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01-25-2011, 06:30 PM
National Drug Control Department (DNCD) spokesman Colonel Ramon Alcides Rodriguez Veras revealed yesterday that a network of officers and enlisted men arrested for a haul of 145 kilograms seized on 2 December 2010, had intended to replace Jose David Figueroa Agosto's drug trafficking network. The officers were arrested during their first attempt to send a shipment to Puerto Rico in a small plane whose pilots are now in jail at the Najayo Prison.
According to Diario Libre, the drugs were securely placed in the ceiling and sides of the aircraft. Rodriguez Veras said that the group had planned to use the Dominican Republic as a bridge because is its proximity to the United States and Puerto Rico. He said that the group of officers and enlisted men tried to form an association to carry out drug operations, "but intelligence work by officers of the DNCD prevented their aims from being fulfilled".
The group that planned, according to the DNCD spokesman, to fill the gap left by the Figueroa Agosto network, is headed by Dominican Air Force (FAD) Lieutenant Colonel Efren Varela Sosa, Army (EN) First Lieutenants Danilo Ginebra Simone and Carmelo Laureano Contreras, as well as Second Lieutenants Biolenny Lopez Perez and Wilfredo A. Lopez Segura, also of the FAD, according to statements by DNCD chief Major General Rolando Rosado Mateo. These officers were members of a network that tried to send a consignment of 145 kilograms of cocaine and over 2 kilograms of heroin to Puerto Rico on 2 December 2010 in an airplane piloted by two Americans, Kevin Henson Kuranz and Christopher Schmidt, both of whom are in jail at Najayo.
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According to Diario Libre, the drugs were securely placed in the ceiling and sides of the aircraft. Rodriguez Veras said that the group had planned to use the Dominican Republic as a bridge because is its proximity to the United States and Puerto Rico. He said that the group of officers and enlisted men tried to form an association to carry out drug operations, "but intelligence work by officers of the DNCD prevented their aims from being fulfilled".
The group that planned, according to the DNCD spokesman, to fill the gap left by the Figueroa Agosto network, is headed by Dominican Air Force (FAD) Lieutenant Colonel Efren Varela Sosa, Army (EN) First Lieutenants Danilo Ginebra Simone and Carmelo Laureano Contreras, as well as Second Lieutenants Biolenny Lopez Perez and Wilfredo A. Lopez Segura, also of the FAD, according to statements by DNCD chief Major General Rolando Rosado Mateo. These officers were members of a network that tried to send a consignment of 145 kilograms of cocaine and over 2 kilograms of heroin to Puerto Rico on 2 December 2010 in an airplane piloted by two Americans, Kevin Henson Kuranz and Christopher Schmidt, both of whom are in jail at Najayo.
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