This year, the Colombian Navy has found more than 247 tons of cocaine hydrochloride, preventing outlaw organizations from receiving more than eight billion dollars.
The strategy implemented by the Colombian Navy to close spaces to drug trafficking in the Colombian Caribbean led to a new blow against the Organized Armed Group, GAO, Clan del Golfo, when it found 285 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride, at a time when two individuals were transporting it on board a panga-type boat, in waters of the subregion of the Gulf of Urabá.
The boat was traveling in a suspicious manner, so units of the Urabá Coast Guard Station, which carried out search and maritime control operations northwest of the municipalities of Sapzurro and Acandí, in the Department of Chocó, proceeded to intercept it. Its crew, upon noticing the work of the Colombian Navy personnel, escaped to look for a beach on the coast of Cabo Tiburón to later escape through the vegetation.
During the inspection of the boat, members of the Military Forces saw that the structure had been modified to hide 336 rectangular packages of possible illicit substances inside, which were taken to the dock of the Urabá Coast Guard Station, to carry out the Preliminary Identification Test by CTI (Technical Investigations Corps) officials, leaving positive result for 285 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride.
With this operation it was possible to significantly hit the illicit activities of the structures of the GAO Clan del Golfo that commit crimes in this subregion of the country, by preventing the commercialization of more than 712 thousand doses of the narcotic, which is estimated to cost more than nine million dollars in the illegal international market.
The other two boats were intercepted about 10 days ago when five individuals were carrying in two boats 356 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride and six kilograms of marijuana, bound for Panama.
Source: press-Colombian Navy
