More than a ton and a half of cocaine seized on the high seas
Diario Libre
SANTO DOMINGO. In a joint operation called "Safe Coasts," the Dominican Navy, Air Force, the National Directorate for Drug Control and the Drug Enforcement Agency of the United States (DEA) seized yesterday on the high seas 60 packs containing 1500 "bricks" of cocaine with an approximate weight of 1,530 kilograms (about 3,300 pounds).
The details of the seizure were offered to the media last night by the spokesman of the DNCD, Roberto Lebron, 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 fast launches coming from South America, and the crews threw them overboard when they say that they had been spotted some 50 or 60 miles south of Saona Island, and escaped.
Accompanying Lebron was the commander of the DNCD, 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.
The details of the seizure were offered to the media last night by the spokesman of the DNCD, Roberto Lebron, 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 fast launches coming from South America, and the crews threw them overboard when they say that they had been spotted some 50 or 60 miles south of Saona Island, and escaped.
Accompanying Lebron was the commander of the DNCD, 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.
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