Local November 21, 2011 - 7:40 am

Agents find villas used by Puerto Rican kingpin in beach town

Santo Domingo. – The National Drugs Control Agency (DNCD) found a complex of villas in the beach town of Boca Chica, used by Puerto Rican kingpin Jose Figueroa Agosto to receive boats with drug shipments, news source eldia.com.do reports.

It said the drugs were received from South America and to Puerto Rico from the villas, whose piers can dock craft of various sizes.

The DNCD also announced the start a sweep of the South and East coasts to find similar facilities as those found in Boca Chica and used by drug traffickers.

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