Dominican Republic seizes more than three thousand drug packages in container from Guatemala

According to Dominican authorities, it is about greater cargo of this substance confiscated in your country.

In relation to the case, Four people were captured.

After receiving intelligence reports, agents and military, assisted by canine units, They intervened a container With dozens of cardboard boxes loaded with Sand for cats in the Eastern Haina port, 20 kilometers from the Dominican capital.

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To passR by X -rays, suspicious images were detected Inside and, as a result, 115 boxes were found with 3.004 packages presumably marijuana wrapped in aluminum foil, whose weight has not yet been established by the authorities.

According to the DNCD, the container, from Guatemalahe was embarked on March 16 and arrived at the 25th of that month at the port of Transhipdo in Panama, where he remained until his re -opening on April 16, for arrive on the 22nd to the port of Río Hainawith the cargo of sand for cats.

As part of the procedure, agents and prosecutors moved to a residence in Villa Mella, another area of ​​the province of Santo Domingo, where Three men and a woman were arrested allegedly linked to this International drug trafficking structure.

In addition, they were seized two vehicles, several mobile phones, cash, documents and other evidence related to research.

Confirm in Puerto Haina more than 3,000 marijuana packages and four people arrested https://t.co/znxv2ot6qk

– National Drug Control Directorate (@DNCDRD) May 1, 2025

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Within the framework of the case, another man is soughtidentified as one of the consignees of the load.

The Public Ministry and the DNCD They continue with the investigations To establish if there are more people involved.

The packets with the substance were referred, under chain of custody, to the National Institute of Forensic Sciences (INACIF) for the corresponding tests.

According to the DNCD, this confiscation “represents one of the biggest blows to drug trafficking Already transnational organized crime ”, in an operation in which the National Directorate of Drug Control, the General Directorate of Customs, State Intelligence Agencies and the Administration of the Port, under the coordination of the Public Ministry participated.