This structure had the mission of working to protect the mobility routes for drug trafficking control and the collection of money from extortion against to strengthen their illicit finances. It is important to mention that during the operation, abundant war materiel, military accessories and explosives were found by troops.
Thanks to the determined support of the Civic Participation Network, in addition to intelligence work and continuous military operations, the Ninth Brigade, through the Magdalena Battalion, with the accompaniment of the CTI (Technical Investigations Corps), managed to neutralize the criminal plans of the residual organized armed group (GAO-r), known as Comandos de Frontera and arrest seven alleged members.
The operations were carried out in the Montosa village, municipality of Acevedo, in the south of Huila. After several days of follow-up, the units found, just 200 meters of the border area with Caquetá, in a wooded area, an abandoned house built of planks from which heavily armed men were leaving and entering.
When shouting the protocolary proclamation on the presence of the Army, the troops were attacked, there were heavy fighting conducted yesterday night and today morning, which led to the arrest of seven men and finding 8 rifles, 35 magazines, more than 2,000 cartridges of different calibers, a hand grenade, 6 field equipment, 9 magazine carrying vests and four cellular equipment.
At this time, the fighting continues as well as the search for other members of the organization who fled after the operation.
According to the intelligence work, the individuals moved of the neighboring department of Caquetá to Huila, with the aim of consolidating a mobility route for the entry of narcotics of the department of Caquetá, crossing the rural area of the municipality of Acevedo, to pass through Suaza, Altamira and from there to Neiva.
This operation ratifies the commitment of the soldiers of the National Army who work tirelessly, without sparing efforts to provide security and well-being to all Huilenses people.
Source: Press - Fifth Division of the National Army
