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In New Offensive Against Micro-trafficking, Over 268,000 Grams Taken off Streets

In a new offensive against the illicit trafficking of controlled substances, agents of the National Directorate of Drug Control (DNCD) and members of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, supported by the National Police, seized more than 268,000 grams of different narcotics in joint operations carried out during the last week in a large part of the national territory.

During the execution of more than four thousand operations and 77 raids, the authorities arrested 871 people. They seized 99,344 grams of cocaine, 164,917 doses of marijuana, 4,231 grams of crack, 2.60 of methamphetamines, as well as 379 ecstasy pills, for a total of 268,495 grams.

In addition, four firearms, 28 machetes and knives, four vehicles, 30 motorcycles, 234 cell phones, 16 communication radios, one bulletproof vest, 84 scales, two slot machines, 500,080 Dominican pesos, and $426 among other evidence, were confiscated.

As part of the new offensive and new strategies to attack micro-trafficking, the authorities have managed to take more than six million grams of cocaine, heroin, marijuana, crack, ecstasy and other substances off the streets in recent months.

Operations to pursue and combat drug trafficking were reinforced in the provincial neighbourhoods of Santo Domingo, Distrito Nacional, Santiago, La Romana, La Altagracia, San Pedro de Macorís, San Cristóbal, Peravia, Azua, Monseñor Nouel, Duarte, Sánchez Ramírez, Samaná, María Trinidad Sánchez, among others.

Official agencies will continue to strengthen operations against macro and micro drug trafficking at the national level as part of their mission to prosecute and punish this crime through Law 50-88 on drugs and controlled substances.

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