday afternoon during a search of his home where 16 pounds of marijuana were found. His son, identified as Martin Rodriguez Montero, managed to escape and according to his father was the person in charge of harvesting the marijuana for later sale in San Juan de la Maguana and Santo Domingo through contacts that the DNCD are trying to capture and send to trial.
The DNCD has seized more than 100 pounds of marijuana over the past few months in the area of El Cercado and Hondo Valle, a crop that is cultivated in the hills near the community of Juan Santiago.
Rodriguez Montero is also a fugitive involved in two other cases of marijuana trafficking, although the crop seized yesterday was being grown in an area known as "La Vereda".
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#10)