Santa Barbara, Honduras
During an operation of the Criminal Investigation Bureau (Atic) and the public prosecutor’s office against drug trafficking in the hidden compartment of a pick-up vehicle.
Agents San Pedro Sula and Tegucigalpa moved to the Santa Bárbara area, where they tracked down the vehicle in which they would be transporting a drug shipment.
Yesterday morning the officers found the vehicle after a chase.
In the middle of the operation, Atic the principal of a Santa Barbara high school detained.
Before the arrest, people came out to defend the teacher, but she was taken to the police where she took her statement and then she was released.
Jorge Galindo, spokesperson for the Atic, explained that the teacher was in her car in the midst of the chase of the suspected vehicle and came between the other vehicles several times, for which she had to face this attitude, “since she did not leave with other people who are the suspect”.
It was reported that the agents were continuing their work and managed to seize the white Mazda BT 50 pickup car, PCN 7773 license plates, and detain the driver identified as Wilson Ariel Rodríguez Álvarez (29 years old).
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Another tourist vehicle was also seized and the inspection was to be carried out, and the pick-up and driver were taken to San Pedro Sula to inspect the vehicle. The officers inspected the car on the premises of the prosecution service in the La Puerta district.
In a hidden compartment at the bottom of the pan, the officers discovered the medicine packages marked with the initials TXL. They counted 99 pounds of cocaine coming from San Pedro Sula to the area Santa Barbara.
According to information provided by anti-drug agents, the shipment comes from a criminal group operating from the north and making the transfers west and then taking it to Guatemala on its way to U.S.
After counting the drug, the prosecution would bring the charge against the driver of the vehicle carrying the drug to the judge.