NewsWhore
06-15-2011, 03:30 PM
Northern Mexican drug cartels have turned the Atlantic coast of the Dominican Republic into an air operations center for the Colombian and Peruvian drug cartels, after abandoning the so-called Central American Corridor, as reported in El Caribe.
The US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) estimates that between February and May this year the Mexican and South American cartels moved large shipments through the Dominican Republic towards the continental United States. According to the El Caribe report, the DEA is saying that members of the Sinaloa, Mexicali and Nuevo Leon cartels contacted Italian capos in Puerto Plata and created the operational and logistical "Cibao Cartel." The members of this new cartel operated mostly in San Francisco de Macoris, Samana, Sosua, Cabarete and Santiago, from where the group has withdrawn because of the actions of the drug agencies.
The news report reads like a spy or detective story, capped by the arrest of Cristian Robinson Nunez Almonte at Santiago International Airport with US$307,000 in cash in his possession. This arrest triggered searches along the north coast for the rest of the drug trafficking ring, and several people were detained as suspects in Sosua and Cabarete yesterday. When he was interrogated, Robinson Nunez said that the money that he had was to be used to pay for the logistics of moving drugs dropped off in Dominican territory to Mexico by fast boats and yachts.
The operational "routes" used by the South Americans include drug drops on the high seas between Samana and Puerto Plata that are then picked up for delivery by boats to Mexico.
Recently the DNCD seized 195 kilos of cocaine in Jarabacoa that was part of a drug drop that took place in Cabarete on 7 March.
Later on, at Los Cocos Beach in Samana, the authorities seized 115 kilos, and just recently, 300 kilos of drugs were seized in Samana Bay. The main suspect in that most recent case, Fausto Ramirez, was freed on bail just this week.
According to the drug agencies, this new route is the result of two factors: the successful use of the Super Tucano airplanes recently purchased from Brazil and the tightening of controls along the Central American Corridor.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#8)
The US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) estimates that between February and May this year the Mexican and South American cartels moved large shipments through the Dominican Republic towards the continental United States. According to the El Caribe report, the DEA is saying that members of the Sinaloa, Mexicali and Nuevo Leon cartels contacted Italian capos in Puerto Plata and created the operational and logistical "Cibao Cartel." The members of this new cartel operated mostly in San Francisco de Macoris, Samana, Sosua, Cabarete and Santiago, from where the group has withdrawn because of the actions of the drug agencies.
The news report reads like a spy or detective story, capped by the arrest of Cristian Robinson Nunez Almonte at Santiago International Airport with US$307,000 in cash in his possession. This arrest triggered searches along the north coast for the rest of the drug trafficking ring, and several people were detained as suspects in Sosua and Cabarete yesterday. When he was interrogated, Robinson Nunez said that the money that he had was to be used to pay for the logistics of moving drugs dropped off in Dominican territory to Mexico by fast boats and yachts.
The operational "routes" used by the South Americans include drug drops on the high seas between Samana and Puerto Plata that are then picked up for delivery by boats to Mexico.
Recently the DNCD seized 195 kilos of cocaine in Jarabacoa that was part of a drug drop that took place in Cabarete on 7 March.
Later on, at Los Cocos Beach in Samana, the authorities seized 115 kilos, and just recently, 300 kilos of drugs were seized in Samana Bay. The main suspect in that most recent case, Fausto Ramirez, was freed on bail just this week.
According to the drug agencies, this new route is the result of two factors: the successful use of the Super Tucano airplanes recently purchased from Brazil and the tightening of controls along the Central American Corridor.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#8)