This Monday, members of the Operational Strategic Command found a clandestine underground tank in the Píritu municipality of Falcón state, from which they extracted 14 sacks with 333 panels of cocaine, a total of 366.56 kilograms according to reports.
The head of the Ceofanb Domingo Hernández Lárez specified that as a result of the intelligence work of Detachment 132 of the Bolivarian National Guard, the Rural Command Detachment 13-2 and the Regional Anti-Drug Intelligence Unit 13, they obtained the cache that represents the second largest quantity of drugs in the entity.
“The FANB and citizen security organizations in a frontal fight act against all those who vilely try to transfer drugs through our territory,” he said in a message posted on the social network Twitter.
Within the Manos de Hierro plan so far this year a total of seven seizures have been carried out in the municipality of Píritu, in which drug traffickers have been robbed of 1,019 panels of cocaine weighing 1,131,323 kilograms.
Ammunition for weapons of war was also found in said procedure. The report mentions 1,500 7.62x.39mm caliber cartridges, 62 7.62×51 caliber cartridges and 78 .5.56mm caliber cartridges.
Both Vice Admiral Irwing Pucci Espín, head of the Falcón Integral Defense Operational Zone, and Brigadier General Miguel Morales Miranda, Secretary of Citizen Security, expressed that they remain alert to new blows to drug trafficking.
