Local October 6, 2011 - 10:37 am

Agents bust “mules” network took drugs to Europe

SANTO DOMINGO. – The National Drugs Control Agency (DNCD) last night arrested several individuals and a man who allegedly headed a network that sent “mules” loaded with cocaine and heroin to Europe, from a house in the Luperón sector, seizing several guns and passports.

It said Wilson Rodriguez Camilo was detained on a tip received at the start of the week from a Dutch woman in the Las Americas International Airport, were she was detained before boarding flight to France with six packages of cocaine taped to her body and in her luggage.

The DNCD says the “mules” were recruited in the hose number 13, on 23rd street in Luperón, raided by antinarcotics agents, where evidence was found pointing to Rodriguez, including two Bersa 9MM pistols and ammo.

It added that Rodriguez hired the Dutch-Ecuadorian Maria Fernanda Jordan Guevara to smuggle nearly three kilos of pure cocaine to Paris, but was detained as she was about to bard Air France flight 3563.

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