During two joint and coordinated operations, the Colombian Navy dealt a new blow to drug trafficking organizations with the finding of 647 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride in the department of La Guajira.
The first result was reported when units of the Naval Special Forces Group of the Caribbean of the Colombian Navy in coordination with the troops of the National Army, the Colombian Air Force and CTI (Technical Investigations Corps) units of the Attorney General's Office, moved to the municipality of Uribia (La Guajira), where they searched a suspicious area finding an illegal hideout that was used by drug trafficking organizations for the storage of narcotic substances.
Six sacks with 162 rectangular packages were found by troops inside this place, which when subjected to the Approved Preliminary Identification Tests left positive result for 175.23 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride.
The second operation took place in the framework of the coordination of aero-naval and naval surface Resources of Colombia, together with the National Army and coordinated with the CTI (Technical Investigations Corps), where Units of the coast Guard Station of Santa Marta close the transit by the sea, while the troops of the Naval Special Forces Group of the Caribbean found a hiding place with 14 sacks hidden inside a vehicle in the municipality of Manaure (La Guajira).
In the sacks troops found 472 rectangular packages that were put under PIPH tests, leaving positive result for 472 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride.
It is estimated that the price of the shipments would be approximately 22 million dollars in the international illegal market, money that stops entering the financial structures of drug trafficking organizations that commit crimes in the Colombian Caribbean.
In the same way, more than 1.6 million doses of cocaine were stopped being marketed and distributed on the streets of the world.
Source: Press - Navy of Colombia
