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San Salvador - Salvadorian interim Attorney
General Astor Escalante confirmed that the
drug trade has penetrated top national
police authorities, evidenced Saturday after
a drug dealer was sent to prison.
There has been information for long time
about those relations, but the recent
capture of Reynerio Flores by INTERPOL in
Honduras and his imprisonment in a maximum
security penitentiary, prove the need to
continue investigating.
The most important thing is that we are
strengthening institutionality, and when we
are provided with incriminating information
we are severe in using the full weight of
the law, said Escalante Saturday in La
Prensa Grafica daily.
Interviewed on television, head of attorneys
of the Unit against the Organized Crime
Rodolfo Delgado said drug dealers in eastern
Salvador managed to infiltrate the National
Civil Police (DAN) Anti-Drug Division.
A DAN member that was tried was linked to
members of the criminal Los Perrones group,
led by Flores, something revealed by his
drug purchases in Guatemala, he said.
He included two anti-drug officers among
those mentioned. One was arrested in April,
2008, in possession of over $23,000 to buy
drugs, according to his confession.
To National Civil Police Director Jose Luis
Tobar, Flores' capture on Wednesday in
Tegucigalpa, Honduras, was a harsh blow to
the logistical structures of drug
traffickers in the Central American region.
As it was known in a court in this capital,
a preliminary hearing may be held in the
first 15 days of June against the accused,
who has been charged with drug trafficking,
smuggling, illegal association, forgery and
concealing tax information.
According to Salvadorian authorities'
estimates, Los Perrones' leader mobilized
$82 million from drug businesses in Central
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