With this blow to drug trafficking, the Pacific Naval force prevented the entry of approximately four million dollars to transnational criminal organizations.
In the course of a maritime security operation, Colombian Navy units detected the suspicious movement of one ship carrying cocaine and more than one hundred million pesos in cash.
The facts were reported, late at night, when a Rapid Reaction Unit of the Coast Guard in exercise of sea control, detected the boat named Titan whose pilot, a 55-year-old man, was sailing without lights and on an unusual route, which docked at the tourist pier of Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca.
During the inspection of the boat, members of the Military Forces found five black suitcases, four of which contained 111 rectangular packages, similar to those used by transnational illegal organizations for drug trafficking, and one with $100,450,000 pesos in cash.
The individual and the material were taken to the Buenaventura Coast Guard Station, where officers of the National Police's Criminal Investigation operative Group conducted the approved preliminary identification test (PIPH) on the substance found in the packages, which left positive for 111 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride.
Apparently, the intention was to ship this cargo of narcotics on a cargo ship to be destined for Mexico.
The individual, the boat and the drug, were put into custody of the authorities.
Source: press-Colombian Navy
