In the framework of two operations, 1.8 tons of cocaine and three tons of marijuana were found by troops.
Within the framework of the maritime and Ground operations carried out by the Colombian Navy in the Pacific, 4.8 tons of narcotics were found by troops in the departments of Valle del Cauca and Chocó department.
The first operation began when a ship of the Pacific Naval Force detected through its radars, a ship sailing suspiciously 64 nautical miles from Buenaventura. Immediately, a Rapid Reaction Unit - URR of the Coast Guard Station moved to the place, where, due to a chase at sea, managed to intercept the boat that had tried to escape.
When intercepting and checking the ship, the Colombian sailors found five crew members, three Nicaraguans and two Costa Ricans, transporting 24 barrels with fuel, 138 sacks of different shapes and sizes, in addition to four rectangular packages, which by their characteristics would be drugs.
Subsequently, the individuals and the material found were taken to the facilities of the Buenaventura Coast Guard Station, where the Approved Preliminary Identification Test – PIPH - was conducted, determining that it was 1,204 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride and 2,215 of marijuana.
The five arrested, whose ages range from 23 to 41, were put into custody of the Attorney General's Office, to conduct the relevant judicial procedures.
In the second operation, during military control operations, in the Abega sector, a rural area of the municipality of Bahía Solano, in the department of Chocó, an illegal hiding place was found in a wooded area, where 64 sacks and two barrels were found by troops, which, apparently, would be illicit substances.
Later, the material was transported to the facilities of Navy Infantry Battalion No.23, in Bahía Solano - Chocó department, where the Technical Judicial Investigation Staff of the Prosecutor's Office - CTI (Technical Investigations Corps) carried out the relevant tests on the substances found, establishing that it was 786 kilograms of marijuana and 670 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride.
Through these operations, the Naval Institution prevented more than five million doses of drugs from being marketed on the streets of the world, in the same way denying the entry of more than one hundred million dollars to the drug trafficking organizations that commit crimes in the Colombian Pacific.
Source: Press - Navy of Colombia
