DNCD seizes 950 kg of cocaine and arrests seven
The process started after a party by drug traffickers in the National District
SANTO DOMINGO. After an intense operation which began at 5 o'clock in the morning on the Bani-San Cristobal highway, the National Directorate for Drug Control (DNCD) seized 928 packages of cocaine, which weighed 950 kilograms of the drug.
He said that they identified Luis Ducasse Herrera as the brains of a structure that used the country as a bridge for trafficking drugs from South America.
The persons arrested are Julio Cesar Herrera Marquez, Marcelino Cuevas Feliz, Melvin Perez, Jesus Javier, Ramon Villar, sisters Dalisi and Erline Turbi and Jose Luis Garcia Ortiz who was wounded when he tried to face off against the agents.
The brothers Sail Luis and Otto Luis Ducasse Herrera are on the run together with Cesar Peralta, Pedro Mota and an individual known as "La Araña" -the Spider.
The operation
The DNCD spelled out that the operation began at 5 o'clock in the morning with the inspection of the vehicles that were going to and from the south region of the country. As a result of the searches they "found a suspicious profile" with regards to a white Toyota Tundra pickup truck and a black Honda Acura. These vehicles opened fire on the units of the agency after they were ordered to stop at a police patrol point on the highway between Bani and San Cristobal.
According to the anti-drug agency, the pursuit became a long shootout which ended on at Kilometer 12 of the 30 de Mayo Expressway, where the occupants of the SUV managed to escape.
The DNCD explained that the occupants of the pickup truck were blockaded, and Jose Luis Garcia Ortiz was wounded, and then it was discovered that the vehicle had 31 packs with 770 packages (bricks) of cocaine, according to the field tests that were done on the scene after the seizure.
The DNCD reported that the Justice Department officials from the National District carried out several searches, and one of them, in a residence located on 29 Street at the corner of L, in the La Castellana sector, where Julio Cesar Ducasse Herrera lives, was found to contain 5 packs with 106 bricks of cocaine, three of which were inside a Mitsubishi SUV, License number G-278470, and two were found upstairs in the house.
To Holland
The DNCD said that the group of drug traffickers under arrest yesterday is the same one that at the end of last August received in the South a shipment of 777 kgs of cocaine that were later seized in the Caucedo Multi-Modal Port before they were shipped to Rotterdam, Holland.
"ON this opportunity the intelligence information were so precise that a good part of the criminal structure is under arrest and the brains of it are about to fall into the hands of this agency and the Justice Department and be sent to trial for violating Law 50-88," said the DNCD. Officers belonging to the Center for Information and Joint Coordination (CICC) led by General Valentin Rosado Vicioso, found that the fugitive Sail Luis Ducasse Herrera was in the vicinity of Bani.
He said that they identified Luis Ducasse Herrera as the brains of a structure that used the country as a bridge for trafficking drugs from South America.
The persons arrested are Julio Cesar Herrera Marquez, Marcelino Cuevas Feliz, Melvin Perez, Jesus Javier, Ramon Villar, sisters Dalisi and Erline Turbi and Jose Luis Garcia Ortiz who was wounded when he tried to face off against the agents.
The brothers Sail Luis and Otto Luis Ducasse Herrera are on the run together with Cesar Peralta, Pedro Mota and an individual known as "La Araña" -the Spider.
The operation
The DNCD spelled out that the operation began at 5 o'clock in the morning with the inspection of the vehicles that were going to and from the south region of the country. As a result of the searches they "found a suspicious profile" with regards to a white Toyota Tundra pickup truck and a black Honda Acura. These vehicles opened fire on the units of the agency after they were ordered to stop at a police patrol point on the highway between Bani and San Cristobal.
According to the anti-drug agency, the pursuit became a long shootout which ended on at Kilometer 12 of the 30 de Mayo Expressway, where the occupants of the SUV managed to escape.
The DNCD explained that the occupants of the pickup truck were blockaded, and Jose Luis Garcia Ortiz was wounded, and then it was discovered that the vehicle had 31 packs with 770 packages (bricks) of cocaine, according to the field tests that were done on the scene after the seizure.
The DNCD reported that the Justice Department officials from the National District carried out several searches, and one of them, in a residence located on 29 Street at the corner of L, in the La Castellana sector, where Julio Cesar Ducasse Herrera lives, was found to contain 5 packs with 106 bricks of cocaine, three of which were inside a Mitsubishi SUV, License number G-278470, and two were found upstairs in the house.
To Holland
The DNCD said that the group of drug traffickers under arrest yesterday is the same one that at the end of last August received in the South a shipment of 777 kgs of cocaine that were later seized in the Caucedo Multi-Modal Port before they were shipped to Rotterdam, Holland.
"ON this opportunity the intelligence information were so precise that a good part of the criminal structure is under arrest and the brains of it are about to fall into the hands of this agency and the Justice Department and be sent to trial for violating Law 50-88," said the DNCD. Officers belonging to the Center for Information and Joint Coordination (CICC) led by General Valentin Rosado Vicioso, found that the fugitive Sail Luis Ducasse Herrera was in the vicinity of Bani.