NewsWhore
02-25-2008, 02:00 PM
Yet another incident has marred the already tense situation along the border near the city of Dajabon. This time, a businessman, Teofilo Reyes de Aza, was seized by alleged drug traffickers while on a business trip to Haiti. According to initial reports, Reyes de Aza, a resident of Villa Gonzalez, was kidnapped while doing business in the northern Haitian city of Cap-Haitien. Family members received telephone calls demanding RD$10 million in ransom money. Sources told El Caribe reporter Arsenio Cruz that it was possible that the kidnapping involved business dealings between the victim and his captors.
While there are conflicting reports in today's press, Diario Libre says that the kidnap victim was rescued after a gun battle along the border. During a joint operation by special units of the Dominican Armed Forces and their Haitian counterparts, two Haitians were captured and identified as the principal members of a drug ring that kidnapped the businessman last Friday. Both Haitians, one of whom was seriously wounded, were captured on the border, as was their accomplice on the Dominican side by units of the Cesfront forces. The prisoners were forced to reveal the whereabouts of Reyes de Aza, who was rescued by Haitian police who had been briefed by the Haitian consul in Dajabon, Jean Baptiste.
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While there are conflicting reports in today's press, Diario Libre says that the kidnap victim was rescued after a gun battle along the border. During a joint operation by special units of the Dominican Armed Forces and their Haitian counterparts, two Haitians were captured and identified as the principal members of a drug ring that kidnapped the businessman last Friday. Both Haitians, one of whom was seriously wounded, were captured on the border, as was their accomplice on the Dominican side by units of the Cesfront forces. The prisoners were forced to reveal the whereabouts of Reyes de Aza, who was rescued by Haitian police who had been briefed by the Haitian consul in Dajabon, Jean Baptiste.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#7)