Joint work allowed the seizure of a ton and a half of export-type cocaine hydrochloride - Colombia

Tuesday, March 01, 2022

The alkaloid is valued at the sum of $55 million dollars.

Thanks to the investigative work and collection of information by units attached to the SIJIN Criminal Investigation Section of Sucre and in development of the Operation called ‘FALCON’, the coordinated and inter-institutional work between units of the Colombian Navy and the National Police allowed the seizure of 1,518 kilograms of high-purity export-type cocaine hydrochloride.

Using available land, sea and air resources, the troops of both forces carried out the operation in the sector known as ‘Boca de Tinajones’, jurisdiction of the municipality of San Bernando del Viento, Córdoba.

The cache was located exactly in the ‘Sicara’ district of that municipality, where an illegal deposit was used by a transnational criminal organization dedicated to the transport and sale of drugs to Central America and finally to the United States markets.

According to judicial police investigations, the drug would belong to the logistics and financial subsystem of the Organized Armed Group GAO Clan del Golfo, and it was established that said structure would be gathering the cache to be used in a shipment with drugs by boat modality. fast; 61 sacks of this illicit substance were presumably destined for North American countries.

This result was achieved thanks to the forcefulness of the public force that spares no effort to guarantee coexistence and security in this area of ​​the Atlantic coast.

It should be noted that members of the Technical Investigation Corps of the Prosecutor’s Office applied the approved preliminary identification test – PIPH to the substance found inside the packages, which was positive for 1,518 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride.

During the operation, no captures were recorded, however, investigations continue to determine those allegedly responsible for guarding and marketing the alkaloid that would be valued at approximately $55 million dollars placed in US territory.

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