The Metropolitan Police of Bucaramanga detained eight people in six procedures in Bucaramanga, Floridablanca and Girón.[1] Officers of the GOES, the police Special Operations Group, captured a 21-year-old man in Villalcázar in La Cumbre, Floridablanca.[1] Officers captured a 31-year-old man in La Universidad in Bucaramanga.[1] Officers captured a 22-year-old man at kilometre 6 of the Bucaramanga-Girón road.[1] Officers captured a man and a woman on the Novena viaduct in Bucaramanga for receptación, receiving stolen goods, and recovered a motorcycle reported stolen days earlier.[1] Officers captured another 22-year-old man in Aguas Claras in La Cumbre after finding a revolver and three .38 cartridges in a bag without a carry permit.[1] Officers captured two men aged 33 in Bellavista Sector C in Floridablanca after the community reported shots in an establishment open to the public.[1] All eight detainees were placed at the disposal of the competent authorities to answer for the attributed offences.[1]

In Villalcázar police found 210 artisanal cigarettes, 210 sealed bags of portioned marijuana and another sealed bag of marijuana.[2] In La Universidad police found three sealed bags of marijuana and 300 artisanal cigarettes of the substance.[1] At kilometre 6 police found four sealed bags holding more than two kilos of marijuana on a motorcycle passenger.[1] Across the sweep police reported seizures of marijuana, two firearms, ammunition and the recovered stolen motorcycle.[1]

Officers approached the Villalcázar suspect during patrol, registration and control work after seeing him in a wooded area and searched him.[2] In Bellavista officers found no weapons on the men but found a .38 revolver with five cartridges, four of them fired, hidden on a wall above the establishment bathroom.[1] One Bellavista detainee known as Robotina has entries in the SPOA, the accusatory criminal records system, for theft, drug trafficking, illegal weapons, injuries and domestic violence, which are not convictions.[1] The man held on the viaduct wore an Inpec, the prison authority, electronic bracelet while serving house detention and was also held for prisoner escape after a guard recognised the motorcycle as his.[1]