Antinarcotics agents seize dollars, arrest two men

Santo Domingo.– Antinarcotics (DNCD) seized Thursday a large amount of US dollars when two members of a drug trafficking network consisting of Dominicans and Venezuelans surreptitiously tried to smuggle the money through the Las Americas International Airport bound for Venezuela.

Those arrested are a Dominican-Venezuelan, 53, and a Dominican, 52, who are under investigation at the DNCD headquarters, where the money was brought with the help of Customs officers.

According to a DNCD press release, the operation was carried in collaboration with the Customs Agency, the public prosecutor and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).