Three women linked to the Tancol groups (Colombian Drug Trafficking Armed Terrorists) were captured by agents of the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB), according to military sources.
The women, imprisoned in border entities, provided logistics to the aforementioned irregular groups, which included supplying them with war materials, according to the source.
One of those captured is identified as Aranza de los Ángeles Prieto Parra, who was detained in the Campo Elías sector, Almirante Padilla municipality (El Toro), Zulia.
Sixty 7.62 x 39 mm caliber cartridges destined for rifles and telephone equipment were seized from this woman. Aranza had links with Luiggi José Navas Vílchez (El Luigy), a member of the criminal organization El Oso, which operates in various areas of Zulia.
The detainee was handed over to the Public Ministry where they opened a procedure for ammunition trafficking and collection of vaccines, among other crimes.
In Táchira, the military detained Dominga Antonia García Mancilla (Lucy), in the Naranjales del Piñal sector, Fernández Feo municipality of the aforementioned border state.
This woman is designated as a cooperator of the Tancol group that operates in the Tres Esquinas sector, José Antonio Páez municipality (Guasdualito), limits of Táchira and Apure. Her mission was to act as an informant in the towns of Piñal and Naranjales (Táchira) for individuals known by the aliases of William and Jaime, leaders of the irregular group.
And in La Macanilla, Pedro Camejo municipality (San Juan de Payara), Apure, Carmen Orielys Cancino Espinoza was apprehended, from whom a micro SD card with images of Tancol groups based in that area was seized.
unauthorized track
In another procedure, an unauthorized runway located in the Bartolomé de las Casas parish, Machiques de Perijá municipality, Zulia state, was disabled. The structure was approximately 2,400 meters long and 25 meters wide.
For the destruction of the runway, the military used explosives and heavy machinery, with which they made 32 transverse openings in order to achieve the flooding of it, as explained in the military report.
The aforementioned aerodrome was used by the Tancol groups for drug trafficking from Colombia, according to the investigations. The Prosecutor’s Office was informed of the proceedings.
