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.

Medellín: They find 100 kilos of coca hydrochloride inside a truck - Medellín - Colombia

The Metropolitan Police of Valle de Aburrá announced several arrests and operations against drug trafficking

One of the most important had to do with an operational action carried out by the Criminal Investigation Section (Sijin), who abandoned tanker truck found in the La Iguana neighborhood.

After verifying with the Anti-explosive group that the vehicle did not have any type of lethal element, an expert with his canine checked each part of the truck tract, until the dog found something in one of the tank compartments, giving a positive signal that at inside there were narcotics.

“For this reason, the tractor-trailer is transferred to the Sijin facilities where they verify the indicated compartment. In the registry they found under the modality of cove 100,000 grams of cocaine hydrochloride. Apparently said narcotic substance would be destined for Urabá Antioqueño,” said Colonel Rolfy Mauricio Jiménez, commander in charge of the Valle de Aburrá Metropolitan Police.

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Apparently said narcotic substance would be destined for Urabá Antioqueño

Colonel Jiménez indicated that when he was cornered, the truck driver chose to flee and leave the vehicle abandoned.

For his part, the Operational Undersecretary for Security, Ómar Rodríguez, reported that During this year the Police have captured 1,177 people for this crimeof which 1,159 have been in flagrante delicto.

“This is a sample of the reaction capacity of the units, articulated to the video surveillance system, with the cameras always ready to be a powerful tool,” Rodríguez said.

In another procedure, a patrol in the Guayabal neighborhood seized three black plastic bags from two men who were getting out of a vehicle in which there were 2,400 plastic tubes that contained marijuana and 490 brown paper-wrapped cigarettes with marijuana.

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“All these narcotics had an approximate weight of 8,000 gramsimmediately the uniformed men of 40 and 44 years of age were made aware of the rights they have as people captured for the crimes of drug trafficking, manufacture and possession, “said the uniformed officer.

Finally, the patrols of the National Model of Community Surveillance by Quadrants, the radio operators and visualizers of the Integrated Emergency and Security System arrested three people dedicated to the sale of narcotics: one had 70 grams of cocaine, another 100 grams of coca base and a woman of foreign nationality was carrying 800 grams of marijuana.

In total, there were 109 kilos of drugs seized, representing approximately 20,000 doses. Likewise, during the almost two months of this year, the authorities They have seized 500 kilos of hallucinogenic substances.

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