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Link ring at Dominican-Haitian border to latest drugs bust

SANTO DOMINGO.- The National Drugs Control Agency (DNCD) today Wednesday seized 110 kilos of cocaine that were transported by 2 Haitians, arrested in Jimaní (southwest) as they tried passing the narcotics by Customs at that border town, leading that entity?s chief to suspect that it?s about a network which operates the Dominican-Haitian border

DNCD president Rafael Ramirez made the announcement, identifying the detainees as Jeune Jerry and Pascal Jean Lachard, who would?ve received the drugs in Port au Prince, to then cross the border and deliver it to this country.

The cocaine, distributed in 100 packages, was transported by both foreigners in the ceiling of a Haitian registered bus, retained by DNCD agents assigned to Customs in Jimaní. The drug, whose street value runs into the millions of dollars,

was taken immediately to the DNCD compound in this Capital.

The occupants of the vehicle -which the members of the anti-drug agency had been observing for some time- apparently are at the service of a Haitian drug lord, and will be charged in the next hours in Jimaní.

The DNCD chief said that his agency is trying to determine who the detainees? contacts are, to proceed to further arrests "the consignee of consignees of that drug, because we are sure that we are dealing with a network that operates between Haiti and the Dominican Republic."