A load of 254 kilograms of marijuana was seized in Aipe, in the north of Huila, after the driver of the vehicle that was carrying the substance evaded a police control and escaped on foot.[1] The procedure was carried out on the Neiva-Castilla road, at the height of the municipality’s urban area, where officers of the Police’s Traffic and Transport Section were patrolling when they noticed a grey car whose driver reacted suspiciously.[1] According to the police report, the man accelerated and ignored the stop signal, then set off fleeing through several streets of Aipe.[1] The pursuit ended in a dead end, where the driver got out of the car and fled on foot into a forested area.[1]
Officers inspected the vehicle and found 94 packages wrapped in vinyl (vinipel); 40 were covered in black material and 54 in transparent plastic, and inside was a plant substance with characteristics similar to marijuana, weighing 254 kilograms in total.[1] In addition to the load, the Police also seized the car used to transport it.[1] Both the vehicle and the seized substance were placed at the disposal of the Prosecutor’s Office in Aipe, which will carry out the corresponding judicial proceedings.[1] For the time being the authorities did not report the capture of the driver, who escaped during the operation, and no details were known about the load’s origin or its destination.[1]
