This shipment of illicit drugs costs more than $ 18 million USD in international illegal markets.
A new blow to drug trafficking was dealt by Colombian Navy Coast Guard units, with the interception of a boat containing more than half a ton of cocaine while sailing in the waters of the South Pacific of the department of Nariño. Three men were arrested for the crime of trafficking, manufacturing and carrying of narcotics.
The boat with the narcotics cargo apparently belonging to the residual organized armed group Bloque Occidental Alfonso Cano, was detected by a ship of the Pacific Naval force and a Rapid Reaction Unit of the Tumaco Coast Guard station, 70 nautical miles of the municipality of Mosquera, during security and sea control operations.
Once the three men had intercepted the boat, it was verified by members of the Coast Guard, who found communication equipment and 28 sacks hidden under black plastic in the bow of the boat, with physical characteristics similar to those used by drug trafficking organizations to transport illicit drugs under the mode Speedboats.
Already in the port, officials of the technical investigation Corps of the Attorney General's Office conducted the preliminary identification test approved to the substances found in the packages, leaving positive for 549.4 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride. With this decisive operation against drug trafficking, the Colombian Navy continues to significantly damage the finances of the FARC dissidents, who commit crimes on the Nariño Pacific Coast, preventing the income of approximately $ 18 million, with which they sought to acquire war material and military accessories to attack communities and Military Forces, and finance the recruitment and forced indoctrination of minors and people under special protection.
Source: press-Colombian Navy
