October 13, 2022, 2:00 PM
October 13, 2022, 2:00 PM
military of the The Strategic Operational Command for the Fight Against Smuggling (CEO-LCC) denounced the three people, who were caught transporting weapons. It happened on Sunday afternoon in Santiago de Machaca, La Paz, when agents of Joint Task Force Alpha intercepted a white Toyota vehicle with control plate 1211-IHS, It had three people on board.
The nervousness shown by two men and a woman when they saw the military checkpoint led the uniformed men to insist on requisitioning the vehicle. Great was his surprise when he found ammunition and a magazine for a firearm. But that was not all, in the aguayo that the woman was carrying and refused to show, there was a UZI machine gun.
The report reveals that the military were looking for contraband products, but they found the structure a 9-millimeter caliber ammunition magazine. This fact led them to suspect the woman and to requisition the aguayo.
Faced with this situation, they put up a tenacious resistance, preventing the military from carrying out their task, for which they requested support from the Santiago de Machaca police.
Only in the police precinct, to where the three apprehended were transferred, proceeded to a detailed inspection of the belongings and it was thus possible to show that inside the aguayo there was a UZI machine gun, with three chargers, in addition to a 9-millimeter pistol charger, 29 9-millimeter cartridges. Three cell phones and the vehicle in which they were transported were also seized.
The Vice Minister of Fight Against Smuggling, General Daniel Vargas Carrasco, indicated that In recent months, the conditions of violence in which smugglers operate have increased, referring to the arrest of armed guards when two trucks with contraband merchandise were seized.
