Two foreigners and a Colombian who were transporting the drug were arrested and prosecuted for the alleged crime of manufacturing, trafficking or carrying narcotics.
The shipment belonged to the Sixth FARC dissident group Jaime Mart铆nez, which stops receiving more than 18 million dollars, money with which they financed their criminal operations in the Central Pacific.
2,824 kilograms of marijuana were found by troops of the Colombian Navy during a maritime interception operation, in the waters of the Central Pacific, where three individuals, two Nicaraguan citizens and a Colombian, were arrested and put into custody of the Attorney General of the Nation.
With Naval Intelligence information, a Sea Patrol Boat of the Pacific Surface Flotilla detected the speedboat that hours before would have sailed of the rural area of Buenaventura, loaded with narcotic substances, being transported to Central America. Once the navy crew identified the ship's course, it deployed a Rapid Reaction Unit of the Buenaventura Coast Guard Station that, in a decisive maritime interception operation, managed to intercept the boat manned by three men.
During the inspection, 106 sacks containing 3,574 packages pressed with a substance a similar to marijuana were found by troops, so the ship was transferred to Buenaventura, where officials of the Technical Research Corps - CTI conducted the Approved Preliminary Identification Test (PIPH), establishing that it was cannabis. 1,155 gallons of fuel were in the same way found during the operation.
With this blow dealt to drug trafficking, the Colombian Navy prevented the circulation and consumption of more than 468 thousand doses of marijuana worldwide, mitigating the generation of new users.
It should be noted that, during the last week, the operations against drug trafficking carried out by the Naval Force of the Pacific, has hit by more than $ 34 million the finance system of Organised Armed Group, Structure Sixth Jaime Martinez, with the finding of more than 3.3 tonnes of illicit substances, weakening its logistics capacity to fund operations of criminals and terrorists against Military Forces and civilians. This narco-terrorist structure, under the criminal command of the individual alias Mayimb煤, interferes in the border area of the departments of Valle del Cauca and Cauca, maintaining links with transnational crime organizations in Central America.
Source: Press - Navy of Colombia
