This laboratory belonged to the Jhon Linares Structure, of the Jorge Suárez Briceño Bloc; the destruction represents a loss of more than 3,000 million pesos.
Within the framework of the Ayacucho Plus Campaign Plan and through intelligence work, the Omega Task Force of Colombian National Army, in a joint and coordinated work with the Colombian Aerospace Force and the Anti-Narcotics Police Directorate, found and dismantled a cocaine hydrochloride production laboratory in the village of Las Orquídeas, of the municipality of San José del Guaviare, department of Guaviare
Après avoir effectué la reconnaissance du terrain, les soldats du Bataillon de Déploiement Rapide Nº 33, de la Force de Déploiement Rapide Nº 11, ont trouvé un mégalaboratoire, qui comportait cinq structures de dimensions différentes qui appartiendraient aux activités illicites liées au groupe armé organisé résiduel Structura Jhon Linares, du bloc Jorge Suárez Briceño. After carrying out the reconnaissance of the terrain, soldiers of the Rapid Deployment Battalion Nº 33, of the Rapid Deployment Force Nº 11, found a megalaboratory, which had five structures of different dimensions that would belong to the illicit activities linked to the residual organized armed group Structura Jhon Linares, of the Jorge Suárez Briceño Bloc.
More than 250 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride, 320 gallons of cocaine in suspension, more than 1,100 gallons of gasoline and 2,230 gallons of DIESEL were found by troops there, among other supplies.
In machinery and equipment, a distillation tower, 2 industrial electricity generators, a drying table, 4 microwave ovens, a dryer, 4 precision scales, a compressor, 21 barrels, a vacuum packing machine were found by troops.
The capacity of these laboratories led to an approximate weekly production of 400 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride, with an estimated cost of 2,800 million pesos, which represents this is a significant blow dealt to the financial structure of drug trafficking in the south of the department.
Source: Press - Omega Task Force
