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Local January 25, 2011 | 7:19 am

Dominican officers sought to take over Puerto Rican kingpin’s drug empire

Santo Domingo. - The National Drugs Control Agency (DNCD) yesterday affirmed that a group of officers discharged from their institutions, four colonels, two majors and four lieutenants among them, sought to form a ring of narcotics traffickers to replace the Puerto Rican kingpin Jose Figueroa Agosto’s network.

DNCD spokesman Ramon A. Rodriguez said the officers were part of a group of 2... Read more