The operation was coordinated and conducted by National Army troops and Meta sectional Highway Police, on the old road that leads from Bogotá to Villavicencio.
Troops of the National Army in defensive tasks whose purpose is focused on protecting civilians, their assets and critical infrastructure, in coordination with the Highway Police carry out joint work and after a stop call to a vehicle (Chevrolet Swift, blue) that was moving on the old road that leads from Bogotá to Villavicencio by the National Police. The vehicle ignores it and escaped, meters later they decide to abandon the vehicle and escaped to a wooded site that was in the sector.
Immediately, the Highway Police contact with the soldiers of the Airborne Infantry Battalion No.20 Servíez, of the Seventh Army Brigade, who were engaged in tactical area defense work at the La Reforma Military Base and in a quick operation, isolated and found the vehicle and initiated search work for the individuals.
Once the vehicle is immobilized, the visual inspection is carried out, discovering that inside there are six PVC tube cylinders wrapped in thick foamy paper and black and white plastic, on the rear seats of the car, in which 216 packages with a vegetable-type substance that resembles crippy-type marijuana were placed, After being valued, its full condition is established and quantified in 200 kilos of crippy-type marijuana that would cost approximately 122 million pesos.
The respective investigation is being carried out to establish where the drug was going to be distributed, as well as who would be behind the events.
The immobilized vehicle and the marijuana found were put into custody of the judicial authority.
Source: Press - National Army
