Santo Domingo.- Investigators in the José Figueroa Agosto case uncovered that the drugs transacted by Manuel Emilio Beltré "E Gringo" and Pascual Cordero Martinez "El Chino" in the capital’s northern slums belonged to the Puerto Rican fugitive, whose organization allegedly close ties with the Cali Drug Cartel.

Figueroa’s drugs, reportedly supplied by Colombia’s Cali Cartel through airdrops in farms and along the Caribbean seashore in the country’s eastern region, where it was gathered by Ramon Antonio del Rosario, and “Toño Leña," a man known as "Pata de Palo" and Pascual de Jesus Cabrera, who were store it prior to distribution and delivery to the ports to ship abroad.

It was here when the brothers Cesar and Miguel Starky Garcia Coste and Joel Hernandez Cuevas came into play, delivering the merchandise to Beltré and Cordero, who dealt it in the capital, especially in the northern barrios.

The authorities believe that this group used the almost abandoned apartment in the condo Carola lV in the upscale sector Naco, to store the drug and went there two or three times per month, but opted to abandon it definitively after their ringleader Figueroa fled.

In Cabrera’s case the Drugs Agency Control (DNCD) accuses him of trafficking 1,000 kilos of cocaine and indicted on February 2, 1998, together with Camilo Perez Diloné "Bimbin" and Martin Cordero "Andrés."

Toño Leña, Pata de Palo and Cabrera Ruiz, according to the DNCD, are the ones responsible for the drugs which enter through the eastern region.

Investigators look for the three like "needles in a haystack" and in Toño Leña’s case, who is accused, among others crimes, of threatening to kill DNCD president Rolando Rosado and was recently declared a fugitive and in revolt by a La Romana judge.