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On the morning of this Saturday, Colonel Ricardo Sánchez Silvestre, director of the Anti-Narcotics Police Investigations area, confirmed that in a coordinated operation with his counterparts in Honduras, and with members of the US Anti-Drug Agency, it was achieved immobilize an aircraft loaded with cocaine.
According to the officer, the transnational operation seized 272 kilos of cocaine and captured the pilot of the Cessna model 340A aircraft with registration number N69355.
Police from the Anti-Narcotics Criminal Investigation Unit managed to detect the movements of a network dedicated to drug trafficking, which would send an undetermined amount of cocaine through an aircraft.
This information is shared by Colombian police officers with their counterparts in Honduras, “who established surveillance and trace type monitoring and identified the aircraft from Venezuela“.
With that indication, the Hondurans activated the national security protocols and reacted “quickly deploying its special forces allowing the aircraft to be intercepted in a clandestine area 9 miles to the south, in a place known as Brus Laguna, where they managed to seize the alkaloid and capture a person in flagrante delicto“, said the Anti-Narcotics Police through a statement.
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Allowing to intercept the aircraft in a clandestine area 9 miles to the south, in a place known as Brus Laguna, where they managed to seize the alkaloid
the drug was valued at $ 3 million by the International Center for Strategic Studies against Drug Trafficking of the Anti-Narcotics Directorate.
Investigations are being carried out to identify the owners of the shipment, and the network that would receive the shipment in Central America.
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The Honduran Police praised Colombia’s work in cooperation and coordination in these interdiction operations that seek to affect drug trafficking.
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