August 17, 2024, 8:55 AM
August 17, 2024, 8:55 AM
After a rain and land search, the agents of the Mobile Rural Patrol Unit (Umopar) Chimoré Two mega-laboratories for crystallizing cocaine were found that They produced up to 200 kilos daily of this controlled substance and that were located in the middle of the jungle of the province Chaparein Cochabamba.
The two mega laboratories were located in the town of San José de Acosta del Villa Tunari municipality, in Chaparé, where the police arrived after a rain patrol on the Muleto River.
The Vice Minister of Social Defense and Controlled Substances, Jaime Mamani, indicated that in The laboratories employed between 20 and 30 people. and had a daily production capacity of 150 to 200 kilos of cocaine hydrochloride.
“These laboratories had a daily production 150 to 200 kilos of high purity cocaine. In addition, they had all the areas for crystallizing cocaine paste: the diluting, serving and filtering area, known as the discotheque, and the ether distillation area, commonly called the dead area,” he explained.
Mamani indicated that the laboratory infrastructures also had tool areas, light generators, bedrooms cwith capacity for more than 30 people, kitchen, dining room, storage areas for liquid and solid substances, and bathrooms with showers.
One of the laboratories It was valued at $350,000 and the other at $200,000, so when they were destroyed $550,000 was affected by drug trafficking, as reported by the vice minister.
