It is severe blow to the illicit activities of the residual groups with the finding of 434 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride.
The cargo has a cost in the illicit market of more than 2,000 million COP.
In the framework of Plan Pistola, the Ninth Brigade through the Magdalena Infantry Battalion, with the judicial support of the Highway Police, dealt a decisive blow that hits the illicit activities of the Structure 48, Comandos de Frontera of the Second Marquetalia.
This is the finding of approximately 434 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride, which would cost in the illicit market more than 2 billion pesos, money that would be used by illegal armed organizations to finance their criminal activities.
The operation was reported in the municipality El Cedro, in the municipality of Pitalito, south of Huila, where soldiers and police officers, using the canines and information of the Civic Participation Network, made the stop sign and made a thorough inspection that led to the detection of the illicit substance camouflaged in the tires of a tractor-trailer type vehicle.
In total, the units extracted 158 packages wrapped in black plastic that apparently were loaded in the department of Putumayo.
For the fact, the driver of the vehicle identified as Oligario Benavides Gutiérrez was arrested in flagrante delicto and will be prosecuted for the crime of trafficking, manufacture and possession of drugs.
On the other hand, in the same sector, after the inspection of a bus of collective transport of passengers, a box and a suitcase with approximately 16 kilograms of creepy marijuana was found in the baggage hold.
The drug, which would cost 16 million pesos, would have been acquired in Cauca and transported through the parcel modality.
