Army private jailed for smuggling drugs into Salcedo prison

listindiario.com (Spanish) —

A Dominican Army private received three months of pretrial detention for smuggling drugs into the Juana Núñez prison in Salcedo, Hermanas Mirabal province. The court imposed the measure after the soldier was caught with 677 grams of marijuana and 149 grams of cocaine on September 26. He had requested permission to dine out, then returned with the package. Prosecutors charged him under the country's controlled substances law. He will serve the detention at the La Isleta correctional center in Moca.


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