In the operation, eight structures that had the capacity to produce six tons of drugs per month were dismantled; a ton of cocaine hydrochloride, precursors and explosives were found.
All happens in development of operations carried out by the Military Forces against drug trafficking, in coordination with the Technical Investigations Corps of the Prosecutor's Office, in a rural area of the municipality of Tumaco, in Nariño. It was the largest complex for the production of cocaine hydrochloride found in the country. As part of the operation, 19 rudimentary grenades and two improvised explosive devices were in the same way deactivated.
The military operation, carried out with intelligence information, was conducted by troops of the navy Infantry Brigade No.4, attached to the Hercules Joint Task Force, and the National Army Drug Trafficking Brigade, in a coordinated manner and inter-institutional with the Technical Investigation corps of the Prosecutor's Office.
The operations, in the San Sebastián de Tumaco district, led to the discovery of eight structures, organized over a one kilometer extension, where a collection center for solid and liquid precursors, laboratories for the production of coca base paste and a cocaine hydrochloride cocaine laboratory had been built.
Within the structures, more than 4.3 tons of solid precursors and 3,575 gallons of liquid precursors were found, as well as 390 gallons of coca base paste in process and more than one ton of cocaine hydrochloride.
According to intelligence information, this complex had the capacity to produce six tons of cocaine monthly and belonged to the Organized Armed Group Guerrillas Unidas del Pacífico, which commit crimes under the criminal command of alias Borojó, in the southern Pacific region of Nariño.
With the dismantling of this cocaine complex, more than 796 billion pesos, product of the commercialization of the narcotic drug in countries of Central America and the US, were prevented from entering the illegal finances of this criminal structure; if put in the US, the price of the drug would be close to 198 million dollars.
Days before the discovery of this clandestine complex, troops of the Navy infantry Brigade No.4 found an illegal hideout in which 19 rudimentary grenades were being held, each loaded with three kilograms of pentolite (explosive) and two gas cylinders with 35 kilograms of explosives. This material would be used by members of the narcoterrorist organization to attack members of the Security forces.
The eight rustic structures, drugs, precursors and explosives were neutralized in a controlled way at the scene, by men belonging to the Explosives and Demolition Team (EXDE), under strict security regulations and measures for the preservation of the environment.
Source: press - Colombian Navy
