The wife of a Canadian man who was arrested in the Dominican Republic after he was accused of smuggling drugs says all charges against him have been dropped, but he remains stuck there indefinitely.
Jane Wilcox and her husband David Bennett had spent a week at a resort in the Dominican Republic with two friends and were on their way home on March 7 when her husband was denied entry at the automated customs gate at a Punta Cana airport and taken to an interrogation room, she said.
There, the couple from Burlington, Ont., were shown a photo of a bag they didn’t recognize, with a slightly different name on it—Davi Bennett instead of David R. Bennett, the name on her husband’s bag and all his travel documents, she said….