With this blow to drug trafficking, the Pacific Naval force prevented the entry of more than 13 billion pesos to outlaw organizations.
Maritime operations carried out by units of the Pacific naval force of the Colombian Navy led to the finding of a shipment of cocaine, in the middle of a rescue operation in the Pacific waters of the department of Nariño. Four individuals, including three Costa Ricans, were captured.
In development of control of the sea operations, the maritime patrol ARC Punta Ardita detected four men clinging to the hull of a boat, after suffering a shipwreck in the sector of Pasacaballos, an area of the municipality of Mosquera, Nariño. A Coast Guard Rapid Reaction Unit was immediately deployed to rescue them.
During the operation, the military found 15 sacks containing several rectangular packages tied to the boat, similar to those used by Transnational Organized Crime Groups for drug trafficking
The four men and the material were taken to the Coast Guard Station in Tumaco, where officials of the CTI (Technical Investigations Corps) of the prosecutor's Office conducted the approved preliminary identification test, which turned out to be positive for 306 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride. Apparently, this shipment of narcotics would be destined for Central America.
With this finding the Naval Force of the Pacific prevented the entry of more than 13.490 million pesos to organized armed groups and residual organized armed groups who commit crimes in the Pacific sea waters of Nariño; these are resources they use to finance their operations, criminal attacks against the security, peace and development of the inhabitants in this area of the country.
Source: press-Navy of Colombia
