September 6, 2024, 4:12 PM
September 6, 2024, 4:12 PM
The Intelligence and Special Operations Group (GIOE), which depends on the Special Force to Fight Drug Trafficking (Felcn), detained a truck carrying 84 kilos of cocaine camouflaged inside the fuel tank.
The operation was carried out on Thursday night on the Bioceanic Highway, near the Ipias community that belongs to the municipality of San José de Chiquitos in Santa Cruz.
Felcn agents detained the Volvo truck with license plate 1201-RUY at a mobile checkpoint and during the inspection it was found that One of its fuel tanks had been tampered with to traffic controlled substances.
From inside the tank, the police They took out 80 brick-shaped packages containing 84,050 kilograms of cocaine paste, which were supposedly going to be taken to the border with Brazil.
A van was also intercepted in this operation. Toyota Hilux which served as the ‘spearhead’, That is, he was driving in front of the truck in order to warn about anti-drug operations.
The police arrested three occupants of the two vehicles who were identified as Aurelio JO, Seferino NF and Ángel RA, who They have already been placed at the disposal of the Public Prosecutor’s Office.
