Family clan that trafficked drugs from Coquimbo to Araucanía falls

PDI personnel dealt a blow to drug trafficking, after disrupt a family clan that trafficked large quantities of drugs in the regions of Coquimbo and La Araucanía.

This is an operation carried out by members of the Anti-Narcotics and Organized Crime Brigade (Brianco) of the Investigative Police (PDI), together with the Public Ministry, and which managed to dismantle a family criminal clan.

Specific, At least seven people were arrested who were bringing marijuana from the commune of Salamanca, in the north of the country, to sell it in different communes of La Araucanía..

During the investigation, the police seized about 40 kilos of marijuana, firearms, ammunition and explosivesin a simultaneous operation carried out in Temuco (in La Araucanía) and the Coquimbo region.

The head of the PDI Anti-Narcotics Brigade, Ronny Salgado, provided details of how this organization was managed to be disrupted.

“Within the investigation, on the 19th we managed to seize a shipment of drugs. Around two kilos came hidden in sealed PVC tubes that were brought by three people, who were traveling as passengers on interprovincial buses.“, he detailed.

“That allows us to arrest, in addition to the fourth brother, who was the final recipient in Temuco”he stressed.

Family clan hid drugs in a 60-meter tunnel in Salamanca

In the midst of the procedures carried out by the police officers in the Salamanca commune, they found a 60 meter long tunnel, which was used to hide illicit substances and prevent drug seizures.

For this operation, telephone interceptions were key to disrupting this organization.

Likewise, in formalizing the charges, the Prosecutor’s Office invoked the aggravating circumstance of grouping of criminals contemplated in the drug law. This was stated by the spokesperson for the Regional Prosecutor’s Office of La Araucanía, Nelly Marabolí.

In this case, the The Prosecutor’s Office has already formalized three detainees in the Temuco Guarantee Court, who were subject to preventive detention because they considered that their freedom constitutes a danger to the security of society..

For his part, the regional presidential delegate, José Montalva, valued the work carried out by the Prosecutor’s Office and the PDI.

Meanwhile, it was reported that the The rest of those detained in the north of the country will be formalized this Friday.

With this joint diligence of the PDI and the Public Ministry, it was taken out of circulation drug valued at 300 million pesos.