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12-09-2011, 10:50 AM
The National Drug Control Department (DNCD) is denying reports that the arrest of a suspected drug trafficker at Las Americas International Airport was headed by United States DEA agents and Major General Rolando Rosado Mateo, who has been out of the country for the last week.
It also denies that the operation in which Cuban-Venezuelan national Luis Ramon Fernandez was not coordinated with the country's security agencies, as reported in some media, but that all agencies were informed of the case. Fernandez is being held at the Central Armed Forces Hospital while he expels the drugs from his body. DNCD spokesman Roberto Lebron said, nonetheless, that an investigation has been launched in order to establish whether any irregularities had taken place. He maintained that "it is not true that the DEA took part in this arrest, because its members are not authorized to carry out this kind of activity on Dominican territory".
He said that Fernandez, who is registered as living in San Pedro de Macoris, has a background in drug trafficking and was sentenced for five years in 2004 for possession of more than 800 grams of heroin, but only served two years of his term. Since then, according to Lebron, "he went in and out of the country once or twice a month". He has been under DNCD surveillance for several months, and is trying to locate the other members of his network.
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It also denies that the operation in which Cuban-Venezuelan national Luis Ramon Fernandez was not coordinated with the country's security agencies, as reported in some media, but that all agencies were informed of the case. Fernandez is being held at the Central Armed Forces Hospital while he expels the drugs from his body. DNCD spokesman Roberto Lebron said, nonetheless, that an investigation has been launched in order to establish whether any irregularities had taken place. He maintained that "it is not true that the DEA took part in this arrest, because its members are not authorized to carry out this kind of activity on Dominican territory".
He said that Fernandez, who is registered as living in San Pedro de Macoris, has a background in drug trafficking and was sentenced for five years in 2004 for possession of more than 800 grams of heroin, but only served two years of his term. Since then, according to Lebron, "he went in and out of the country once or twice a month". He has been under DNCD surveillance for several months, and is trying to locate the other members of his network.
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