Liquid cocaine seized in wire roll at shipping company in the capital

Santo Domingo.- The National Drug Control Directorate (DNCD) and members of the Public Ministry seized a roll of copper wire filled with liquid cocaine during inspection work at an international shipping company located in the National District. The operational teams, along with canine units, moved to the aforementioned company where they located a box, inside of which a coiled spool of wires was seized, containing within the filaments, a liquid of alleged narcotic substances.

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"Prosecutors ordered a field test of the liquid extracted from the wires, testing positive for cocaine," said the DNCD in a statement released this Wednesday. The package would have been sent by a woman with an alleged address on Enrique Jiménez Moya Avenue, National District, and would be received by an individual in Hill St Waterbury, Connecticut, United States. The Public Ministry and the DNCD are deepening investigations related to the thwarted shipment of the substance, while continuing to intensify their interdiction operations to discover and neutralize these new modalities of international drug trafficking.