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There are four detainees after an operation in which the aircraft carrying the cargo was intercepted; one of the detainees is injured
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December 17, 2022 at 12:03
In the early hours of this Saturday it was a plane carrying a drug shipment was intercepted in Salto. The police operation, which took place near the Termas del Arapey, ended with four people arrested, and the seizure of little more than 400 kilos of a substance that is presumed to be cocainealthough justice hopes to confirm it after studies are carried out.
As reported to The Observer research sources, During the operation, the police fired at the engine of the plane, and one of the shots wounded one of the people on board in the leg.for which she was hospitalized after her arrest.
In addition to that injured person, There are three other detainees. The case is now in the hands of the prosecutor Mónica Ferrero, who will begin the investigations this Saturday, and it is expected that the people involved will be formalized on Sunday.
According to El País, in addition to the drugs and the plane, two trucks were seized that were intended to be loaded with what was being carried in the plane, whose pilot and co-pilot are of Bolivian origin.
“The fight against drugs has no truce and is the mother of all battles,” said the minister
The Minister of the Interior, Luis Alberto Heber, congratulated the troops who participated in the procedure and said: “The fight against drug trafficking has no truce and is the mother of all battles. We will continue giving it up for a more secure society.”
I congratulate the members of the DGRTID and La Republicana for the procedure that allowed them to neutralize a small plane and seize a shipment of 443kg of cocaine.
The fight against drugs has no truce and is the mother of all battles
We will continue giving it for a safer society. pic.twitter.com/drdnbtn12p— Luis Alberto Heber (@Luisaheber) December 17, 2022
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