NewsWhore
09-05-2012, 01:00 PM
In a joint operation called "Safe Coasts," which ended yesterday, Tuesday 4 September the Dominican Navy, Air Force, the National Drug Control Department (DNCD) and the United States Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) seized 60 packs containing 1500 "bricks" of cocaine with an approximate weight of 1,530 kilograms (about 3,300 pounds) on the high seas. DNCD spokesman Roberto Lebron released the details of the seizure to the media last night during a press conference at the gate of the Naval Base in Sans Souci, where he showed 23 of the packs and said that the other 37 were on board a US Coast Guard cutter.
The operation started at midnight last Tuesday and ended at noon yesterday. The cocaine was being moved in three speed launches coming from South America, and the crews threw them overboard when they saw that they had been spotted some 50 or 60 miles south of Saona Island, and escaped. Lebron was accompanied by DNCD chief Major General Rolando Rosado Mateo, the chief of staff of the Navy, Admiral Edwin Rafael Dominici Rosario and the head of the DEA in the DR, John Niedzialek, who led the operation.
http://www.diariolibre.com/dlenglish/2012/09/05/i350748_more-than-ton-and-half-cocaine-seized-the-high-seas.html
http://www.dncd.mil.do/index.php/component/content/article/3-newsflash/1650-autoridades-antinarcoticos-ocupan-4807-kilos-de-cocaina-en-los-ultimos-4-meses.html?ea97e10c5f91b275ce8431a1bdaaf84c=f19647adc418f07b454a5b8cab349115
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The operation started at midnight last Tuesday and ended at noon yesterday. The cocaine was being moved in three speed launches coming from South America, and the crews threw them overboard when they saw that they had been spotted some 50 or 60 miles south of Saona Island, and escaped. Lebron was accompanied by DNCD chief Major General Rolando Rosado Mateo, the chief of staff of the Navy, Admiral Edwin Rafael Dominici Rosario and the head of the DEA in the DR, John Niedzialek, who led the operation.
http://www.diariolibre.com/dlenglish/2012/09/05/i350748_more-than-ton-and-half-cocaine-seized-the-high-seas.html
http://www.dncd.mil.do/index.php/component/content/article/3-newsflash/1650-autoridades-antinarcoticos-ocupan-4807-kilos-de-cocaina-en-los-ultimos-4-meses.html?ea97e10c5f91b275ce8431a1bdaaf84c=f19647adc418f07b454a5b8cab349115
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#9)