In total, 258 kilos of narcotics were seized.
The permanent operations of the troops of the 27th Infantry Battalion Magdalena of the ninth Brigade and the staff of the Traffic Police of the Department of Huila, through the installation of a control checkpoint, led to counteract the plans of the Criminal groups of transporting a millionaire shipment of cocaine hydrochloride by the Huila highways.
The anti-drug operation led to stop a truck-type vehicle and conduct a thorough search in the vehicle that covered the Mocoa, Putumayo - Pitalito, Huila route.
After the inspection in El Cedro, in Pitalito, the military noticed modifications in the trailer floor, proceeding, with the help of tools, to open the four compartments that were discovered.
In total, 223 square packages (258 kilos) were removed. They had a logo of a cock for the identification of the recipient of the shipment.
For the crime of trafficking, manufacturing and carrying narcotics, was captured Diego Fernando Betancur Torres, who was put into custody of the authority, which in the next few hours will be put into judicial procedures.
The drug would cost 1,290 million pesos and, along with the vehicle, was put into custody of the judicial authority.
Source: National Army - News Agency
