Three people, two of Colombian nationality and one Honduran, were arrested for the crime of manufacturing, carrying and trafficking narcotics.
Through this finding, the commercialization of 496 thousand doses was prevented.
Within the framework of maritime control activities, the Colombian Navy, through the Specific Command of San Andrés and Providencia, in an interagency operation with the Joint and Interagency Task Force of the Southern Command of the United States -JIAFTS-, seized 199 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride that were being transported aboard a Go Fast type boat that sailed north of the Archipelago department.
Once the alert was received, the Coast Guard Station of San Andrés Isla, sent a Rapid Reaction Unit -URR-, and after several hours of follow-up and an intense pursuit to the suspicious ship, a lobster boat, intercepted it, which, while escaping, left the sacks to the sea containing suspicious substances.
Three crew members were found by troops on board the ship, two of Colombian nationality and one Honduran. In the same way, a search pattern was established in order to recover the material left at sea. Thanks to the quick and effective response of the units and the personnel, with the support of the ship ARC Victoria, one URR and one Unit, eight sacks were found.
Subsequently, the personnel and the material were taken to the dock of the Coast Guard Station of San Andrés, where units of the Technical Research Corps –CTI-, carried out the Approved Preliminary Identification Test –PIPH-, which gave a positive result for 199 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride that would cost, approximately, nine million dollars.
The Colombian Navy will continue to make use of its resources, as well as the human talent available to weaken the drug trafficking chains and illicit activities, mitigating the factors of instability that hit the Archipelago department.
Source: Press – Navy of Colombia
