The authorities arrested a subject who was driving with a ton and a half of cocaine hydrochloride in a rural area of El Bordo.
The authorities arrested a subject who was driving a vehicle with a ton and a half of cocaine hydrochloride on a road in a rural area of the department of Caucain the southwest of the country, the Army reported.
The van had a hidden compartment in which the drugs were hidden “in order not to be discovered during controls”, stated the commander of the Third Division of the Army, General Giovani Valenciawho added that the driver was placed at the disposal of the competent authorities.
The arrest was carried out during the development of military operations in the rural area of El Bordo, in the municipality of Patía, in which soldiers of the High Mountain Battalion No. 4 They intercepted the vehicle with the cocaine through one of the checkpoints.
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“With this result, more than 10,000 million pesos (2.4 million dollars) are affected to the drug trafficking chains and the financing of residual organized armed groups that commit crimes in the southwest of the country,” Valencia noted.
In 2023, authorities seized 739.5 tons of cocaine450 of which were confiscated in international territories, according to official figures from the Ministry of Defense.
The areas of both cultivation and production of base paste and cocaine in Colombia They have concentrated on the borders with Venezuela, Ecuador and Peru.
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