Santo Domingo.- Special units of the National Drug Control Directorate (
DNCD) and Immigration Inspectors (
DGM), supported by the Panama Police, Interpol, and agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), capture a Panamanian, linked to a criminal structure in that country, dedicated to drug trafficking and money laundering.
Through surveillance and monitoring, DNCD teams executed a search and capture operation on Verbo de Dios street corner Estrella del Ote street, Santo Domingo Este municipality, Santo Domingo province, where they arrested Panamanian Eduardo Lionel Martínez Collins (Ameba).
The foreigner, who was among one of the most wanted fugitives in his country, was part of a criminal structure called Operation Jericho; and had a Red diffusion alert against him by the International Police (Interpol), for the charges of crimes against collective security, conspiracy to commit drug-related crimes and money laundering.
"The 43-year-old Panamanian also has an international arrest warrant from the Superior Metropolitan Prosecutor's Office of Panama for homicide and femicide."
The dangerous fugitive was transferred under strict security measures to Las Américas International Airport, JFPG, by tactical units of the DNCD, where he was handed over to Panamanian officials who transferred him on a commercial flight to his country, to answer the accusations against him.
Martinez Collins was deported to Panama, in compliance with the provisions of Law No. 285-04 on Migration, in its Article No. 15, which establishes that foreigners with criminal records or fugitives from justice in their country will not be admitted into the national territory.
The capture and subsequent deportation of the foreigner is part of the firm commitment of the Dominican Republic to continue improving operational capabilities, with allied countries, in the fight against drug trafficking and transnational organized crime.
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