NewsWhore
02-20-2012, 11:00 AM
On Sunday February 19 the National Drug Control Agency (DNCD) announced that it had dismantled a counterfeit printing press and confiscated counterfeit dollar bills with a face value of around US$3 million from a house in Mata San Juan near the El Higuero airport in Santo Domingo North.
Two people who were arrested during the raid were taken for questioning by the DNCD. Domestic employee Natividad Gomez and motoconcho driver Luis Morel are believed to have worked for the owners of the printing press until they fled.
DNCD chief Major General Rolando Rosado Mateo said that they had received information that members of a network were using the house to store drugs and that is why they had a search warrant. The search revealed cocaine and heroin as well as the discovery that they were printing large quantities of counterfeit dollars.
The officials in charge of the operation were Colonel Jose Reyes Suarez, Lieutenant Colonel Jose Heredia and Major Victor Mesa, and the Prosecutor was Inedita Ines Perez Fernandez.
The DNCD also announced that it seized 162 packages of cocaine weighing approximately 164 kilos from a boat whose occupants left it abandoned on the beach in Uvero Alto, on the east coast. DNCD spokesman Roberto Lebron said that the confiscation took place as part of a joint operation by the Navy and the US Coastguard.
The occupants, who were heading to Puerto Rico, abandoned the boat together with the drugs when they realized the authorities were on their trail.
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Two people who were arrested during the raid were taken for questioning by the DNCD. Domestic employee Natividad Gomez and motoconcho driver Luis Morel are believed to have worked for the owners of the printing press until they fled.
DNCD chief Major General Rolando Rosado Mateo said that they had received information that members of a network were using the house to store drugs and that is why they had a search warrant. The search revealed cocaine and heroin as well as the discovery that they were printing large quantities of counterfeit dollars.
The officials in charge of the operation were Colonel Jose Reyes Suarez, Lieutenant Colonel Jose Heredia and Major Victor Mesa, and the Prosecutor was Inedita Ines Perez Fernandez.
The DNCD also announced that it seized 162 packages of cocaine weighing approximately 164 kilos from a boat whose occupants left it abandoned on the beach in Uvero Alto, on the east coast. DNCD spokesman Roberto Lebron said that the confiscation took place as part of a joint operation by the Navy and the US Coastguard.
The occupants, who were heading to Puerto Rico, abandoned the boat together with the drugs when they realized the authorities were on their trail.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#8)