SANTO DOMINGO.- Dominican antinarcotics (DNCD) agents killed a man who to together with a Colombian woman and a Dominican received a shipment of cocaine airdropped from a small plane in the village Cuyán, La Romana (east).

Juan Jose, 33, was killed shortly after the unidentified airplane dropped the drug, as agents arrived at the site at 2 a.m., when Felix Manuel Mejía Rijo, 32, and the Colombian Paula Alexandra Tellez Perez, awaited to gather the shipment. Both are being held pending charges.

Two guns, ammo, one SUV, 11 batteries and strobe lights, and military uniforms were seized from the group, said DNCD chief Gilberto Delgado Valdez.

He said the Air Force helped to intercept the group, although they seized only a part of the shipment.

The DNCD also seized 150 kilos of cocaine in several operations, 33 of them in the middle of a shootout in a countryside near Higüey.

FILE: Dominican antinarcotics agents prevented an attempted airdop of drugs that was to take place dawn Sunday, with at least one of the suspects shot dead.

Marino Vinicio Castillo, the Presidency’s Adviser on drugs, said the aborted operation was to take place on a unidentified highway in the eastern region. where at least two of the people who awaited for the plane escaped into the brush.

He said the authorities found eleven strobe-type lights at the site, which he didn’t identify, to be used presumably to guide the plane’s airdrop. He said he expects the National Drugs Control Agency (DNCD) to provide more information today.

Castillo, interviewed by Cesar Medina on ColorVision Monday morning, added that he expects the DNCD to provide more information today.