They intercept other 40 travelers

Less than 24 hours that perish three people in a yola capsized off the coast of Nagua when heading to Puerto Rico, the Navy (MdG) yesterday intercepted a fragile vessel on Catalina Island with 40 people on board wearing the same destination.

The director of intelligence of the MdG, Rear Admiral Luis Castro, reported that they had been notified of this trip and the intelligence agencies were put on alert and managed to catch the group.

It was reported that the travelers are detained in La Romana and are investigated to determine where left and who is the organizer of the trip.

"We have in our possession the boat and outboard motor." "We do not know if they left on Sunday or Monday today (yesterday), but those details are investigating them," he added.

The Navy reported that so far this year has been thwarted more than 140 illegal travel towards Puerto Rico in those who were involved for the u000aless 600 Dominicans and almost a hundred foreigners.

However, despite the surveillance carried out by the Navy and the coast guard of United States, Dominicans and foreigners they manage to reach Puerto Rico in fragile boats.

This year was reported almost a dozen illegal travel to zozobraron in different parts of the Caribbean Sea.

In last November of Puerto Rico Coast Guard repatriated 41 Dominican citizens to La Romana in Dominican Republic, after an intervention with undocumented 69 made about seven nautical miles north of Isabela.

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