Tumaco. A maritime interdiction operation conducted by the National Navy in the Colombian South Pacific, detected a submarine with 748 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride, which was manned by four individuals in the area of the Island of Gorgona, in the department of Cauca.
The strategy implemented to close spaces for drug trafficking in the Colombian Pacific, led intelligence information of the National Navy to guide the units of the Pacific Naval Force to interdict a modified boat to be submarine, which was adrift, in the area of the Gorgona National Natural Park, after suffering mechanical failures during its navigation towards Central America. A military reconnaissance plane Cessna SR-560 Tracker of the Colombian Air Force participated in the operation.
During the initial inspection of this boat, gray and green, powered by three engines, they were discovered by four crew members, all of Colombian nationality, who transported 38 bags containing packages with characteristics similar to those used by drug trafficking organizations to transport alkaloids. .
Immediately, Coast Guard units took the men, the material and the ship to the facilities of the National Navy in the municipality of Tumaco, in Nariño, to make a thorough inspection of the ship, which sank due to the uncontrollable entry of water.
Units of the Anti-Narcotics Judicial Police carried out the Preliminary examination, to the substance found in 750 packages which resulted positive for cocaine hydrochloride, whose cost would amount to 24.5 million dollars in the illegal international market. The four individuals will be prosecuted for the crimes of trafficking, manufacturing and / or carrying narcotics.
So far this year, the Pacific Naval Force has found more than 58 tons of alkaloid, preventing the entrance of 1,900 million dollars in the finances of drug trafficking organizations and has weakened significantly their logistics structure, with the capture of 85 members.
Source: National Navy
