More Former Dominican Inmates Repatriated from US

Santo Domingo, Feb 8 (Prensa Latina)

120 former Dominican prisoners who served sentences for drug trafficking, murder, kidnapping, assault and other crimes in the United States arrived in this capital on Sunday.

The group is comprised of 115 men and five women, and arrived at the International Airport of the Americas escorted by federal agents in an aircraft from the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

As some of them could be even potentially dangerous, Dominican authorities established a security cordon to receive them. They were taken to the General Directorate of Immigration, where they will be booked by the police and investigated to know whether they have pending issues with local justice before handing them over to their families.

This is the third group of former prisoners who have returned this year.

About 75 former Dominican inmates (70 men and five women) were repatriated on January 22, and a first group of 80 men arrived on January 8.

1,796 former Dominican convicts were repatriated last year, after serving their respective sentences in US prisons.

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