NewsWhore
08-09-2010, 02:30 PM
So far this year, the National Drug Control Department has arrested 49 people for transporting cocaine to Europe on or inside their bodies. Some 254 kilos of drugs have been confiscated, including 186.5 kilos of cocaine, 14,722.3 grams of heroin, 4,055 of ecstasy and 54.2 kilos of other controlled substances.
"The US is no longer the mules' main destination, Europe has replaced it," the DNCD's Ramon Alceides Rodriguez Veras told Diario Libre.
He said that mules are no longer only impoverished Dominicans. This year, the DNCD has arrested three Canadians, three French citizens, three Peruvians, two Colombians, two Spaniards, two Puerto Ricans and two Venezuelans. The traffickers hope to confuse the authorities by using foreigners who come to spend a few days at the hotels, posing as normal tourists, and then leave transporting drugs, said Rodriguez Veras.
He said they have confiscated more drugs at airports in 2010 than in previous years.
Rodriguez Veras said that of the mules, 34 were men and 15 were women. Of these, 22 hid the drugs in their stomach, 13 concealed them in suitcases, four inside their shoes, three in squash, two adhered to the body, two in underwear, and other methods.
The airports used were Punta Cana 5, Las Americas 26, Cibao 8, La Romana 3, and Puerto Plata 7.
DNCD says it has confiscated 7,621 kilos of drugs, including 964.5 of cocaine and 1,614.9 of marijuana from 17 August 2009 to date.
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"The US is no longer the mules' main destination, Europe has replaced it," the DNCD's Ramon Alceides Rodriguez Veras told Diario Libre.
He said that mules are no longer only impoverished Dominicans. This year, the DNCD has arrested three Canadians, three French citizens, three Peruvians, two Colombians, two Spaniards, two Puerto Ricans and two Venezuelans. The traffickers hope to confuse the authorities by using foreigners who come to spend a few days at the hotels, posing as normal tourists, and then leave transporting drugs, said Rodriguez Veras.
He said they have confiscated more drugs at airports in 2010 than in previous years.
Rodriguez Veras said that of the mules, 34 were men and 15 were women. Of these, 22 hid the drugs in their stomach, 13 concealed them in suitcases, four inside their shoes, three in squash, two adhered to the body, two in underwear, and other methods.
The airports used were Punta Cana 5, Las Americas 26, Cibao 8, La Romana 3, and Puerto Plata 7.
DNCD says it has confiscated 7,621 kilos of drugs, including 964.5 of cocaine and 1,614.9 of marijuana from 17 August 2009 to date.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#10)