With these findings it was possible to prevent more than 18 million doses from being sold.
During these operations against drug trafficking, it was in the same way possible to arrest 12 individuals of different nationalities.
7,537 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride were found by troops in five operations under international agreements conducted by the Colombian Navy and authorities of the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Panama and Guatemala. During these operations against drug trafficking, it was in the same way possible to arrest 12 individuals of different nationalities.
The first result was reported north of the Dutch Keys, the Guna Yala Archipelago (Panama), where surface units of the Colombian Navy and Rapid Reaction Units of the Panamanian National Air and Naval Service intercept a Go Fast ship carrying 3,625 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride. The four men who drove the boat were arrested.
The second operation was carried out by Coast Guard and Surface units of the Caribbean Naval Force with the support of a French Customs aircraft, which intercept a ship manned by five individuals at 188 nautical miles north of Punta Gallinas, La Guajira (Colombia). The boat, which according to naval intelligence information had sailed of the Colombian Caribbean Coast, carried 658.4 kilograms of narcotics.
Similarly, 190 nautical miles south of Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic), units of the Colombian Navy, the Joint Interagency Task Force of the United States Southern Command (JIATFS) and the Royal Navy intercept a boat manned by two individuals, who were carrying 414 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride. This vessel would also have sailed from the Colombian Caribbean Coast and would have the Central American country as its destination.
In addition, units of the Guatemalan Army and Police, guided by information of the Guatemalan Air Force and the Colombian Navy, traveled to the village El Rosal in San Luis, Petén, Guatemala, where they found an incinerated aircraft, an individual and several rectangular packages of cocaine hydrochloride. According to information from naval intelligence, the plane reportedly took off from a clandestine runway in Venezuela with 700 kilograms of narcotics.
Source: press-Colombian Navy
