Santo Domingo.- International drug trafficking, especially Colombian cartels, scoff at the country’s security barriers, by airdropping large amounts of drugs, penetrating the airports and directing operations in Dominican territory, and often find their death.

So far this year 83 flights have been detected by the authorities, which arrive presumably to drop drugs along the country’s Caribbean shore, in farms and on little-traveled highways.

According to official data 403 Colombians have been sent to Dominican jails this year, charged with bringing cocaine shipments from their country.

The most recent detainee is Alejandra Téllez Perez, accused of heading a drug operation that would’ve been carried out in Punta Cana (east), and who was arraigned in the Altagracia province court yesterday.

Also being held on narcotics charges are Andres Berroa Mercedes (Capi or Frank), Franklin Natera, Braulio Gaviria, Anthony Ramses or Anthony Rancier, Welinton Uribe Estrada, Mercedes Tajamonte or Mercedes Montes, among others.

The data shows that 32 Colombians have died this year in drug ripoffs, shootouts with Police, Drug Control (DNCD) agents and "accidents," including the severely burned remains of four found in an SUV at the bottom of a ravine in San Cristobal (south) earlier this year.