In a military operation in the rural area of Pitalito, over the weekend Army troops found 1,500 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride and arrested an individual in flagrante

The substance valued at more than 3,500 million pesos came from the city of Popayan, Cauca.

The troops were conducting a checkpoint on roads in the municipality of Agrado, Huila.

Two men were arrested for the alleged crime of trafficking, manufacturing and carrying narcotics.

The shipment, which would cost more than 18,000 million COP approximately, represents one of the largest seizures of this type of narcotics on the roads of the department.