Santo Domingo. – In their effort to apprehend the Puerto Rican ex fugitive Jose Figueroa Agosto  and his Dominican paramour Sobeida Felix, the National Police and the Antinarcotics Agency (DNCD) sent undercover agents to Puerto Rico, Europe and even Oceania countries, a Chinese, a Japanese, two women and others who seemed American among them.

Police chief Rafael Guzmán said the intelligence gathered was shared with US authorities.

Speaking during the luncheon of the American Chamber of Commerce, the official the search for the narcotics trafficker, head of a vast criminal network of hired killers and drug traffickers took “10 long months.”

He said Figueroa is behind at least five murders in the Dominican Republic and affirmed that he and DNCD president Rolando Rosado had to “bite their tongues often” to keep from disclosing what was occurring, because the probe required “patience and silence.”