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Santo Domingo. - In a new offensive that demonstrates the authorities' commitment to combat and eradicate drug trafficking, officers from the National Drug Control Directorate (DNCD) and members of the Public Ministry, supported by police officers, seized more than 800,000 grams of different narcotics during joint and interdiction operations carried out during the month of September.
In about 249 raids and thousands of operations, 3,448 people were arrested and 407,408 grams of alleged cocaine, 379,150 of marijuana, 13,726 grams of crack, 103 of hashish, 8.50 of methamphetamines, 3.70 of tusi, 1.80 grams of heroin and 302 ecstasy pills were seized, for a consolidated total of 800,402 grams.
In addition, 19 vehicles, 134 motorcycles, 32 firearms, 69 knives and machetes, 981 cell phones, 138 communication radios, 06 bulletproof vests, 412 scales, 14 slot machines, money in pesos and dollars, as well as other evidence used by micro-trafficking networks for the sale of controlled substances were seized.
"These interdiction operations are framed within the new strategies outlined by the security agencies, integrated into the Joint Task Force, to attack the corridors of criminality and the trafficking of narcotic substances."
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The Public Ministry, the DNCD, and the National Police maintain close cooperation in the fight against and prosecution of drug trafficking, managing to take out of circulation, during this 2025, more than six million grams of cocaine, marijuana, crack, ecstasy, and other substances. Those figures are the result of the arduous and continuous work of the authorities, who together, have intensified operations to combat and eradicate drug trafficking and sales throughout the national territory.
