Once again pilots and passengers leave the DR with fake IDs
A pilot with a cancelled license boarded the plane as a "passenger" in POP
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SANTO DOMINGO. The National Drug Control agency (DNCD) reported that one of the "passengers" on the Beechcraft airplane, N308RH, found on 23 May to the south of Tegucibalpa, Honduras, is a pilot with his license cancelled. His name is Miguel Antonio Rosa Ureña, also known as "El Gato".
In spite of the escape of Rosa Ureña, the DNCD emphasized that the drugs did not come from this country."When the flight left here, it was not loaded and had all of its seats. When it was found, in Honduras, the airplane did not have any seats and only 9 gallons of fuel", according to the new DNCD spokesperson Ramon Alcides Rodriguez.
Rosa got on board the aircraft that belongs to the United States company CSSI, out of Conway, Arkansas, as a passenger at the Gregorio Luperon International Airport. Rosa Ureña went on board the plane under the fake identity of "Mike Rosa". He is identified by the DNCD as a "drug-pilot".
The Dominican Civil Aviation Institute (IDAC) cancelled his license to fly last 24 February. He is the owner of two of the personal identification and voter registration cards known as "cédulas": Numbers 031-0442567 and 031-281657-0. The DNCD has accused him of "illicit activities related with drug trafficking". Besides that, he has a rap sheet that dates back to 1986 when he was caught with 186 kilograms of pure cocaine.
The operation
El jefe de la DNCD, Rolando Rosado Mateo, the General Supervisor of Security for IDAC, Cesar Cotes Jorge, and the spokesperson for the DNCD, stated at a press conference that the Bahamian pilot David Nathen, filed two flight plans.
The first flight plan was from Santiago to Puerto Plata. Once at the Puerto Plata's Gregorio Luperon Airport, he picked up Miguel Rosa and the Venezuelan, Alirio Enrique Ocando Camarillo, as passengers.
The second flight plan called for a flight from Puerto Plata to the Josefa Camejo Airport in the state of Falcon, Venezuela.
Rosado Mateo said that the "intention of the flight from Santiago to Puerto Plata was to avoid the controls of the DNCD and IDAC".
Once in the air, "the aircraft notified flight controllers of a change of the flight plan from the Josefa Camejo Airport to the airport at Maiquetía and immediately turned off all communications", said the general.
"Later we were informed that the last time that they (air controllers in Venezuela) had news of the aircraft is when it was flying low between Venezuela and Colombia", explained Rosado Mateo. "Before this, the Venezuelan authorities had communicated with Curaçao".
The head of the DNCD expressed his opinion that the aircraft landed in the frontier area between Venezuela and Colombia where the seats were taken out and the drugs were loaded on board.
Drugs are discarded
"We want to make it clear that all of the controls of the DNCD and the IDAC were applied in Dominican territory. Because of this, we can discard the idea that this flight took off with drugs from Dominican airspace", said the head of the DNCD. He added that "once the aircraft was in the frontier area, the (Venezuelan) authorities indicated that it could have taken part in activities tied to drug trafficking".
In spite of the escape of Rosa Ureña, the DNCD emphasized that the drugs did not come from this country."When the flight left here, it was not loaded and had all of its seats. When it was found, in Honduras, the airplane did not have any seats and only 9 gallons of fuel", according to the new DNCD spokesperson Ramon Alcides Rodriguez.
Rosa got on board the aircraft that belongs to the United States company CSSI, out of Conway, Arkansas, as a passenger at the Gregorio Luperon International Airport. Rosa Ureña went on board the plane under the fake identity of "Mike Rosa". He is identified by the DNCD as a "drug-pilot".
The Dominican Civil Aviation Institute (IDAC) cancelled his license to fly last 24 February. He is the owner of two of the personal identification and voter registration cards known as "cédulas": Numbers 031-0442567 and 031-281657-0. The DNCD has accused him of "illicit activities related with drug trafficking". Besides that, he has a rap sheet that dates back to 1986 when he was caught with 186 kilograms of pure cocaine.
The operation
El jefe de la DNCD, Rolando Rosado Mateo, the General Supervisor of Security for IDAC, Cesar Cotes Jorge, and the spokesperson for the DNCD, stated at a press conference that the Bahamian pilot David Nathen, filed two flight plans.
The first flight plan was from Santiago to Puerto Plata. Once at the Puerto Plata's Gregorio Luperon Airport, he picked up Miguel Rosa and the Venezuelan, Alirio Enrique Ocando Camarillo, as passengers.
The second flight plan called for a flight from Puerto Plata to the Josefa Camejo Airport in the state of Falcon, Venezuela.
Rosado Mateo said that the "intention of the flight from Santiago to Puerto Plata was to avoid the controls of the DNCD and IDAC".
Once in the air, "the aircraft notified flight controllers of a change of the flight plan from the Josefa Camejo Airport to the airport at Maiquetía and immediately turned off all communications", said the general.
"Later we were informed that the last time that they (air controllers in Venezuela) had news of the aircraft is when it was flying low between Venezuela and Colombia", explained Rosado Mateo. "Before this, the Venezuelan authorities had communicated with Curaçao".
The head of the DNCD expressed his opinion that the aircraft landed in the frontier area between Venezuela and Colombia where the seats were taken out and the drugs were loaded on board.
Drugs are discarded
"We want to make it clear that all of the controls of the DNCD and the IDAC were applied in Dominican territory. Because of this, we can discard the idea that this flight took off with drugs from Dominican airspace", said the head of the DNCD. He added that "once the aircraft was in the frontier area, the (Venezuelan) authorities indicated that it could have taken part in activities tied to drug trafficking".
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