Through these results, the Colombian Navy prevented more than 10 million dollars from entering the finances of the drug trafficking organizations that commit crimes in the area.
During one of the operations, two individuals of Nicaraguan nationality and a Colombian were arrested.
As part of two comprehensive maritime security and control operations carried out by the Colombian Navy during the last week in the Pacific, 1,600 kilograms of marijuana were found by troops in waters adjacent to the department of Valle del Cauca.
In the first operation, units of the Naval Institution that were being conducted in the central Pacific, inspected a ship manned by three individuals, including two Nicaraguans and a Colombian, who were transporting 46 sacks of different shapes and sizes, which by their characteristics resembled illicit substances.
In the second operation, a ship of the Pacific Naval Force detected with its radars some bags floating adrift in the sea. Immediately, a Rapid Reaction Unit - URR of the Buenaventura Coast Guard Station was deployed, who conducted the on-site finding 17 sacks apparently with drugs.
Later, the Colombian sailors transported the personnel, the material and the boat to the Coast Guard Station of Buenaventura, where the CTI Technical Investigations Corps of the Prosecutor's Office, conducted the Approved Preliminary Identification Test - PIPH, determining that the boat was transporting 1,148 kilograms of marijuana and the bags floating in the sea, contained 452 kilograms of this same substance inside.
Thanks to these findings, more than 260 thousand doses of narcotics were prevented from being marketed on the streets of the world.
Source: Press - Navy of Colombia
