Those arrested would be guarding a hydrochloride laboratory that produced about a ton of cocaine a month. The illicit activities of the GAO-r Estructura Primera will be hit by more than 10,000 million COP.
In the last few hours, in the municipality of La Florida, municipality of El Retorno, department of Guaviare, troops of the Jungle Infantry Battalion No. 24 General Luis Carlos Camacho Leyva engaged a fight with those who would be guarding the laboratory where cocaine hydrochloride was produced. This cell, made of an approximate of 14 men, immediately escaped.
After that, once the Army troops proceeded to search the area, they arrested five individuals who were said to be at the service of the residual organized armed group (GAO-r) Estructura Primera Armado Ríos, under the command of the ringleader alias Iván Mordisco, at the time they were producing 16.5 kilograms of a pressed white substance, possibly cocaine hydrochloride, and 80.65 kilograms of a yellow sandy substance, apparently coca base paste.
In the same way, in the place were found by troops 3 microwave ovens, a hydraulic press, 2 precision scales, a AC transformer, 2 electric pumps, 2 distillation tower, 4 tanks with chemicals for the production of the drug, more than 1400 gallons of DIESEL, 200 gallons of coca base in process and 100 gallons of butane, among other elements with which the cocaine would be processed.
The laboratory was built with handcrafted wood on three levels: one level with chemical elements, another with coca base paste and another that would function as a preparation area.
The elements found would cost more than 600 million pesos, with which they would be producing a ton of cocaine hydrochloride per month, valued at approximately 10,000 million pesos.
Those arrested as well as the material found were given to the authorities.
