The operation was supported by an aircraft of the United States Southern Command Interagency Joint Task Force – JIATFS.
By means of this finding, more than 28 million dollars were prevented from entering the drug trafficking groups.
In a powerful naval operation, the Colombian Navy reported the finding of more than half a ton of cocaine hydrochloride, which was being transported aboard a ship, in adjacent waters, to the department of Valle del Cauca.
The interception was carried out, given that an aircraft of the Joint Interagency Task Force of the Southern Command of the United States – JIATFS, detected with its radars, a suspicious boat that was sailing at high speed at night, 116 nautical miles from Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca. Immediately, a Rapid Reaction Unit – URR of the Buenaventura Coast Guard Station was deployed to start the operation.
During the procedure, the individuals on board the suspicious ship, noticing the activity of the Naval Institution and the aircraft, started to escape, conducting evasive maneuvers. In their attempt to escape, they left 20 sacks of different shapes and sizes in the sea that, due to their characteristics, would resemble illicit substances.
Thanks to the quick reaction of the Colombian sailors, the material was recovered and transported to the Buenaventura Coast Guard Station, where the Technical Investigation Team - CTI (Technical Investigations Corps) of the Attorney General's Office, conducted the Approved Preliminary Identification Test – PIPH, determining that it was 600 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride.
Source: Press - Navy of Colombia
