26 kg of cripy marijuana found in paint drums on a Bucaramanga road
Police of the Bucaramanga Metropolitan Police's traffic and transport section found 26,000 grams of cripy marijuana packed in 48 parcels inside four paint drums on a parcel truck at kilometre 52 of the La Fortuna–Bucaramanga road. The shipment had come from Cali; no one was arrested and the marijuana was handed to the Attorney General's Office.
🇨🇴 Kilometre 52, La Fortuna–Bucaramanga road, Bucaramanga, Santander · Colombia
Police of the Traffic and Transport Section of the Metropolitan Police of
Bucaramanga found 26,000 grams of marijuana hidden in four paint drums in a
parcel truck, in an operation on the La Fortuna–Bucaramanga road at kilometre
52.[1]Inspecting the vehicle, officers found four paint tubs and inside them
48 packages of a substance that by its characteristics resembles cripy
marijuana, a pressed, stronger-smelling variety.[2]
Major Carlos Ernesto Vergara Vélez, head of the Mebuc traffic police, said the
drug was pressed and meant to supply the Bucaramanga metropolitan area.[1]The
parcel had been sent from Cali to the Bucaramanga metropolitan area.[1]Vanguardia reported that police had intelligence that the load was coming from
Cali and stopped the truck after an informant described it.[3]
No one was arrested, because the drug was moving as a parcel, and the marijuana
was handed to the Attorney General’s Office while investigators work to find
those who sent it.[3]Melodía en Línea reported that police said they would
keep investigating to secure the arrest of those responsible for the shipment.[4]
Photos and video
The four paint drums in which the marijuana parcels were hidden, photographed in the parcel truck after the inspection; the page gives no credit for the image.Photo details
The reports give no date for the inspection; the first accounts were published on 28 July 2023, so the seizure is recorded on 27 July 2023 as an approximate date.
Vanguardia and Q'hubo place the stop on the Bucaramanga–Barrancabermeja road at kilometre 32, while Alerta places it at kilometre 52 of the La Fortuna–Bucaramanga road; the Alerta account, which quotes the police officer, is used for the place and no single spot is treated as confirmed.
Vanguardia says the officers were alerted by an informant, while Alerta's police quote speaks of controls in prevention areas; both descriptions are of the same stop.
Whether the 26 kilograms is a laboratory weight or a police figure is not stated, and no street value was published.
The drug is described as resembling cripy marijuana partly, and as marijuana when weighed; no laboratory confirmation was reported.
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