The substance valued at more than 3,500 million pesos came from the city of Popayan, Cauca.
Within the framework of military search and control operations carried out near kilometer 7 of the road leading from the municipality of Pitalito to Saladoblanco, Huila, troops of the Infantry Battalion No. 27 Magdalena, of the Ninth Brigade, in coordination with units of the Transit and Transport Section and Intelligence Section of the Police of the Department of Huila, neutralized the plans of criminal groups to use the roads of the department to pass large shipments of narcotics.
Through a checkpoint, they stop the progress of a truck, asking its driver for documents to make their respective review, the individual told the military personnel that he was not carrying cargo; however, a thorough search of the car was proceeded with the trained dog.
The dog inspecting the inner part of the body of the truck takes its sitting position, demonstrating that at that point there was some kind of substance.
This is how it is detected that this body had a double bottom modification in one of its corners. There the troops found 43 fabrics with packages inside, which by the characteristics of smell and color resembled marijuana.
Subsequently, this individual was arrested and after the substance review process it was established that it was 2360 kilos of marijuana, which would be valued in the illicit market at 3540 million pesos, equivalent to approximately 118,000 doses of marijuana.
Source: Press - Ninth Brigade
