Santo Domingo. - The Immigration Agency today said it dismantled a network in the Las Americas International Airport which trafficked with undocumented persons by air using internal flights, which were diverted to other Caribbean islands.

It said it investigates the pilot Ryan Kite of the U.S. registry aircraft N65NY, aboard which five travelers would be flown to Punta Cana as a domestic flight, and from there illegally to the island of Saint Thomas, to later reach Puerto Rico.

Among thjose detained are Wilfredo Concepción Rosario, Aracelis Santos de la Cruz, Alba Iris Pérez Sánchez, Vicente Rondón Hernández and Bernardo Taveras Frías, who contradicted each other when interrogated, and admitted having paid between 5,000 and 7,000 dollars

Immigration said since it was a local trip, the suspects didn’t have to present documents, and an employee, identified as Elizabeth Santana, had an I.D. card of the airports management company Aerodom, allowing her access to the small plane.

Santana, an employee of the airline Caribair, said she had received the five passengers she had escorted to the restricted area after the pilot Kite, who’s a client of the company, requested check-in and boarding services for those he would fly to Punta Cana in a domestic flight.