This drug would cost more than 15 million pesos, in 17,000 doses that would be destined for the center of the country to be distributed by microtrafficking gangs.
Soldiers of the Eighth Brigade, while caring out a checkpoint on the La Línea road, which leads from Calarcá, Quindío, to the city of Bogotá, found 17 kilograms of marijuana in a bus. A trained dog detected the existence of the hallucinogen, and subsequently proceeded to the finding of the narcotic and the arrest of the alleged responsible for transporting it.
During the routine tasks of the troops, they reported an interdepartmental bus, and when checking it, the trained dog identified the existence of drugs. After checking the suitcase, 35 rectangular packages were found by troops wrapped in adhesive tape, which in its contents had a vegetable substance with characteristics similar to those of marijuana.
Allegedly, the individual boarded the vehicle in the municipality of Calarcá, Quindío, and would transport these illegal merchandise under the modality of encomienda (transport of merchandises for third parties), in order to take it in the capital city of the country, and subsequently distribute it to criminal groups that carry out microtrafficking.
The material found and the arrested in flagrante delicto for the crime of trafficking, manufacturing or carrying narcotics were put into custody of the Attorney General's Office for the corresponding prosecution.
Source: Press - Fifth Division of Colombian National Army
