Thank goodness Honduras.
The authorities were seized yesterday 26 bales with 819 kilos of cocaine on a speedboat in the coasts of Honduras, while in another operation they found 60 kilograms of the drug hidden in a truck in San Pedro Sula.
The 879 kilos of cocaine seized is the result of operations by the Technical Criminal Investigation Agency (Atic) and the Honduran Naval Force.
After receiving alert information, teams of the Naval Force intercepts in Punta Gorda, thank God the boat in which four men of Venezuelan nationality and one Colombian traveled.
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The detainees were identified by the names of Jesus Ramón Montaño Carreño, Francisco Javier Romero, Jairo Ismael Barreto Rosas, Julio Rafael Ramos Miranda and Júnior David Boada Farfán, who will be charged with the crime of heavy drug trafficking.
Yuri Mora, spokesman for the Public Prosecution Service, reported that Atic received information from other authorities and was able to intercept the boat on the high seas.
Anti-drug officials said the shipment came from Venezuela and would be delivered to the Bay Islands to a group of Honduran drug traffickers who would take it to the shores of Mexico.
Apparently the group of drug traffickers was going to transfer the 26 bales of cocaine on the high seas, but they were intercepted by Navy soldier.
The boat was intercepted on Saturday and yesterday morning Atic officers inspected and transferred the bales to Tegucigalpa, where 819 kilos of cocaine was counted.
The packages were marked with the image of a red horse and R 35, that identifies the labs where they were made.
Truck
Another Atic team needed a truck with HAB 5259 plates yesterday morning, which was inspected by the prosecution in the La Puerta neighborhood in San Pedro Sula. After suspecting that he was carrying drugs, the officers disarmed the part of the pan and found a hidden compartment containing the 60 kilograms of cocaine. Each kilo was wrapped in red plastic and marked with the numbers 888.
The truck that loaded the 60 kilos of the drug came from Tocoa, Colón, and it was destined for Copán, where it was to be handed over to a group of drug traffickers whose goal was to cross the border into Guatemala and then into the United States.
Narcolaboratorio
The Atic along with the Force of Joint task Xatruch They destroyed a coca leaf plantation and a drug lab on a mountain in the Caracol area of Limón, Colón.
The destruction took place on Friday, March 5, after every plant of at least half a meter of growth had been uprooted.
The plants were burned, as were the chemicals found in a makeshift room where they were ready to process the coca leaf.
Another blow to drug trafficking groups operating in the northern area was carried out by the National Anti-Drug Police Directorate (DNPA) early in the morning of March 6 in Tulián, Omoa.
200 kilos of cocaine was seized in a truck and the driver was arrested and sent to prison.