The permanent maritime operations against transnational drug trafficking in the Colombian Pacific led Colombian Navy units to intercept a ship manned by two individuals carrying 727 kilograms of marijuana.
This blow to drug trafficking was reported on the sea approximately 55 kilometers from Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca, where a Colombian Navy ship detected the boat that had sailed minutes before the Boca Cajambre sector, at high speeds at night.
This action generated an alert in the Units that immediately began the maritime interception operation. After several minutes of pursuit, the boat was stopped and inspected by units of the Buenaventura Coast Guard Station, who found 730 packages pressed with the narcotic substance inside.
The boat, the two men who crewed it and the cargo were taken to the Buenaventura Coast Guard Station, where officials of the Attorney General's Office made the preliminary identification test – PIPH, to the substance found in the packages determining that it corresponded to 727 kg of marijuana. The two men were arrested and put into custody of the authorities.
It should be noted that marijuana use hit cognitive development in people under 25 years old, the ability to think and plan in adults and in general, it produces alterations in the cardio-circulatory system, emotional disorders (anxiety and depression) and bronco-pulmonary diseases.
With this finding, the Colombian Navy prevented the worldwide consumption of more than 120 thousand doses of the narcotic, counteracting in turn problems in public health at a global level derived of the abuse of this drug. In the same way, it prevented the entry of nearly five million dollars to criminal groups of drug trafficking that commit crimes in the central Pacific whose main source of finance is the illegal shipment of illicit substances to other countries.
Source: press-Colombian Navy
