More than 2.6 tons of marijuana were found by troops of the Colombian Navy during four military operations in the Departments of Valle del Cauca and Chocó, at a time when organized armed groups intended to illegally transport them to Central American countries.
This decisive blow prevents the distribution, marketing and consumption of more than 437 thousand doses of the hallucinogen and hits in more than two million one hundred thousand dollars the finances of organized armed groups with criminal interference in the North and Central Pacific.
The first finding was reported in rural Buenaventura, where units of the Pacific Naval Force, jointly with the National Army and the Colombian Air Force, guided by naval intelligence information, were deployed to the El Histonial stream. In the place, there was a boat named Con Dios Siempre, in which apparently members of the structure 6 Jaime Martínez of the residual organized armed group, activated their firearms upon noticing the work of the military units, who immediately reacted recovering these spaces; the criminals fled the place.
Inside the boat troops found 59 bags, which contained several rectangular packages with a substance similar to marijuana, the boat along with the material found was moved to Buenaventura, where units of the Technical Research Corps –CTI, conducted the approved preliminary identification test - PIPH, which left positive result for 1,893 kilograms of marijuana.
Simultaneously, in a joint and coordinated operation in the Santa Cruz de Buenaventura sector, Valle del Cauca, it was possible to find a boat named La Fortuner, on the banks of an estuary of the Naya river, inside 62 packages were found by troops; according to approved preliminary identification test – PIPH the packages contained 58 kilograms of marijuana.
In the third operation carried out in Virudó, in Bajo Baudó, Department of Chocó, it was possible to find an illegal hiding place on the shore of a stream of the Pavasa River, where 86 rectangular packages were found by troops with approximately 82 kilograms of a plant substance inside which was identified as marijuana after carrying out the rigorous tests. This cargo appears to belong to the Clan del Golfo.
Source: press-Navy of Colombia
