Last week, 2,932 kilograms of drugs have been found, preventing about $99 million from entering transnational crime organizations.
In the framework of different maritime control and comprehensive security operations, carried out by the Colombian Navy units in the Colombian Pacific, 1,543 kilograms of narcotics were found by troops in waters adjacent to the departments of Valle del Cauca and Chocó department.
In the first operation, which was supported by a United States aircraft, a chase was carried out on a suspicious boat in the Valle del Cauca, in which Colombian Sailors found three individuals, two of Panamanian nationality and one Colombian. Inside the ship, military personnel found 30 sacks and two rectangular packages of different shapes and sizes with possible illicit substances, for which they were transported aboard a Rapid Reaction Unit to the Buenaventura Coast Guard Station, where judicial authorities determined that they were transporting 987 kilograms of marijuana.
In the second operation, carried out in the department of Chocó, the Coast Guard unit intercepted a boat manned by two individuals of Colombian nationality, who were carrying packages similar to those used by criminal organizations to transport drugs. After taking them to the Coast Guard Station of Bahía Solano, the authority practiced the Approved Preliminary Identification Test - PIPH, which left positive result for 495 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride.
The third case was reported in Bahía Málaga, when Colombian Navy units detected two suspicious bags floating in the sea. The military personnel found inside 59 rectangular packages apparently by means of narcotics, which were transported in a Rapid Reaction Unit to the Coast Guard Station of Buenaventura. At the scene, the judicial authorities established that they contained 61 kilograms of marijuana.
The five individuals were put into custody of the authorities for their prosecution, for the alleged crime of trafficking, manufacturing and carrying narcotics. Through this finding, the Naval Institution prevented about one and a half million doses of drugs from being marketed on the streets of the world.
Source: Press – Navy of Colombia
