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05-28-2010, 04:20 PM
The National Drug Control Department (DNCD) has confirmed that there have been irregularities involving a plane that originated in the DR and abandoned in Honduras. Nevertheless, the DNCD says the drugs that the airplane is suspected of having transported were not loaded here.
DNCD reported that one of the "passengers" on the Beechcraft airplane, N308RH, found on 23 May to the south of the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa, is a Dominican pilot whose license had been cancelled. His name is Miguel Antonio Rosa Urena, also known as "El Gato".
The DNCD spokesman said that investigations showed that the plane still had all its seats when it left Puerto Plata. When it was found in Honduras, the airplane did not have any seats and containers for 9 gallons of fuel.
DNCD spokesman Ramon Alcides Rodriguez said the plane belongs to a United States company, CSSI, based in Conway, Arkansas.
Rosa departed from Gregorio Luperon International Airport (POP) using the fake identity Mike Rosa, according to Diario Libre, quoting the Dominican Civil Aviation Institute (IDAC). Despite being a known drug dealer, Rosa was able to maintain his license to fly until last 24 February 2010 when it was cancelled.
The DNCD has accused him of "illicit activities related to drug trafficking". Besides that, he has a rap sheet that dates back to 1986 when he was caught with 186 kilograms of pure cocaine.
Rosa is the owner of two personal identification and voter registration cards known as cedulas.
DNCD head Rolando Rosado Mateo, IDAC General Security Supervisor Cesar Cotes Jorge and the DNCD spokesman stated at a press conference that the pilot of the plane was Bahamian David Nathen, who had filed two flight-plans. The first flight plan was from Santiago to Puerto Plata. He picked up Miguel Rosa and a Venezuelan, Alirio Enrique Ocando Camarillo, as passengers at Puerto Plata's Gregorio Luperon Airport. The second flight plan involved a flight from Puerto Plata to the Josefa Camejo Airport in the state of Falcon, Venezuela. Rosado Mateo said that the "the flight from Santiago to Puerto Plata apparently intended to avoid the DNCD and IDAC controls".
Once in the air, "the aircraft notified flight controllers of a change of the flight plan from Josefa Camejo Airport to the airport at Maiquetia and immediately turned off all communications", said the general. "Later we were informed that the last time that they (air traffic controllers in Venezuela) had news of the aircraft is when it was flying low between Venezuela and Colombia", said Rosado Mateo.
The DNCD head suspects that the aircraft landed in the border area between Venezuela and Colombia where the seats are suspect to have been removed and the drugs loaded on board.
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DNCD reported that one of the "passengers" on the Beechcraft airplane, N308RH, found on 23 May to the south of the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa, is a Dominican pilot whose license had been cancelled. His name is Miguel Antonio Rosa Urena, also known as "El Gato".
The DNCD spokesman said that investigations showed that the plane still had all its seats when it left Puerto Plata. When it was found in Honduras, the airplane did not have any seats and containers for 9 gallons of fuel.
DNCD spokesman Ramon Alcides Rodriguez said the plane belongs to a United States company, CSSI, based in Conway, Arkansas.
Rosa departed from Gregorio Luperon International Airport (POP) using the fake identity Mike Rosa, according to Diario Libre, quoting the Dominican Civil Aviation Institute (IDAC). Despite being a known drug dealer, Rosa was able to maintain his license to fly until last 24 February 2010 when it was cancelled.
The DNCD has accused him of "illicit activities related to drug trafficking". Besides that, he has a rap sheet that dates back to 1986 when he was caught with 186 kilograms of pure cocaine.
Rosa is the owner of two personal identification and voter registration cards known as cedulas.
DNCD head Rolando Rosado Mateo, IDAC General Security Supervisor Cesar Cotes Jorge and the DNCD spokesman stated at a press conference that the pilot of the plane was Bahamian David Nathen, who had filed two flight-plans. The first flight plan was from Santiago to Puerto Plata. He picked up Miguel Rosa and a Venezuelan, Alirio Enrique Ocando Camarillo, as passengers at Puerto Plata's Gregorio Luperon Airport. The second flight plan involved a flight from Puerto Plata to the Josefa Camejo Airport in the state of Falcon, Venezuela. Rosado Mateo said that the "the flight from Santiago to Puerto Plata apparently intended to avoid the DNCD and IDAC controls".
Once in the air, "the aircraft notified flight controllers of a change of the flight plan from Josefa Camejo Airport to the airport at Maiquetia and immediately turned off all communications", said the general. "Later we were informed that the last time that they (air traffic controllers in Venezuela) had news of the aircraft is when it was flying low between Venezuela and Colombia", said Rosado Mateo.
The DNCD head suspects that the aircraft landed in the border area between Venezuela and Colombia where the seats are suspect to have been removed and the drugs loaded on board.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#7)