Three Nicaraguans and two Costa Ricans were captured in Colombia when they sailed in a boat for the Pacific with more than three tons of cocaine and marijuana that were seized, the Navy reported Monday.
The boat was located near Buenaventura, the main port of the Colombian Pacific, when it sailed in a “suspicious” way, and the authorities intercepted it after the fled. Inside, five crew members and rectangular packages and packages contained 1,204 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride and 2,215 marijuana were found inside.
Nicaraguans and Costa Ricans, whose ages range between 23 and 41 years, were presented to the Prosecutor’s Office to be prosecuted, the Navy of a statement said.
In a second operation carried out in the department of Chocó, in the northwest of the country, 786 kilograms of marijuana and 670 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride were seized in a deposit located in a wooded area of the municipality of Bahía Solano.
The narcotics seized in Chocó would belong to the Gulf Clan, the largest active cartel in the country, according to Colonel Andrés Varón Daza of the Marine Infantry in a video broadcast to the press.
According to the Navy, with the seizure of the 4.8 tons of cocaine and marijuana in the two parallel operations, revenues were avoided for more than 100 million dollars for drug trafficking structures in the Colombian Pacific.
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