Agents of the Dirección Nacional de Control de Drogas (DNCD), the Dominican Republic’s drug-control agency, and members of the Armada de República Dominicana, the navy, seized 19 packs of hashish during an inspection on the coast of Miches, in El Seibo province.[1] Members of the Public Ministry coordinated the joint operation.[1] Intelligence information alerted the teams to suspicious movement at Las Pasas beach.[1] They went to the beach, searched the area and found a sack containing the suspected narcotic.[1] Following the prosecutor’s instructions, the agents opened the sack and seized 19 packs containing 380 portions of hashish.[1] The Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Forenses (Inacif), the national forensic sciences institute, analysed the packs and determined that they weighed 33.60 pounds in all, about 15.24 kilograms.[1]

After the find, the teams widened the search along the whole shoreline for further evidence and for the people behind the failed operation.[1] Several people who were near the place at the time of the intervention were detained for investigation.[1] The DNCD said that, with other state security bodies, it was reinforcing interdiction at airports, ports and borders and across the country as part of the fight against drug trafficking.[2]