The Nicaraguan National Police reported this Monday that they found 77 kilos of cocaine, valued at 1.9 million dollars, in the municipality of Jinotepe, near the Nicaraguan Pacific coast, and that they did not arrest anyone linked to the stash.
The cocaine shipment was found inside a van parked in a public parking lot, where it would have been abandoned by the person who was transporting it, the second head of the Judicial Assistance of the National Police, Victoriano Ruiz, told reporters.
The police chief explained that law enforcement officers gave chase to that truck, because the driver, whose identity is unknown, ignored a stop at a police checkpoint.
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The driver managed to escape, but the drug was found inside the truck parked in a public parking lot in Jinotepe, according to the police version.
The Policeman of Nicaragua made this seizure as part of the permanent strategy called “Containment Wall”, whose objective is to prevent the circulation of drugs in population centers, with the cooperation of the rest of the countries of Central America and the Caribbean, the United States, Mexico and Russia.
Nicaragua is geographically located in a corridor of high drug trafficking, which is produced in South America and then transferred to North America, where the Mexican cartels mainly operate and the largest consumers reside.
