A total of 3,77 kilos of marijuana were seized on the eastern coast of the Pico de Zamuro sector, 88 miles from the Silva municipality (Tucacas), Falcón state.
Details of the procedure were released by a video posted on the Instagram account of the Bolivarian National Armed Force Operational Command (CEOFANB). In a text that accompanies the audiovisual material, it is explained that the cargo was transported in an artisanal manufacturing rock, which was intercepted by a police-military commission.
When the respective inspection was carried out, the officials located 114 white bags content of the 3,077 kilos of marijuana deposited in panels with the inscription ” Pepe ”.
During the procedure, eight people were detained, which were placed at the order of the Public Ministry. In addition, the rock, five outboard engines and five cell phones were seized.
In the video broadcast by the CEOFANB, the moment when the officials intercept the boat and subsequently proceed to order the marijuana panels. This procedure is inspected by the director of the Cicpc, Douglas Rico, and the general commander of the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB), Elio Estrada Paredes, as seen in the post -posted images.
In this procedure, officials assigned to the GNB, Bolivarian National Police (PNB), Coastal Surveillance Division (13 and 41), Regional Anti -Drug Intelligence Unit 13 and Special Operations Group (GOE) participated.
Similar figure
A similar drug figure was also seized in Falcón, as reported by the Interior Minister, Diosdado Cabello, on July 16. In that case, 3,75 kilos of cocaine were confiscated that also transported in a boat that moved through San Juan de los Cayos, Eastern Coast of the Falcón state.
Minister Cabello said that in that procedure they arrested four men of Colombian nationality.
” Officials of the security bodies traveling in boats detected these four citizens, who, in turn, transported the drug into a submarine, “said Minister Cabello.
The head of Interiors, Justice and Peace indicated that the money obtained by the sale of these drug cargoes is used to “ Financing conspiracies against the Bolivarian Government ”.
And more recently, Cabello reported the seizure of 273.5 kilos of cocaine that they transported in a vessel, which ran off the coast of Chichiriviche (Falcón). In that operation two subjects were arrested: one Venezuelan and another native on the island of Santa Lucía.
And in the Caja de Agua sector, Carirubana Municipality (Falcón), PNB agents arrested three subjects carrying 64 marijuana panels, according to report.
