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09-29-2009, 05:30 PM
The National Drug Control Department (DNCD) has reported the arrest of Luis Santacruz Echeverri, known to have direct ties with the once-powerful Cali Cartel in Colombia. The Colombian national was detained in Santo Domingo and will be deported to the United States with immediate effect following an official request from the US authorities. Santacruz, also known as Lucho, is the half-brother of the late Jose Santacruz Londono, one of the Cartel's most powerful bosses, who was gunned down during a shootout with police in 1996. Hoy reports that Santacruz was responsible for the activities of a network of traffickers that received air shipments of drugs in the southern and northeastern DR. According to the newspaper, Santacruz, who had been living in Juan Dolio, was apprehended on the corner of 27 de Febrero and Abraham Lincoln Avenue and.
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