Magdalena. In recent hours, units of the National Navy in an operation against the drug trafficking groups that commit crimes in the Caribbean, coordinately with the National Army with the CTI (Technical Investigations Corps) of the Office of the Prosecutor, found about three tons of cocaine in a collection center near the route that leads from Santa Marta to Ciénaga, in the department of Magdalena.
Thanks to information provided to the National Navy on suspicious movements in the area, men of the Coast Guard Station of Santa Marta and Navy specialists, in coordination with the Specialized Directorate against Drug Trafficking and the Technical Corps of Research, CTI, of the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation, with the support of troops of the Army's First Division, a raid was conducted on a scrap metal warehouse, where troops found five buried hideouts which contained 152 sacks with 2996 blocks inside with cocaine hydrochloride.
The material was taken to the Coast Guard Station of Santa Marta, where the CTI (Technical Investigations Corps) conducted the Preliminary Initial Test, Piph, which resulted positive for cocaine hydrochloride. During the operation the individual who was guarding the collection center was captured.
The drug belonged to the organized armed group known as "Los Pachencas" who commit crimes in the department of Magdalena and who would send this drug in fast go boats, from La Guajira to the United States, where it would cost more than 101 million dollars in the illegal market. The alkaloid was put into custody of the Attorney General's Office in Santa Marta.
Source: Caribbean Naval Force - National Navy.
