Pubdate: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 Source: Dominican Today (Dominican Republic) Copyright: 2007 Dominican Today Contact: http://www.dominicantoday.com/app/contact.aspx Website: http://www.dominicantoday.com Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/4101 AGENCY FEARS FOR DOMINICAN DRUGS CZAR'S LIFE SANTO DOMINGO. - The National Control Drugs Agency (DNCD) today said the fact the name of its president, Rafael Ramirez, had been found written on scraps of paper in several houses recently raided, among them the villa of a kingpin in Juan Dolio, San Pedro (east) is part of an unspecified plan by drug traffickers. "It's been called to our attention that the name of major general Ramirez Ferreira has been found in different raids. The most recent finding took place in a villa property of one Ramon Antonio del Rosario Puente, alias ToA1o LeA1a. In that house at least three scraps of paper were found with the name written by hand, without there being a certainty as to what would be the intention," said the DNCD. In effect, the antinarcotics agency asked "what would be del Rosario Puente's and his accomplices intention" when having the senior official's name by hand, without discarding that some maneuver is procured against him, initiating with a possible campaign of intimidation or disrepute to "damage the work which the DNCD does against local and foreign sponsors of drug trafficking." DNCD spokesman Roberto LebrA3n said that the villa where the scraps of paper were found is located in the exclusive Metro Country Club, in Juan Dolio. Del Rosario is sought by the DNCD for questioning into a shipment of cocaine dropped from an airplane in Batey La CampiA1a, Ramon Santana, where agents seized 30 packages and arrested an individual known likase Ruddy Todd Castro. "Several readings can be given to finding the DNCD president's name written in a place such as the house of an individual lately sought for international drug trafficking" and even more when the institution fights to the death against those involved in the ominous drug trafficking business, taking into account the number of officials and agents assassinated." - --- MAP posted-by: Derek