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US Guns Fuel Arms Trafficking in the Dominican Republic

InSight Crime

3 June 2022

By Douwe Den Held

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In total, Dominican authorities seized almost 5,000 arms between April 2019 and March 2022. In the same period, police registered some 1,800 stolen arms.

(…) Aside from growing demand, the Dominican Republic's influx of assault weapons also underlines the centrality of US-based Dominican crime networks – combined with an abundance of US guns – in fueling insecurity in the country.

[Chart in original]
Arms seized in the Dominican Republic 2018-2022
2022: 590*
2021: 2,616
2020: 791
2019: 1,686
2018: 853

*Jan-Mar

Most seizures of illegally imported arms are made in Haina Port and come from the United States.(…)

Yet the reverse is also true. Some guns trafficked into the Dominican Republic actually end up in Haiti. An estimated 500,000 illegal arms are circulating in Haiti, the Miami Herald reported.

ID: N891

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