He Dominican Republic Army (ERD) reported this Sunday about the arrest of a Haitian and three Dominicansincluding a retired general of the National Police, for entering undocumented persons through different points in the provinces of Montecristi, Valverde and San Juan de la Maguana.
One of the arrests occurred in the Martín García community in Montecristi, where a Haitian national, identified by Dominican authorities as Lyco Pieabout 30 years old, was caught with a group of 11 undocumented immigrants.
In a press release, the ERD pointed out Pie as “one of the so-called poteas”, the Creole equivalent of the coyotes Mexicans who are in charge of transporting the migrants irregulars across the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
In that sense, the note indicates that the Haitian guided the group of undocumented through a wooded area of Montecristi.
In addition to the arrests, the units of the ERD who acted occupied a weapon of the so-called Chilean and one capsule for the same, Pie, who will be sent to justice, adds the Army note.
Other traffickers of undocumented immigrants arrested
Also in Montecristi, members of the Dominican Army at the Mangá checkpoint detained José Amado Vargas Guzmánwhen he was leaving an alley in the vicinity of Cerro Gordo driving a brand car Toyota Camrygold color, transporting a group of 16 Haitian nationals with irregular immigration status.
While in Las Matas de Farfán, San Juan de la Maguana, two men were arrested trying to evade a checkpoint at the exit Las Matas-Elías Piñathrough an alley in the Cajuil neighborhood, also while they were transporting undocumented immigrants.
The detainees, who were traveling in a white Kia car with three Haitian nationals without documents, were identified as Roque Guzmán Paulino and the retired second lieutenant of the Police, Arcadio Ramon Garciathe latter carried a Tauro brand pistol, 9 millimeter caliber with illegible numbering.
The detainees will be presented before the Public Ministry for the corresponding purposes.
More undocumented immigrants detained in Valverde
In another military operation carried out in Mao, Valverde, they were intercepted two vehicles that transported Haitian nationals in an irregular situation.
Next to the Boca de Mao Municipal District, members of the Army ordered stall two minivansboth Toyota Previa brands, white and red, whose drivers ignored them, so it was necessary to follow up.
When they managed to reach them, they were arrested seven Haitian nationals without documentation, while the drivers and other undocumented people fled.
The detainees, the vehicles and a homemade gun They were taken to the 4th. Infantry Brigade ERDfor the purposes provided.
