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08-18-2011, 04:50 PM
815 kilos of cocaine were seized yesterday, thwarting a trans-shipment operation to Puerto Rico estimated to be worth around US$25 million, as reported in El Dia. The drugs are said to belong to the Colombian Norte del Valle cartel, made famous by the popular TV series "El cartel de los sapos" (The Cartel of the Toads). Accused in the case are three brothers with criminal records for robbery, drug trafficking, murder and illegal possession of weapons, two Colombians and a Dominican woman. The National Drug Control Agency (DNCD) said it was about to be shipped from Miches to Puerto Rico with the involvement of Colombians, Venezuelans and Puerto Ricans. As reported the operation was being supervised directly by staff from Colombia. Their local contacts were brothers Nelson, Genito and Miguel Toribio Custodia from Samana.
Others arrested in this case are Alberto Miguel Astacio, Ogando Yokasta Valdez and Colombians Jorge Enrique Torres Orlando Torres and Raul Villamil Cubiles.
The drugs were confiscated from a house in Urbanizacion Carolina, Villa Faro, in Santo Domingo Este.
National Drug Control Agency (DNCD) chief Major General Rolando Rosado took part in the operation to confiscate the drugs and make the arrests. The drugs were packed in 26 bags with 30 packets each, 22 of which were found in a closet in the master bedroom, while the remaining four were found in a black SUV Toyota 4Runner, which was confiscated when it was filling up at a gas station. The authorities also seized an Uzi, a gun, bullets, an undisclosed amount in cash, eight cell phones, two radios and a Municipal Police uniform. The house that was raided (said to have been rented two weeks ago) was being used as a warehouse by the detainees, especially by the Toribio Custodio brothers and two Colombians, who the DNCD say had moved to the DR to supervise the movements of the shipments from Colombia and Venezuela.
Deputy Prosecutors Florentino Sanchez and Nelson Beltre Tejada also took part in the operation. DNCD spokesman Roberto Lebron said the drug agency had been on the trail of the gang for seven months, suspecting that it was part of a much larger organized structure of international drug trafficking by Dominicans, Colombians, Venezuelans and Puerto Ricans that received the narcotics from South America.
The DNCD reported that Genito Toribio Custodio is a repeat offender in drug trafficking cases. He appears in the DNCD archives as having been involved with a group that was instructed to close the Santo Domingo-Samana highway near Monte Plata, to receive a drop-off of drugs from an airplane. He is also accused of the murder of Alfonso Zapata Perreaux, in an incident in Samana.
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Others arrested in this case are Alberto Miguel Astacio, Ogando Yokasta Valdez and Colombians Jorge Enrique Torres Orlando Torres and Raul Villamil Cubiles.
The drugs were confiscated from a house in Urbanizacion Carolina, Villa Faro, in Santo Domingo Este.
National Drug Control Agency (DNCD) chief Major General Rolando Rosado took part in the operation to confiscate the drugs and make the arrests. The drugs were packed in 26 bags with 30 packets each, 22 of which were found in a closet in the master bedroom, while the remaining four were found in a black SUV Toyota 4Runner, which was confiscated when it was filling up at a gas station. The authorities also seized an Uzi, a gun, bullets, an undisclosed amount in cash, eight cell phones, two radios and a Municipal Police uniform. The house that was raided (said to have been rented two weeks ago) was being used as a warehouse by the detainees, especially by the Toribio Custodio brothers and two Colombians, who the DNCD say had moved to the DR to supervise the movements of the shipments from Colombia and Venezuela.
Deputy Prosecutors Florentino Sanchez and Nelson Beltre Tejada also took part in the operation. DNCD spokesman Roberto Lebron said the drug agency had been on the trail of the gang for seven months, suspecting that it was part of a much larger organized structure of international drug trafficking by Dominicans, Colombians, Venezuelans and Puerto Ricans that received the narcotics from South America.
The DNCD reported that Genito Toribio Custodio is a repeat offender in drug trafficking cases. He appears in the DNCD archives as having been involved with a group that was instructed to close the Santo Domingo-Samana highway near Monte Plata, to receive a drop-off of drugs from an airplane. He is also accused of the murder of Alfonso Zapata Perreaux, in an incident in Samana.
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