The agency indicated in a press release that it identified four of the 10 arrested during several operations as José Andrés Rodríguez Guzmán, Geraldo Gonell Tejada, Angelita Jose Rodriguez and Carolina del Carmen Guzman.

He pointed out that the authorities are keeping the 10 persons under arrest, while they are looking for others involved in this network, which they have been following for several months.

She pointed out that the structure, called ‘Los Fira’, pretended to have a textile company to move large rolls of fabric, inside which they hid drug packages, to then distribute them in neighborhoods of Santiago and other provinces of the Cibao region.

Two nine millimeter pistols, a shotgun, two cars, a bus, clothes, two digital scales, a vacuum packing machine, cellular phones and 1,487 US dollars were also seized.

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