The investigations of the Special Force to Fight Drug Trafficking and the Anti-Drug Prosecutor’s Office reveal that of the 66 sealed planes in the operation this past Sunday at the La Cruceña aerodrome, in the Cotoca area, several of them turned out to be the same ones that on July 30, 2019 also fell on that track in a mega operation with detainees and shooting. In that episode, everything was annulled by order of the then national head of the Felcn, Maximiliano Dávila Pérez, now a prisoner in the San Pedro prison in the city of La Paz.
After the operation this Sunday, 38 people were capturedSome 40 hangars were intervened and 66 light aircraft were sealed, in addition to the seizure of firearms, ammunition, equipment, satellite phones, vehicles and others.
The Controlled Substances Prosecutor’s Office, headed by prosecutors Freddy Guzmán and Carlos Candia, charged the 38 detainees with crimes of trafficking, conspiracy, criminal association and possession and carrying of firearms.
The Prosecutor’s Office concludes by requesting prison for all and specifies that some detainees even have accusations for an oral trial for drug trafficking. In its fundamental part, it specifies that three planes have their own history, since they already fell with drugs.
The drug planes released
In a precautionary hearing, in the Felcn room in front of the 38 arrested, the Prosecutor’s Office informed Judge Estrella Montaño, the history of these ships. These are license plates CP-2535, CP-2906 and CP-3084. Prosecutors assure that these ships were in hangars 8 and 11, and that according to investigations by Felcn reports they were already found with drugs.
CP-2535 was caught with drugs on a runway by Montero, He also fell with a shipment of cocaine during an operation in Santa Ana de Yacuma-Beni.
The same happens with CP-2906, which registers two cases of transporting loads of cocaine in Santa Cruz. The ship CP-3084 also appears to have been intercepted twice loaded with cocaine in Santa Cruz.
The investigations indicate that these ships, Curiously, they record in the Felcn report of case SC-X-611/19, which corresponds to July 30, 2019, a procedure that was annulled, with the change of reports and statements by order of Maximiliano Dávila Pérez.
Cloned and deleted license plates
The Prosecutor’s Office substantiated before Judge Estrella Montaño that in the La Crucena airfieldthat rules should be followed with lawful operations, flagrante delicto was incurred all the time.
Light aircraft with cloned and erased license plates were detected and thus they operated in drug trafficking activities.
In front of the judge, the prosecutors armed with reports made by Felcn agents, explained that some detainees already have a record, since they were arrested in previous mega-operations carried out at the aerodrome.
For example, Glober Soleto Guzmán and Luis Mauricio Lora Aguilera, the first defendant for an oral trial for a traffic offense, was on Sunday at the airport where he was detained. Luis Mauricio Lora Aguilera, is listed as detained in another operation at the aerodrome on November 21, 2019.
According to the Prosecutor’s Office and the Felcn, most of the 38 detained this Sunday at the aerodrome, They also fell in the mega operations of July 30, 2019 and November 21 of the same year.
Almost 5,000 liters of gasoline
During the action on Sunday, the Felcn and the Prosecutor’s Office seized 4,870 liters of gasoline of aviation in drums. According to the fiscal analysis, the fuel was manipulated to supply small planes for flights to clandestine airstrips transporting quantities of drugs, as well as precursors, food, and implements to crystallization laboratories.
This morning during the hearing, Judge Estrella Montaño ordered the arrest in Palmasola of several of the 38 people, including Glober Soleto Guzman and Luis Mauricio Lora Aguilera, the first already accused for an oral trial for trafficking, but who was free. All remained silent before the Prosecutor’s Office and the judge. For the Prosecutor’s Office, the evidence presented was overwhelming.