DNCD delivers to the DEA the Colombians arrested on the high seas

SD. Four Colombians arrested last week on the high seas in a fast boat with 1000 packages of cocaine were transferred to San Juan, Puerto Rico in an airplane from the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), which received the prisoners from the officers of the DNCD, according to information from the National Directorate for Drug Control (DNCD). They were placed on board the aircraft with tail number N-4982 R, belonging to the DEA, the agency that immediately took charge of the four men.

The foreigners were taken off a United States Coast Guard cutter that docked at the 27 February Naval Base in Sans Souci, and taken to the San Isidro Air Base, where they were met by the airplane. The men were Aluchom Castro, Arechelleo Bocaleo, Ruben Bucaria and Micton Sretellea, according to an official press release from the DNCD's Roberto Lebron.

Without going into details, Lebron said that " they coordinated the details with the DEA agents assigned to the agency's office in Santo Domingo, with the highest Navy and Air Force commanders" in order to receive the four Colombians arrested on 20 August during a joint operation 20 miles off the Dominican coast.

"They were received by personnel from the DNCD, led by Colonel Melido Juan Barrio Marte and transferred to the aircraft that was waiting for them to take them to San Juan, Puerto Rico, where a Court will try them for international drug trafficking," said Lebron in a communiqué issue in the name of Major General Rolando Rosado Mateo, the commander of the DNCD,