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02-12-2007, 05:00 PM
Interior and Police Minister Franklin Almeyda called the Attorney General "imprudent" after the latter placed Puerto Plata on "Red Alert" following a series of violent crimes. The minister said that what Attorney General Radhames Jimenez had called an alert for the north coast "doesn't make sense." Almeyda made these comments in Santiago during an event celebrating the renewed Barrio Segura program started by the government last year. Almeyda was unequivocal in telling reporters from Hoy that "...there is no crime wave in Puerto Plata, much less the need to declare a red alert, and (what Jimenez did) doesn't make sense."
Hotel owners have also been critical of the alert, and the National Police announced that they had solved "all of the cases in Puerto Plata." According to Listin Diario, Major General Bernardo Santana Paez said that several dozen people had been charged for the most recent crimes committed in Puerto Plata and Santiago.
Meanwhile, Diario Libre says that a recent National Drug Control Department report indicates that a considerable number of foreigners are heading drug sales points and mini-cartels in Puerto Plata province. The foreigners mentioned are mainly Russian, German and Colombian nationals. The DNCD has intensified its efforts to reduce drug trafficking in the north coast, and has said it would soon be moving on to points in the east and south coasts.
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Hotel owners have also been critical of the alert, and the National Police announced that they had solved "all of the cases in Puerto Plata." According to Listin Diario, Major General Bernardo Santana Paez said that several dozen people had been charged for the most recent crimes committed in Puerto Plata and Santiago.
Meanwhile, Diario Libre says that a recent National Drug Control Department report indicates that a considerable number of foreigners are heading drug sales points and mini-cartels in Puerto Plata province. The foreigners mentioned are mainly Russian, German and Colombian nationals. The DNCD has intensified its efforts to reduce drug trafficking in the north coast, and has said it would soon be moving on to points in the east and south coasts.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#14)