Police in northern Bucaramanga arrested a 30-year-old man found carrying 230 grams of marijuana and 30 wraps of a substance derived from cocaine.[1][2] Officers of preventive patrol stopped him at the corner of carrera 1B and calle 23 norte in the north of the city.[1][2] The patrol and control operation was carried out by the National Police’s Grupo Fuerza Disponible (Available Force Group).[2] During the personal search police found a black airtight plastic bag holding the 230 grams of marijuana.[1][2] Police also found the 30 plastic wraps of the cocaine-derived substance, and seized all of the material.[1][2]

He was arrested in flagrancy for the offence of trafficking, manufacturing or carrying narcotics.[1][2] Brigadier General Miguel Andrés Camelo Sánchez, commander of the Bucaramanga Metropolitan Police, said controls would continue in different sectors of the city to counter local drug trafficking.[1][2] The detained man and the seized substances were placed at the disposal of the Attorney General’s Office, the Fiscalía General de la Nación.[1][2] The Fiscalía is to run the process and bring him before a judge who guarantees rights, who will decide his judicial situation.[1][2]