Daniwilmer José Sandoval Caro and Wanger José Caro Ramírez were deprived of liberty for their alleged responsibility in the traffic of 38.6 kilos of amphetamines, in response to the Public Ministry’s request.
The stash was seized on August 2 by officials of the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB) at the point of attention to the citizen located in Vega de Aza, in the Torbes municipality of the Táchira state, he said press release of the agency.
According to the investigation, during the early morning of the aforementioned date of the GNB in security tasks, they gave a high order to a public transport unit that passed through the area in the San Cristóbal-Barinas sense in order to execute a routine inspection to the passengers and their respective equipment.
When they realized the situation, Sandoval Caro and Caro Ramírez took nerve attitude. In the review of their belongings, a total of 13 boxes wrapped in synthetic material were found, supposedly granulated tea content, whose gross weight was 38 kilos with 600 grams.
In that sense, it was detected that the content of the boxes was a pink and penetrating smell. After the tests performed, it was determined that it was the synthetic drug known as Tusibi (phenylethylamine). Product of the finding, both men were apprehended in flagrance to be made available to the Public Ministry.
The 11th Prosecutor’s Office of Táchira charged Sandoval Caro and Caro Ramírez, at the presentation hearing, for the alleged commission of drug trafficking and psychotropic substances in the modalities of concealment and transport; In addition to association. However, the 7th Court of Control in that Andean entity dismissed the first modality of crime.
Once the elements of conviction exposed by the fiscal representation, the aforementioned judicial agency in that Andean entity issued the deprivation of liberty against both men and ordered their temporary imprisonment in Detachment 215 of the GNB in La Pedrera.
Additionally, the telephone emptying of the cell phones found in the procedure in the procurement of more elements of criminal interest was agreed; as well as the blockage and immobilization of the bank accounts of the accused.
It was also temporarily prohibited to transfer, convert, dispose of, tax, transfer or mobilize furniture and/or real estate properties of the defendants in question.
