The operation is the result of the Plan Ipsilon: the union of forces for the department of Huila.
Troops of the Magdalena Battalion of the Ninth Brigade and units of the Huila Highway Police found seven kilos of coca base paste packed in plastic bottles and in the fuel tank of a van-type vehicle.
The operation took place in the municipality of El Cedro in the municipality of Pitalito Huila; there, Jesús Antonio Melo Calderón and Darlevi Arenas López were arrested for the crime of trafficking, manufacturing and carrying narcotics.
According to intelligence reports, the drug would have a commercial cost in the illicit market of 19 million pesos, approximately.
It is a coordinated operation that continues to neutralize one of the main links in the productive chain of drug trafficking transported by the roads in Huila, thus counteracting the plans of criminal groups to use the roads of the Opita territory for the transit of hallucinogenic substances.
