They seize half a ton of marijuana that was going to be marketed in Bogotá

In recent hours, the Anti-Narcotics Police obtained favorable results from an operation they had been carrying out for several days, after they learned that there was a truck outside Bogotá that would try to bring half a ton of marijuana into the capital. The authorities managed to locate the vehicle, which came from the department of Cauca and intended to enter the city through the municipality of Soacha.

Police investigators who were searching for this shipment indicated that, for four days, they were strengthening security at checkpoints on the access roads to the city, but did not detect the passage of it. “The results were unsuccessful, apparently, the driver of the truck traveled at night and at dawn to avoid police checkpoints,” they told Semana Magazine.

Finally, the operation resulted in the municipality of Soacha, south of Bogotá, where 587 kilos of marijuana were seized, which was intended to be distributed in the city to be marketed in the towns of Santa Fe, Suba and Fontibon. In addition, they have been able to establish that narcotics belonged to the FARC dissidents, specifically to the Dagoberto Ramos structure.

Although the car was normally mobilized at night and at dawn, benefiting from the darkness, the operation that resulted in its location and seizure took place in the morning of Monday, April 4. According to the Antonarcotic Police, they carried out sporadic checks on the roads of the municipality of Cundinamarca and there they saw a vehicle that matched the information they had on marijuana transport, a white truck with a black tent, so they asked the pilot to slow down and allow the review.

“The driver's nervousness was evident and for this reason the police insisted on the search for several minutes and managed to discover the hallucinogen,” they reported. However, finding the cargo was not so easy, at first glance the truck was not carrying anything strange, since the body floor was covered with a wooden surface. Upon finding the deception and breaking that wood, the officers found the marijuana distributed in several packages that they initially identified as “a green substance with a vegetal appearance” and after the respective analysis it was identified as the illegal shipment.

In recent weeks, the Anti-Narcotics Police have strengthened operations against drug trafficking, as is the case with Operation Esmeralda, which achieved this result in Cundinamarca. However, most seizures have occurred on roads in the department of Meta and Cauca.

For example, in Puerto López, Meta, uniformed men captured in flagrante a woman who was transporting 4,500 grams of marijuana inside fire extinguishers and carrying them to carry out a parcel. Before she achieved her task, the citizen was identified by the authorities, who seized the shipment that would be valued at $1′100,000 and intended to produce nearly ten thousand doses of this substance, to be distributed between the municipalities of Puerto López and Puerto Gaitán.

Similarly, in an operation carried out on the Ruta del Sol in Santander, two people were captured carrying a ton of marijuana in the middle of several cardboard boxes in a van, who had left Valle del Cauca.

During the procedure, the uniformed men noticed that foreign elements were hidden behind the recyclable material; they were 1,500 packages lined in plastic bags that, inside, contained marijuana. The seizure amounted to a million 14 thousand doses in the microtrafficking market. “We deal a resounding blow to organizations engaged in drug trafficking and the most important thing is that we take this amount of doses out of the microtrafficking market,” said Colonel Alexander Sánchez, commander of the Police Department of Magdalena Medio.

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