Thanks to the timely information of the community, the soldiers who were carrying out military control tasks in the rural area, report finding the truck with the cattle.
In the morning hours in the La Alborada farm of the Cerro Gordo village of the municipality of Guamo, a case of theft of farm animals occurred, a situation that was brought by the civilians to the soldiers of the Infantry Battalion N.18 Colonel Jaime Rooke of the Sixth Brigade of the National Army in coordination with the National Police, who reacted immediately, reporting meters ahead the finding of the truck with the 10 cattle that had been stolen.
In the village La Loma Luisa of the same municipality, the truck is found by the motorized unit and personnel of the National Police, where one individual was driving while two others were on a motorcycle escorting the cattle, when requiring the cattle transport guide, which turned out to be invalid, the truck was detained by the soldiers.
The 10 heads of cattle have a commercial valuation of $100 million pesos, which was going to the municipality of Ortega - Tolima.
The three individuals were put into custody of the National Police for the crimes of theft of farm animals.
Thanks to the timely denunciation of the farmers, it was possible to prevent this grand theft, thanks to the timely reaction of the soldiers of the Sixth Brigade of the National Army within the framework of the Ayacucho Plan.
Source: Press - Fifth Division of the National Army
