This laboratory would have the capacity to produce half a ton of cocaine hydrochloride.
In compliance with the strategic line of weakening the resources of the threat, as part of the Ayacucho Campaign Plan, troops of the Juan del Corral Mechanized Cavalry Group, of the Fourth Brigade, in coordination with the Anti-Narcotics Police, found and dismantled a cocaine hydrochloride production laboratory.
The facts took place in the village La Tebaida, municipality of San Luis, in the eastern subregion of the department of Antioquia. There the authorities found a wooden structure, covered in canvas and rustic roof.
When carrying out the inspection to the place, they found 350 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride ready to be packaged and subsequently marketed, hallucinogen would cost more than 1,750 million pesos; in the same way, half a ton of solid precursors and 857 gallons of liquid precursors.
In the same way, 1 distillation tower, microwave ovens, a compressor, a metal mold, a hydraulic press, a vacuum sealing machine, an extractor, a gas cylinder, a digital balance, a distillation tower with 4 compartments, several test tubes and several precision scales were destroyed in controlled conditions.
Source: Press - National Army
