Upon being transported by the Department, the drug would have acquired a cost of approximately 215 million pesos.
The union of forces for the department of Huila: Operation Ípsilon, continues to neutralize the plans of the criminal groups and residual Organized Armed Groups passing through roads department's major shipments of drugs to the strengthening of their financial structure, this time, in three distinct operations where troops found 111 kilos of hallucinogens.
In southern Huila, interdiction efforts against drug trafficking were carried out by troops of Infantry Battalion No.27 Magdalena of the Ninth Brigade and men of the roads Police of Huila.
Intelligence work led to the installation of a checkpoint in the municipality El Cedro in the municipality of Pitalito Huila, where it was possible to make the stop signal to a vehicle with the characteristics supplied by an information human source.
The Military Forces' expertise led to evidence that 65 packages packed in cylindrical plastic bags were transported in the fuel tank. 79 kilos of coca base paste with a cost in the illicit market of 183 million pesos where found. Mr Even López Mosquera and mrs Anyela López Mosquera were arrested for the alleged crime of trafficking, manufacturing and carrying narcotics.
In the west of the department of Huila, in the village El Centro of the municipality of Tesalia, the coordinated operation conducted by troops of the Special Energy and Road Battalion No.12 and Highway Units of the Police of Huila, led to the arrest of Luis Alberto Mera Vargas, alleged owner of a bag that was transported in the luggage compartment of a bus of collective transport of passengers. In total, 20 kilos of marijuana were found by troops at an approximate cost of 20 million pesos.
The operations conducted by the Special Energy and Road Battalion and the Police, also took place in the center of Huila, in the municipality of Betania Vía, from Palermo to Yaguará road. A couple traveling on a motorcycle was required for inspection and background check. After the search troops found three packs of Cripy marijuana in a black plastic bag (12 kilos), with a cost of 12 million pesos, approximately. Those arrested were identified as Leidy Alejandra Rodríguez Herrera and Juan David Rivera Quintero.
Source: press-National Army
