Canada air crew caught up in ‘hellish’ Dominican Republic drugs bust begs for repatriation

Five-member crew was detained after they found a bag of cocaine on 5 April and spent nine days in jail in a hellish situation'

A five-person Canadian airline crew caught up in a drug-trafficking investigation is begging their government to repatriate them after two months trapped in the Dominican Republic.

It's absolutely horrendous - terrible, terrible stuff we're going through," said captain Robert Di Venanzo, who said he and his crew could be held for up to a year while an investigation proceeds.