Authorities seize 19 packages of cocaine, apprehend two

Santo Domingo.- Antinarcotics agents arrested Friday two men who were caught red-handed when they were trying to exchange a box containing 19 packages with a white powder presumed to be cocaine.

The suspects, arrested in Luperon Avenue, National District, are Franklin Amador Garcia, 28, and Luis Alberto Mancebo Moreta, 43.

Police said the packages were taken to the National Forensic Sciences Institute (INACIF) for testing and precise measurement.